The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit has released a video depicting Tuesday’s gunfight between four Hamas terrorists who breached the Gaza security border and IDF soldiers. The terrorists entered Israel by sea and were on their way to Kibbutz Zikim, located roughly a kilometer and a half (around one mile) north of Gaza along the coast, when they encountered IDF forces from the Givati infantry brigade at a military base near the kibbutz. All four terrorists were eliminated in the exchange of fire, which took place amid the IDF’s counterterrorism Operation Protective Edge. The terrorist were spotted in the sea and IDF Soldiers were ready and waiting.
Thus far, its two attempts at infiltration have failed: the infiltration of Hamas frogmen via the northern beaches of Gaza, heading to Zikim; and the explosives-filled tunnel at Rafah. In the case of the Zikim attack, all five members of the Hamas terror cell were killed. Not long before, the commander of that Hamas unit, Muhammed Shaaban, and two of his aides were eliminated in an Israeli airstrike. As for the Rafah tunnel, Israeli intelligence managed to thwart an unusual attempted attack: Hamas had spent months, if not years, digging that tunnel, which was intended to enable dozens of armed Hamas terrorists to carry out simultaneous raids inside Israel on numerous targets, including civilians.
The paradox, the Catch-22, is that the absence of a “victory picture,” so frustrating for Hamas, is only encouraging its operatives to intensify their attempted attacks. Hamas TV and the Arabic satellite stations are celebrating the rocket attacks and the “raids” on Zikim and at Rafah, but Hamas’s military chiefs can be expected to continue to invest planning and effort in the bid for a successful mass terror attack on Israeli civilians.
Source: Arutz Sheva
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