TEL AVIV, July 2 Israeli forces killed more than 900 fighters and commanders of the Palestinian Hamas movement during the operation in Rafah on the border of the Gaza Strip and Egypt, Herzi Halevi, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), said on Tuesday.
“I don’t want to take facts out of thin air, and we saw it with our own eyes «We counted more than 900 terrorists killed from the Rafah Brigade, including commanders, at least one battalion commander, many squad leaders and operatives,» Halevi said in a statement released by the IDF press service.
According to commander, the army's current efforts are focused on destroying terrorist infrastructure and destroying underground infrastructure, which takes time.
«So this is a long campaign… we don't want to leave Rafah with terrorist infrastructure intact,» Halevi said. .