"In the basement of the building, the troops located large quantities of weapons that were used by the terrorists there," added the military.
Additionally, soldiers located 10 long-range rocket launchers intended to fire projectiles into Israeli territory.
On Tuesday, Israeli forces in Gaza killed the Hamas terrorist who led the October 7 assault on the northwest Negev moshav of Netiv Ha’asara.
Israeli fighter jets struck a Hamas compound near the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, killing eight terrorists from Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion.
Among them was Ahmed Fozi Nazer Muhammad Wadia, a member of the terror group’s Nukhba force who led the invasion of Netiv Ha’asara, located directly adjacent to the Gaza fence.
On October 7, Wadia, who was active in Hamas’s parachute array, infiltrated the community using a paraglider and oversaw the massacre of 21 residents and kidnappings.
