Weapons depot in Gaza
Israel’s army claims to have found explosive belts for children
December 24, 2023, 11:07 a.m
The Israeli army says it is concentrating its offensive operations on the south of the Gaza Strip. In the north, the armed forces discovered a Hamas weapons depot. In addition to grenades and secret service documents, there are also said to be weapons specifically for children.
The Israeli military says it has found explosive belts adapted for children in a weapon depot belonging to the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip. As the army announced this morning, the weapons depot was located in a civilian building in the north of the sealed-off coastal area, which is adjacent to schools, a mosque and a clinic. In addition to the explosive belts, dozens of mortar shells, hundreds of other grenades and intelligence documents were also found in the weapons depot.
Over the past day, the armed forces have again attacked around 200 targets across the Gaza Strip on the ground, from the air and from the sea, the army said. A whole series of terrorists were killed. The troops also found dozens of grenades, explosives and other weapons in the hotly contested city of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza.
According to its own statements, the Israeli army is currently intensifying its offensive against the radical Islamic group Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip. After the city of Gaza, “we are pivoting south and we are concentrating our main operations on another Hamas bastion, Khan Yunis,” Israeli military spokesman Jonathan Conricus told US broadcaster Fox News. Fighting in the north would continue, “perhaps with less intensity.” The Islamist Hamas reported new attacks on Sunday. Jabaliya and the city of Gaza in the north and Khan Yunis in the south were hit.
The war was triggered by the worst attack in Israel’s history, carried out by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist groups on October 7 near the border with the Gaza Strip. As a result, more than 1,200 people were killed on the Israeli side. Israel responded with massive air strikes and began the ground offensive at the end of October. According to the Hamas-controlled health authority in Gaza, more than 20,000 people have been killed in the coastal area since then. With this number, which cannot be independently verified, Hamas does not distinguish between civilians and fighters.