The 98th Division has spent the previous few months conducting fight operations in Khan Yunis, Zeitoun, and Shejaia, destroying terror infrastructure, and killing terrorists.
The IDF’s 98th Division accomplished its actions within the northern Gaza Strip and is “now getting ready for added missions,” the navy confirmed on Thursday.
The 98th Division has spent the previous few months conducting fight operations in Khan Yunis, Zeitoun, and Shejaia, the IDF stated.
These operations have included destroying over 1,500 items of terrorist infrastructure, each above and under floor, and killing dozens of terrorists, in addition to inflicting “vital injury” to Hamas’s Shejaia Battalion, the navy said.
Among the many terrorists killed through the 98th Division’s operations have been a number of who participated in Hamas’s October 7 bloodbath.
IDF troops function within the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2025; illustrative. (credit score: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)
The 98th Division additionally participated in operations within the enclave’s Deir el-Balah, each from June 5-10, 2024 in addition to someday through the August 16-30, 2024, interval.
Does Hamas nonetheless have terror functionality?
Nonetheless, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer on Monday estimated that there are nonetheless roughly 20,000 Hamas terrorists within the Gaza Strip.
If Hamas nonetheless has 20,000 males, that would seem to point that it has made up for a lot of of its losses in 2023 and 2024, The Jerusalem Submit beforehand analyzed. It has misplaced many brigades and battalions, however continues to refill the ranks. The brand new recruits could not be capable of exchange the hardened terrorists who deliberate October 7. However, Hamas has not collapsed.
The IDF is constant counterterrorism operations within the enclave, together with in Khan Yunis, the place troopers on Tuesday seized terrorists’ weapons and destroyed a terror tunnel.
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Seth J. Frantzman contributed to this report.
