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Live updates: Israel-Hamas war, Rafah invasion looms as Israel battles Hamas in the north
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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that the operation in Rafah remains limited in scope, while it continues operating in two other parts of Gaza.
IDF International spokesman, Nadav Shoshani, told CNN during a briefing Thursday that the operation in the eastern part of the southern Gaza city, which began ten days ago, remained “limited in space and in targets.”
“We’re operating in specific places according to our intelligence, and where we know Hamas are hiding,” Shoshani said.
The operation was aimed at locating tunnel shafts operated by Hamas and had recovered “ammunition of many types,” including anti-tank missiles. He said “more than 100 terrorists” had been killed.
While a broader offensive has been long expected in Rafah, Israel is battling elsewhere in Gaza to prevent Hamas regrouping.
Shoshani said operations were continuing in Jabalya, in northern Gaza, and in Zeitoun, in central Gaza.
He said the deaths of five Israeli soldiers on Wednesday night in Jabalya – in Israeli tank fire – came amid fighting in a “dense, very complicated area.”
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