In the last week, the fighters of the 401st Israel Defense Forces, together with the Yahalom forces, cleared and destroyed more than 100 terrorist infrastructures and eliminated more than 40 terrorists in face-to-face battles and aircraft strikes.

Among the terrorist infrastructures that were destroyed - several military targets of the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip, among them, a post used for the production of rockets and weapons of the terrorist organization Hamas and a post used for the production of long-range rocket missiles of the terrorist organization Islamic Jihad.

The fighters raided an underground combat management complex located under the Gaza river and designed to prevent our forces from crossing the river. Many weapons of the Hamas terrorists were found in the fighting compound.

During the operation, 17 shafts were destroyed, including offensive shafts. Also, the forces located a number of launchers and launch pits used by the terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip.

Before the troops entered the area and during the operation, the 215th Fire Brigade led the divisional fire plan and eliminated many terrorists. The forces of the brigade, fighter jets and air force aircraft attacked dozens of targets. The artillery units attacked terrorist infrastructures in the center of the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, the battle team of the Nahal Brigade has been carrying out operational activity in the area of the 'Central Gaza Corridor' for the past three months. The corridor is a space that separates the north and south of the Gaza Strip, from where the forces carried out targeted raids.

During the divisional operation this week, following preliminary intelligence, the forces eliminated terrorists with precision missiles and located many weapons, shafts and destroyed an underground route in the area.

So far, dozens of targeted raids have been carried out, more than 1,000 terrorists have been eliminated in the area, and more than 20 kilometers of underground route in the area of the corridor have been destroyed.

"We came here in an attack, in order to locate and destroy the enemy and enemy infrastructure, including underground infrastructure, production warehouses, manufacturing plants and some also launch areas that were aimed with rockets at the territory of the country," declared the 401st Brigade, Col. Bnei Aharon, "in the operation We have so far destroyed dozens of terrorists, we have destroyed underground and above-ground infrastructure, and we have destroyed dozens of rockets, including launchers and live rockets aimed at the country. We will continue to operate here until the mission is completed."

"Our forces located and found a number of combat tunnels of the Hamas organization," added Maj. Gen. 601, Lt. Col. Shimon, "these infrastructures that you see in front of you, which were used by the terrorists to go out and try to surprise our forces and attack them. We locate those infrastructures and destroy them We will not allow any infrastructure of the Hamas organization to exist. TKH 401 will continue to destroy the enemy and infrastructure wherever necessary."