Soldiers suspected of looting homes during operation

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IDF forces search for tunnels used for smuggling arms near Khan Younis, but, according to seven Palestinian families, they leave with different kind of booty. Local residents report valuable gold jewels missing after soldiers stay in their houses. IDF Spokeson's Office: Only one complaint of this sort received

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"After operating a number of days east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Israel Defense Forces troops left the area. The IDF said that the operation was meant to locate tunnels through which the Palestinians are smuggling weapons with which to carry out attacks on Israeli targets.

Despite not finding even one such tunnel, local residents claim that the soldiers didn't leave empty-handed. At least seven Palestinian families claim that the soldiers looted jewelry and money from their houses.

Muhammad Abu-Dakka wasn't at home when IDF soldiers broke in by exploding the doors. He claims that after the soldiers left his house, he entered and found the words "dogs," "criminals," "murderers," "and other curses that I don't want to repeat" scrawled on the walls.

However, it turns out that this is actually the light damage. Like any Palestinian who hosted the army against his will, Abu-Dakka and his wife scoured the house to make sure everything was in its spot.

"The house was turned upside-down completely," he told, "but we started to look especially for the gold. In my mother's room we discovered that the gold in her jacket had disappeared. We found that some of my wife's clothes in which we had hidden gold were also missing."