The IDF announced on Monday that it has destroyed 85% of the strategic tunnels in Khan Yunis.
The announcement came shortly after a parallel update that the air force had eliminated a terrorist squad less than 30 minutes after the squad fired rockets toward Hatzerim and Be'eri on Saturday.
All of this came as the IDF on Sunday launched its first full division level attacks in Khan Yunis in multiple weeks, having achieved general control in early February, and reduced military activities there to smaller scale attacks in recent weeks.
During the large operation in recent days, somewhere between 80 to a couple hundred Hamas terrorists were arrested, around 35-40 were killed, and several thousand civilians were evacuated.
Dating back to the late January invasion of western Khan Yunis, 1,200 Hamas terrorists have been arrested in that area.
Attacks carried out by Unit 89 commando units
The current area of fighting, the Hamed neighborhood, has around 120 buildings, almost all five stories, as well as mosques.
Attacks are being carried out by the Unit 89 commando unit, Unit 7, Unit 84, and others.
The IDF is providing unspecified direct aid to civilians as they are evacuated.
This aid is designed both to capitalize on the divide between Palestinian civilians and Hamas as well as in some cases to increase the motivation for Palestinian civilians to provide intelligence about Hamas tunnels, leaders, and Israeli hostages.
The IDF provided no new information about the hostages, and the latest impression is that most hostages are in Rafah, with some in central Gaza.
Leaked reports from the US about hostages remaining in Khan Yunis appear to be untrue.
Regarding tunnels, over 20 kilometers of Khan Yunis’s 140 kilometers of tunnels have been destroyed, but almost all of the strategic tunnels have been destroyed.
In terms of the medium level command tunnels and the least important tactical travel tunnels, the IDF has said in the past that it could take years to destroy all of them.
The Bislamach Brigade also continued its strikes in the town of Al Qarara, north of Gaza.
Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.