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IDF captures Hamas headquarters in Khan Younis, eliminates dozens of terrorists

Kfir, the largest and youngest brigade within the IDF, was accompanied in Gaza by engineering and air forces.

By Vered Weiss, World Israel News

The IDF reported on Monday that the Kfir Brigade captured Hamas headquarters in Khan Younis and eliminated dozens of terrorists.

Kfir, the largest and youngest brigade within the IDF, was accompanied in Gaza by engineering and air forces.

It captured the terrorist headquarters including a Hamas weapons factory.

The IDF located weapons of all kinds, including grenades and rockets.

On Sunday, The IDF entered the tunnel in Khan Younis which was 830 meters (half a mile) long, 2o meters (22 yards deep) with hidden explosives.

When they accessed a tunnel after a fight with terrorists, soldiers found child’s drawings, mattresses, caged cells, and other evidence of hostages being held on the premises.

In the area, they saw mattresses, caged cells, kitchen and food supplies, and a drawing that was made by 6-year-old Emilia Aloni who was freed in late November.

Inside the tunnel, conditions were humid with little air, and very dark with no sunlight.

The IDF spokesperson said, “We saw five caged cells where we believe up to 20 hostages were held at various times, without any daylight, hardly any air, a lack of oxygen, and terrible humidity.”

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Some of the hostages who had been held there were freed and others were moved to other locations.

Images from the tunnel show a makeshift kitchen, a water heater, a fan, water bottles, a toilet, and clothes belonging to hostages.

After the troops took photographs of what they saw, they destroyed the tunnel.

Last Tuesday, the IDF seized an office that belonged to a terror battalion commander in the southern part of the city.

The commandos found in the Hamas offices weapons, ammunition, grenades, and surveillance cameras, the latter of which they destroyed.

IDF soldiers neutralized terrorists in close combat when raiding the Hamas offices.