IDF: Air and ground troops attacking in Gaza Strip

Over 750 Hamas targets have been hit since the beginning of Operation Guardians of the Walls.

ANNA AHRONHEIM

MAY 14, 2021 00:31

IDF air and ground troops attacked in the Gaza Strip Thursday night, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit reported. The Israeli military has struck over 700 Hamas targets since Operation Guardians of the Walls began on Monday, including senior commanders and attack drones launched by the terror group.

In the four days since Operation Guardians of the Walls began, an operation which is 95% airstrikes, over 700 Hamas targets have been hit by the Israeli Air Force and 60 operatives including senior commanders, have been killed.

The opening strikes by the IAF included key Hamas infrastructure which according to the military will affect the terror group for years to come.

Some 60 Hamas operatives have also been killed including 10 senior commanders since the operation began on Monday. According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 103 Gazans were killed on Thursday, and 580 were injured.

On Thursday morning the IDF bombed government targets, Hamas’s central bank, a force that the Israeli military said belonged to the terror group’s navy unit as well the home of Iyad Tayeb, a top Hamas commander who oversaw a number of battalions. The IDF said that the home was being used for terrorist purposes.

“The organization is losing everything,” IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman told reporters on Thursday morning.

“Tonight we started destroying government targets in the Gaza Strip, such as central banks and internal security buildings. Hamas is beginning to discover cracks and there is pressure in the organization, even among the Gaza public who is losing its patience and sees these ruins on the eve of the [Eid al-Fitr] holiday,” he said.

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