IDF discovers October 7 training facility and launch point hidden in Gaza mosque - report - Jerusalem Post Staff

 

by Jerusalem Post Staff

Army Radio reported that the IDF uncovered detailed models of Israeli kibbutzes at the facility, which had RPG missiles hidden on site.

 

Israel Prison Service officers prepare Palestinian prisoners for release as part of a hostage deal between Israel and Hamas, at Ktzi’ot Prison in southern Israel, February 26, 2025

(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Hamas terrorists attempted to reach a weapons cache hidden within a mosque in an IDF-controlled part of the Gaza Strip on the same day as Hamas released the final living hostages from captivity, according to an Army Radio report on Tuesday. 

Army Radio reported that the group of terrorists crossed the Yellow Line, the perimeter to which the IDF withdrew following the implementation of the US-brokered Israel-Gaza ceasefire, before they were spotted by an IDF drone.

The terrorists were apprehended and detained by IDF soldiers before they reached the mosque, which is less than a mile away from the border fence opposite Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

Army Radio reported that the mosque had apparently been used as a Hamas headquarters and training facility. Searches of the compound uncovered detailed models of Kibbutz Sa’ad and Kibbutz Alumim. 

ועוד נקודה חשובה בהמשך לפרסום שלנו הבוקר: שימו לב לדגם של הקיבוץ שנתפס במפקדת חמאס בשג׳אעיה - מול מפת קיבוץ סעד האמיתית (באדיבות בן ציון מקלס).

לפי גורמים המעורים בפרטים, המחבלים לא החזיקו במפקדה רק בדגם של קיבוץ סעד אלא גם של קיבוץ עלומים.

ההערכה היא שמדובר באחד המסגדים שממנו… pic.twitter.com/UhVDv2G8DN

— דורון קדוש | Doron Kadosh (@Doron_Kadosh) October 28, 2025

IDF discovers Nukhba terror training facility

Intelligence materials assessed by the IDF indicated that the site “was one of the mosques from which the Nukhba terrorists set out on October 7, where they trained and studied their raid targets down to the smallest details,” Army Radio reported.

The IDF also discovered a cache of RPG missiles and other powerful weapons hidden inside the mosque.

In the weeks following this incident, Hamas has made multiple attempts to breach the Yellow Line and has fired at Israeli troops across the line, repeatedly breaching the ceasefire deal. 

The IDF has acted to reinforce the line and launched multiple strikes against Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday.

Jerusalem Post Staff

Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-871993

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