IDF targets UNRWA headquarters used by Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists

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Palestinian security forces loyal to Hamas stand guard at the Rafah border crossing, in the Southern Gaza Strip on January 8, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) launched counterterrorism strikes in Gaza over the weekend. The groups made it clear that they were targeting both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) operatives, who were using United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters. One particular strike was reported to have eliminated a Hamas sniper who took part in activities against IDF troops.

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This latest strike on an UNRWA facility comes two and four days respectively, after smaller-scale IDF attacks against structures from which terrorists operated in the Al-Jaouni School in Central Gaza, and also the “Alqahirah” School in Al-Furqan and the “Musa” School in Daraj Tuffah. With the expansion of operations it means that there are four main areas of kinetic action in the Gaza Strip; Rafah, Netzarim, Shejaiya, and Gaza City.

Of the former, the IDF said in a post on X, “This location served as both a hideout and operational infrastructure from which attacks against IDF troops operating in Gaza were directed and carried out.”

“Hamas continues to systematically violate international law by exploiting civilian structures and the civilian population as human shields for its terrorist attacks against the State of Israel,” it added.

Later in the day Monday, the IDF again called on Palestinian residents in several central Gaza City neighborhoods to relocate to the humanitarian zone. The military’s Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee published a list of zones that needed to be evacuated in conjunction with the announcement. There are three humanitarian zones; an area on the southern Strip’s coast, in the western neighborhoods of Khan Yunis, and in central Gaza’s Deir al-Balah.

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