Israeli army canines help put the bite on Hamas terrorists

They are Israel’s dogs of war.

The army’s canine unit is helping to map out Palestinian buildings before troops move in — and even take out hiding terrorists —  while wearing bodycams and climbing through holes too small for humans, newly released video shows.

Israel’s Oketz Unit, the military’s canine special forces, is dispatching its four-legged soldiers “in a large number of cases” to try to help save lives, the Times of Israel said in a report Sunday. 

“The dogs have located threats, mapped out buildings and discovered weapons,” Times of Israel correspondent Emanuel Fabian said on X. 

A canine named Toy was sent into a building in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood and discovered a passage between a building where IDF troops were stationed and a separate building where a Hamas gunman lay in wait, the outlet reported. 

In another close call, a military canine named Patrick was deployed with the 460th Armored Brigade in Jabaliya and was sent in to scout out a building before the troops moved inside. 

Patrick found and subdued a terrorist who planned to ambush the soldiers, Israel said.

Israeli footage shows the dogs, with pack lights and bodycams, climbing into bombed-out buildings all times of day over rubble and through holes in the walls too small for humans.

Other clips show the dogs leading troops up staircases or around blind corners in the buildings. 

Israeli troops moved into Palestinian-occupied Gaza after the Oct. 7 sneak attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists, an assault that killed about 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians.

Thousands of Palestinians have since been killed in the Israeli counter-offensive, which has also left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians homeless in Gaza’s borders.