The tunnels of death: Inside Hamas’s underground passages used to move weapons and ambush Israeli forces - who are now obliterating the network with airstrikes
Israel Defence Forces have long been trying to destroy the tunnels in the Gaza Strip that appeared after 2007
Apparently tricked Hamas into sending fighters into the tunnels then bombed them, killing many militants
Network was used by Hamas in 2014 Israel-Gaza war to enter the Jewish state, ambush soldiers, and return
First tunnels were built into Egypt to bypass the Israeli blockade of Gaza, had pivoted towards Israel by 2014
The passages, which Hamas claims are for defence, now branch dozens of kilometres through the Gaza Strip
Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel s military correspondent.
Some 160 aircraft flying simultaneously conducted a massive attack on a network of tunnels dug by the Hamas terror group under the northern Gaza Strip around midnight Thursday in the largest Israeli strike since the outbreak of fighting earlier this week, the military said Friday.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, in this air campaign, which lasted nearly 40 minutes, some 450 missiles were dropped on 150 targets in northern Gaza, particularly around the city of Beit Lahiya.
The military said it was still working to determine the extent of the damage caused to the underground infrastructure, which IDF Spokesperson Hidai Zilberman told reporters was a “strategic asset” to Hamas, and the number of terrorist operatives killed in the strikes.
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