As Israel and Hamas appeared to maintain a humanitarian truce Saturday, the IDF released several videos documenting its activities in the Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge.
One video uploaded to YouTube showed troops at a Palestinian house located near a UN school, which had been rigged up with explosives.
“We went inside, the search dog and I, and we found eight bombs connected to each other,” a soldier says. The soldier points out that the house is right by a UN school.
Another soldier then shows explosives rigged inside the basement, masked to look like parts of a chicken coop. The mines are connected by wires throughout the home.
In another video, troops huddle by a civilian home as one of the soldiers points to a bomb by the house and says: “This is a bomb called a Claymore. As you can see Hamas uses the homes of the civilian population and places bombs inside them.”
He explains that a hole seen in the wall was made by Hamas to lure IDF troops to enter the home at that point and then detonate the device against them.
“This thing could take down half a platoon I think,” another soldier adds.
At the end of the video soldiers detonate the bomb safely.
