“Israel now controls Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip,” announced the Israeli Defense Minister

Israel’s armed forces defeated the units of the military arm of Hamas in Rafah, at the southern end of the Gaza Strip, on the closed border of the Palestinian enclave with Egypt, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallad said yesterday, Wednesday 21/8, during the during his visit to his men in the field. “The (Hamas) brigade in Rafah was defeated and over 150 underground tunnels were destroyed” in that area, he assured. He added that he had ordered his troops to focus on destroying the remaining underground tunnels on the Gaza Strip’s border with Egypt in the near future. The Israeli military began ground operations in Rafah in early May, defying international outcry and concern for civilians, to destroy what its staff said were the remaining forces of Hamas and other Palestinian armed movements there. About 1 million displaced people who had taken refuge in Rafah have mostly left. On May 7, the Israeli army took control of the border crossing […]
Source: News Beast

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