The IDF provides updates on its ongoing operation against Hamas in southern

The IDF provides updates on its ongoing operation against Hamas in southern Gaza's al-Qarara, close to Khan Younis, where troops have targeted sites belonging to the terror group near Israel's border.

The raid is being led by the 7th Armored Brigade, alongside troops of the Kfir Infantry Brigade in advanced stages of training.

The IDF says the troops located and destroyed caches of weapons and several sites belonging to Hamas, killed numerous terrorist with tank shelling, and "neutralized the threat adjacent to the [border] fence."

Amid the raid, a Hamas weapons depot with a tunnel shaft beneath it was targeted in a helicopter strike, the IDF says.

Ahead of the operation, the IDF says the Air Force struck several sites and Hamas terrorist who were gathered at hideout apartments and near troops in the al-Qarara area.