IDF Eliminated Over 8,000 Gaza Terrorists Since October 7.

Amid reports that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has eliminated more than 8,000 terrorists after eleven weeks of campaign in Gaza, the military is closing in on Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar, Israel’s defense minister said.

“One thing is clear – Yahya Sinwar now hears the IDF tractors above him, the Air Force bombs and the IDF’s actions. He will soon meet the barrels of our guns,” Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared Friday. Sinwar, who is regarded as the key architect of the October 7 massacre, is believed to be hiding in southern Gaza as Israeli ground troops bring most of the Hamas stronghold in the north under their control.

The Israeli news website Arutz Sheva reported defense minister’s remarks:

Speaking at the conclusion of a daily assessment of the situation with senior members of the defense establishment, Gallant said, “The activity of the IDF and the defense establishment continues. In the north of the Gaza Strip – the operation is gradually completing the goals we set: Disbanding the Hamas battalions and denying their underground capabilities. We also operate in the Khan Yunis area and the south of the Gaza Strip, and we will operate in other places in the future.”

“One thing is clear – Yahya Sinwar now hears the IDF tractors above him, the Air Force bombs and the IDF’s actions. He will soon meet the barrels of our guns,” the Defense Minister vowed.

“We will go and deepen our activity and complete all our goals – first of all, the elimination of the Hamas terrorist organization, the denial of its military and governmental capabilities, and the return of the hostages to Israel,” Gallant added. “The operation will be a drawn-out operation, requiring patience, but we will reach an achievement.”

Since the Gaza ground offensive began on October 27, the IDF has rounded up hundreds of terror operatives for interrogation to Israel. “More than 200 Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist operatives apprehended by the IDF and ISA in the Gaza Strip over the last week were taken for further questioning in Israel,” the military disclosed in a press release on Saturday morning. “Overall, over 700 operatives from terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip have been taken for further questioning thus far.”

The Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported Saturday:

Security services have detained over 700 terrorists in Gaza and have transferred them for further investigation Israel

Israeli army reserve colonel Olivier Rafovitch on Saturday told i24NEWS that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has killed 8,000 terrorists affiliated with Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. 2,000 of those are said to have been eliminated since the end of the truce at the end of November.

700 were stated detained by the IDF and Shin Bet and transferred to Israel for further investigation in Israel. Israeli security services aim to obtain the intelligence on strategic targets in the Strip.

 

The actual number of slain terrorists could be even higher as Israeli soldiers and combat engineers continue to destroy hundreds of tunnel shafts running across the jihadist-ridden enclave. The IDF on Friday blow up a major underground terror complex in the heart of Gaza city.

“Israel has blown up what it says was a “subterranean terror city” underneath a central Gaza City square that was used to plot the October 7 massacre,” the British newspaper Telegraph reported Friday. “The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said it discovered “terrorist infrastructure” underneath Palestine Square, with lengthy tunnels connecting hiding places and offices belonging to Hamas’s senior military and political leaders.”