The operation in the autonomous state of Jubbaland was carried out with the support of international partners, who carried out air strikes. The Somali army also seized weapons and military equipment, including BKM machine guns, RPGs and AK-47 rifles, as well as landmines that the terrorists had intended to use against civilians.
A huge military operation to recover a single Israeli body exposes a grim moral paradox: Precise forensics for the occupier, and mass graves and lost identity for the occupied and bombarded. To retrieve one body, the Israeli military mobilised a fleet of tanks, drones, and what locals described as explosive robots. They turned a neighbourhood into a kill zone, dug up approximately 200 Palestinian graves, and left four civilians dead in their wake.