In mid-November 2018, a car carrying an Israeli army’s undercover unit operating in the Gaza Strip that was disguised as Palestinian humanitarian aid workers (with several of the male soldiers reportedly disguised as women), was stopped at a Hamas checkpoint, close to the Israeli border.
In the ensuing firefight, an Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed and another officer wounded, with seven Palestinians killed, including a Hamas commander. Escaping in their car toward the border with Israel, the surviving undercover soldiers were extricated by an Israeli helicopter. What was unique about this operation is that the Israeli undercover operatives had reportedly resided in Gaza unnoticed for several weeks prior to the conclusion of their botched operation.
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