Palestinian sources have confirmed that most members of Hamas’ “Iranian Unit,” a military wing trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, were killed in fighting in the Zeytoun quarters, according to an Israeli daily.

Haaretz reported Friday that the same sources had said that Iran was “preparing for an end to the fighting, at which point they want to send money to the Gaza Strip in order to assist Hamas in rebuilding destroyed homes - but also restore its military capabilities.”

The unit destroyed in Thursday’s attacks numbered approximately 100 men who had traveled to Iran and Hezbollah camps, mostly in the Bekaa Valley, where they were trained in infantry fighting tactics, according to the report. Most of them returned to Gaza through underground tunnels at the Rafah border crossing.

-NOW Staff