THE IDF has destroyed a Hamas monument that was constructed to glorify a lethal assault on Israel by the terrorists through the 2014 Gaza Battle.
Troops from the Golani Brigade’s thirteenth Battalion captured “Palestine Sq.” within the Shejaiya neighbourhood earlier than toppling the sick statue.
The sick monument was pulled down by Israel‘s well-known Caterpillar D9 which is named the world’s most indestructible bulldozer.
Famously referred to as “The Teddy Bear”, the 62-tonne monster bulldozer is nearly impenetrable to weapons and explosives – and has mine-proof armour that may deflect rockets
The “Palestine Sq.” is identical place the place Hamas terrorists paraded the launched hostages a number of weeks in the past through the “fragile truce“.
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari wrote on X, previously Twitter: “Golani’s fighters took over and destroyed a central sq. within the Shejaiya neighbourhood – the ‘Palestine Sq.’ – the place Hamas erected a statue glorifying the APC catastrophe from the ‘Tzuk Eitan’ operation.”
In the course of the 2014 Gaza warfare, seven Golani troopers had been killed after their armoured private service was hit whereas battling within the Shejaiya area.
Merciless Hamas reportedly captured the stays of one of many seven IDF troopers Sgt. Oron Shaul which they haven’t returned but.
After the lethal incident, the phobia Islamic terror group erected a monument of a giant fist punching by an APC, holding three canine tags, considered one of which had the identify of Shaul.
Lt. Col. Yuval Mazuz, the brand new commander of the thirteenth Battalion, stated: “We’re right here, the thirteenth Battalion, on the place the place the terrorist group Hamas erected a statue glorifying the catastrophe that occurred to the battalion in [Operation] Protecting Edge.
“We’re sending a transparent message to Hamas: We’ll come and destroy all such statues irrespective of wherever they’ve been constructed.”
The IDF’s destruction of the Hamas monument is a hark again to the toppling of the infamous Saddam Hussein statue in Firdos Sq., Baghdad through the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The occasion, which acquired international media protection, symbolised the tip of Hussein’s rule in Iraq.
In the meantime, the IDF says it captured a member of Hamas’ elite Nukhba forces and one other terror operative at a college in Gaza Metropolis’s Rimal neighbourhood on Friday.
They had been reportedly nabbed throughout a raid on the college the place Israeli troops killed “many” extra operatives, in response to the IDF.
The elite Nukhba forces had been those “ordered to kill everyone and burn their homes” within the October 7 massacre.