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By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
On Monday, Netivot police discovered an explosive device used by Hamas terrorists during their invasion of a southern kibbutz on October 7, 2023.
The device, clearly supplied by Iran, was found near Kibbutz Alumim, where heavy fighting took place during the invasion. Twenty-two Alumim inhabitants were murdered that day, including 20 workers from Nepal and Thailand. Hamas kidnapped Nepalese Bipin Joshi and took the body of murdered police sergeant Ran Gvili to Gaza.
Southern District bomb disposal experts neutralized the bomb.
Evidence has revealed that Hamas used sniper rifles, AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and anti-tank rockets from Iran, Russia, and China.
An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken since Hamas launched its October 7 invasion of Israel shows the terror group amassed a diverse arsenal of weapons from around the world, despite the 17-year blockade that was designed to prevent Hamas from securing foreign armaments.
“We are searching everywhere for weapons, for political support, for money,” Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad said in an interview with the AP, without naming the sources of the weapons.
Experts who reviewed the images identified distinguishing features that show where many of the weapons used by Hamas terrorists were manufactured.
In other news, WIN reported on Monday that Israel is giving Hamas an 11-day window to reach a deal with Israel for the return of the remaining 59 hostages held captive in the Gaza Strip. Otherwise, it will face the total takeover of Gaza by IDF forces, a senior Israeli defense official warned.
Before dawn on Monday, the Israeli security cabinet voted unanimously to approve a proposed expanded ground operation in the Gaza Strip dubbed “Operation Gideon’s Chariots.”
According to the senior Israeli official, the new operation was drafted on the basis of the Rafah Model, used by IDF forces during the occupation of the Rafah district of southern Gaza following the area’s capture in the spring of 2024.
Following the invasion of Gaza after October 7, 2023, the IDF has largely maintained a light footprint on the ground in Gaza, temporarily seizing areas in the Strip to clear terrorist infrastructure before withdrawing.
While the IDF maintained control over buffer zones on the periphery of the Gaza Strip, its presence has been sporadic outside of the Rafah area.
In yet other news, JNS reported on Monday that an IDF soldier died in an “operational car accident” near the Gaza border, the military announced on Monday morning.
Sgt. Maj. (res.) Dejen Daniel Sahalo, 41, from the central city of Rehovot, served in the 5067th Engineering Battalion of the Combat Engineering Corps, the military said in its official announcement.
A total of 854 IDF troops have been killed since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror invasion of the northwestern Negev.
On Sunday morning, the IDF announced that two soldiers were killed during clashes with Palestinian terrorists in the southern Gaza Strip.
According to an initial IDF probe, the troops were struck by a blast while inspecting the entrance to a tunnel located inside a building in Rafah.
On Friday, an IDF soldier died in a car accident during operational activity in the Golan Heights.
Sgt. Niv Dayag, 19, from Ramat Hasharon, served in the Paratroopers Brigade’s 890th Battalion. During the crash, two additional soldiers in the 890th Battalion and a soldier from the 474th Brigade were lightly injured. The circumstances of the incident remain under review.