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IDF: Hamas's Rafah Brigade Has Collapsed, Many Border Tunnels Neutralized
(Times of Israel) Emanuel Fabian - Hamas's Rafah Brigade has "collapsed" as a result of the ongoing IDF offensive in the city, military sources said Thursday. Hamas operatives were increasingly trying to escape from tunnels and flee north to the Israeli-designated humanitarian zone. IDF troops have been successfully ambushing the Hamas gunmen who have tried to flee. The IDF said it has killed more than 1,000 terror operatives in Rafah, and that many gunmen fled with the Palestinian population as the operation began. In the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border, IDF combat engineers have discovered dozens of tunnels, some of them cross-border. have been meticulously sweeping the entire border for tunnels while expanding the corridor by demolishing structures within about 800 meters of the border. While tunnels have been used for smuggling, military sources said that in recent years Hamas has been smuggling weapons above ground via the Rafah Crossing, which the IDF captured on the first day of the offensive in Rafah.