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JERUSALEM \u2014 It’s been a busy last few weeks for Israeli troops battling Hamas terrorists in the\u00a0Gaza Strip. In addition to uncovering large caches of munitions and complex tunnel networks snaking\u00a0beneath hospitals, U.N. facilities and schools, soldiers have located the luxury residential complexes that until recently were home to some of Hamas\u2019 most senior \u2013 and, apparently, most pampered \u2013 Hamas leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a neighborhood of homes belonging to Hamas leaders and very wealthy people,” Col. Elad Tzuri, commander of the IDF\u2019s 7th Brigade, told Fox News Digital in a phone interview from the neighborhood in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, roughly 2 miles from the Mediterranean coast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Khan Younis is the birthplace of many of Hamas’ most senior commanders, including Yahya Sinwar, its\u00a0top leader in the strip and the mastermind behind the Iranian-backed terror group\u2019s brutal Oct. 7 massacre against Israel; his brother, Mohammed Sinwar, who commands Hamas\u2019 southern brigade; Mohammed Deif, head of\u00a0the terror group\u2019s military wing; and Rafa\u2019a Salameh, Hamas Commander of Khan Younis Battalion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Recently, the IDF put a collective $1 million bounty on the heads of the four men, declaring them its most wanted. \u00a0<\/p>\n
ISRAEL’S MOST WANTED: \u2018BUTCHER OF KHAN YOUNIS,\u2019 OTHER HAMAS TERRORISTS NOW IN IDF’S SIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Tzuri, who reached the southern city with his troops days after the U.S.-Qatari-Egyptian mediated cease-fire with Hamas collapsed Dec. 1, told Fox News Digital, “In every house we entered, we found evidence of combat and\u00a0weapons. There was not one house without RPGs, Kalashnikovs, rockets and entrances to tunnels.”<\/p>\n The commander described the neighborhood, which also included vacation homes of other Hamas leaders, as “fancy.”<\/p>\n “The leaders lived here in very nice homes,” he said. “In the neighborhood where\u00a0I am right now, we found the home of Gaza\u2019s\u00a0deputy prime minister. It\u2019s a big and fancy house. \u2026.\u00a0They lived a fancy life here and were not ashamed of their wealth.”\u00a0<\/p>\n