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2025-08-21 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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IDF says troops repelled rare large-scale attack in south Gaza; 10 gunmen killed
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Courtesy of Skidmark [IsraelTimes] At least 18 Hamas fighters try to raid army encampment in Khan Younis; 3 soldiers hurt; military thinks the gunmen sought to kidnap troops
A cell of at least 18 Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
operatives attempted to raid an Israel Defense Forces encampment in the Khan Younis area of the southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip on Wednesday morning, according to a military probe of the unusual incident.
Three soldiers were maimed, one of them seriously, in the attack, the IDF said.
The military assessed that the Hamas button men sought to kidnap troops.
According to a military probe, the attack began at around 9 a.m., with the operatives emerging from a tunnel in the south of Khan Younis and opening fire with machine guns and RPGs while approaching the army encampment.
Some of the button men managed to breach the encampment, where they exchanged fire with troops of the Kfir Brigade.
At least ten of the operatives were killed by the troops and in Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
s directed by the forces, while eight managed to flee back into the tunnel, according to the army probe.
The IDF released footage showing the airstrikes and efforts by troops to repel the attack.
"The troops identified more than 15 turbans who emerged from a tunnel and opened fire, including RPG fire, at the forces," IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin said in a presser.
"In the same incident, several turbans entered a building where our forces were residing, and the turbans were eliminated. We are investigating how this occurred, and will draw the necessary conclusions," Defrin said.
A clip circulating online showed the bodies of two button men in the army encampment, and another video showed a tank of the 74th Armored Battalion ramming into an RPG-wielding operative amid the attack.
The maimed troops served with the Kfir Brigade’s Nahshon Battalion. One was maimed, and the other two are listed in good condition, according to the military.
The IDF said it was working to track down the remaining button men involved in the attack.
Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, took responsibility for the attack in a statement, claiming that its button men "stormed the site" and carried out a suicide kaboom.
Al-Qassam claimed to have targeted several tanks with bombs and RPGs, and hit several buildings in the encampment being used by the IDF soldiers, using RPGs and machine-gun fire.
"A number of fighters stormed the houses and finished off a number of occupation soldiers inside from point-blank range with light weapons and hand grenades," the terror group claimed, despite no Israeli soldiers being reported killed in the incident.
The terror group also claimed to have carried out sniper fire that "fatally maimed" the commander of a tank, and that it carried out mortar shelling in the area "to secure the withdrawal of the fighters."
"Upon the arrival of the rescue force, one of the deaders let 'er rip among the soldiers, leaving them dead and maimed," al-Qassam claimed.
Hamas’s military wing said the attack "lasted for several hours," though according to the IDF probe, the incident was wrapped up in under an hour.
During the war, Hamas has repeatedly made exaggerated claims regarding its operations against IDF troops in Gaza.
The incident on Wednesday marked a rare case of a relatively large cell of operatives attempting to attack an IDF post. Last month, a cell of at least 12 button men tried to attack an IDF logistics road in Khan Younis.
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