Palestinians attempted to cross into northern Gaza during Iranian missile attack

On Tuesday evening, while Israel was ordering its citizens into safety shelters as the Iranian regime launched a ballistic missile attack, dozens of Palestinians attempted to cross the Netzarim Corridor into the northern Gaza Strip in southern Israel.

According to an IDF statement, soldiers “identified dozens of suspects moving toward troops operating in the central Gaza Strip and posing an immediate threat to them.” 

The IDF troops fired at the suspects, hitting several of them, at which point the Palestinians fled. No IDF troops were harmed in the incident. 

Palestinian media reported on the incident but did not give the number of wounded, only reporting that the injured were taken to Al-Awda Hospital in the Nuseirat camp. 

The IDF continued limited operations in the Gaza Strip this week, despite shifting its focus to Hezbollah in Lebanon. 

On Monday, based on IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were conducting operations inside a command-and-control center near Gaza City, in northern Gaza. The command-and-control center was embedded inside a compound that previously served as the Shejaiya UNRWA School, which was used by the terrorists to plan and execute terror attacks against IDF troops in Gaza. The strike was one of several in recent days targeting Hamas cells operating within school compounds.

Early on Wednesday, the IAF conducted precise airstrikes on terrorists inside Hamas command-and-control centers in the northern Gaza Strip. One operation targeted command and control centers, which were embedded inside compounds that previously served as the Muscat School and Rimal School. 

Another strike targeted Hamas terrorists who were operating inside a command-and-control center in a compound that previously served as the Al-Bureij Preparatory School.

The IDF stated that ahead of the strikes, “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence information.” 

“This is a further example of the Hamas terrorist organization’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure in violation of international law. The IDF will continue to operate against Hamas in defense of the citizens of Israel,” the IDF spokesman noted.

Over the weekend, the IDF destroyed a one-kilometer-long tunnel in the central Gaza Strip. Soldiers found weapons and lodging rooms inside the tunnel, which ran underneath residential buildings. After searching and mapping the tunnel, engineers from the Yahalom Combat Engineering unit destroyed it. 

As we continue to fight in a multi-front war, we are operating in Gaza in order to bring our hostages home and dismantle Hamas.

IDF troops discovered, mapped and dismantled an underground tunnel route that is approx. 1km long, embedded near residential buildings and civilian… pic.twitter.com/Y3DyDD4Jsc

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 29, 2024

At the time, the IDF announced its troops had destroyed about 80% of the tunnels in the Philadelphi Corridor.