2024-01-12 01:54:00
The Israeli army claimed in mid-December to have discovered “the largest underground tunnel” built by Hamas in Erez Pass, north of Gaza. This week images of the complex military infrastructure were released, which has a length of 4 kilometers, excavated 50 meters deep.
“This massive network of tunnels, which is divided into several branches, has an extension of more than four kilometers and reaches up to 400 meters from the Erez crossing point,” between Israel and northern Gaza, indicated the armed forces of the Jewish State. in a statement released on December 17.
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The international broadcaster RFI released this Thursday an audiovisual material that explore inside Hamas’ tunnel networkconsidered by Israel as a key to “dismantling the military capabilities” of the terrorist group.
Since then, destruction of the tunnel network built by Hamas is one of the objectives of the Israeli military offensive in that Palestinian territory.
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Israel began bombing and ground occupation of the Strip in response to the Hamas attacks of October 7, which left almost 1,200 dead and another 240 hostages. The Israeli Army responded with a military campaign in the Gaza Strip focused on the main militia structures in the enclave. The war conflict It cost the lives of more than 23,400 people.
According to a journalist from the agency AFP who was able to enter the discovered tunnel, it has canalization, electricity, sewage, ventilation and rail systems.
The Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas built a network of 1,300 tunnelswith an extension of regarding 500 kilometers, to circumvent the blockade that Israel imposed on the territory since 2007, according to an estimate by the Institute of Modern Warfare at the American Military Academy at West Point.
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