Israeli military finds 'significant' amount of Hamas weapons and assets, including inside UNRWA headquarters

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) says that it recently launched raids on Hamas facilities and found a "significant" amount of assets and weapons, including inside a United Nations-affiliated building.

In a joint statement made with the Israel Security Agency (ISA), the Israeli military announced Saturday that the raids were conducted in northern Gaza over the past two weeks.

"The forces operated in the areas of Shati and Tel al-Hawa in northern Gaza," the joint statement read. "Approximately 120 Hamas terrorists were killed, and 20 terrorist infrastructure sites were destroyed as part of the operation."

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The IDF explained that the ISA initially led them to a tunnel shaft near a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

"The shaft led to an underground terror tunnel that served as a significant asset of Hamas' military intelligence and passed under the building that serves as UNRWA's main headquarters in the Gaza Strip," the IDF explained.

The Israeli military said that it seized a "wide variety of intelligence assets" while raiding the 700-meter-long tunnel, but did not specify what exactly was found.

"The newly-found intelligence will allow the forces to operate against additional Hamas targets," the IDF said. "The dismantling of the tunnel