RPG event in Palestine on Mon 18th December 2023

The IDF says troops of the Golani Infantry Brigade are engaged in “intense fighting” with Hamas’s Shejaiya battalion in the Gaza City neighborhood. According to military estimates, some 600 Hamas operatives have been killed by the IDF in Shejaiya over the past two weeks, 200 of them alone by Golani soldiers. The IDF says the Golani troops have also located and destroyed more than 10 tunnel shafts in the neighborhood. The soldiers also seized weapons and intelligence materials found in the homes of Hamas operatives. Combat engineers operating with Golani located and destroyed dozens of rocket launchers, including some near schools and cemeteries, according to the IDF. The IDF says the troops have encountered Hamas operatives opening fire, launching RPGs, and setting off explosive devices while using civilian buildings as cover in Shejaiya.