Israeli forces identified and eliminated two Hamas terrorists overnight Wednesday as they emerged from the Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. One of the terrorists was caught planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs)—retrieved directly from within the medical facility—along the designated “Yellow Line” security perimeter in an attempt to target operating forces. Immediately upon identification, troops engaged and neutralized both terrorists to eliminate the immediate threat.
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One of the terrorists eliminated in the precision strike was Muhammad Tammous, who served as an active sniper in Hamas’s military wing while concurrently operating as an employee of the Gaza Civil Defense, presenting himself publicly as a humanitarian rescue worker. The terrorists had recently coordinated a series of terror plots from within the hospital compound and worked to reconstitute military capabilities, systematically breaching ceasefire understandings.
The IDF reiterated that Hamas continues to cynically exploit hospitals and healthcare infrastructure across the Gaza Strip for military purposes in direct violation of international law. By converting humanitarian spaces intended for civilian medical care into staging grounds for terrorism and operational reorganization, the terror group places local civilians at direct risk. Southern Command forces remain deployed along agreed-upon lines and will continue to act decisively to neutralize imminent threats.