RPG event in Gaza, Sabra area, Palestine on Tue 4th June 2024

The military says it has wrapped up a week and a half-long pinpoint raid in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood, aimed at re-clearing the area of Hamas infrastructure and operatives.

Early this morning, combat engineers completed the demolition of a kilometer and a half-long Hamas tunnel in the area, the IDF says, before pulling back to the Netzarim Corridor.

The tunnel, 23 meters deep, passed close to the corridor where the IDF maintains a semi-permanent presence.

The raid in Sabra was led by the Yiftah Reserve Armored Brigade.

During the raid, the IDF says the reservists located two major rocket depots, as well as other weapons, including an Igla (SA-18) anti-aircraft missile launcher, considered to be a relatively rare model in the Gaza Strip.

The troops came under RPG fire amid the raid, and responded by killing the operatives with tank shelling and by directing airstrikes, the military says.

Dozens of gunmen were killed and some 70 sites belonging to terror groups were destroyed by the brigade, combat engineers, and in airstrikes, the IDF adds.