An IDF soldier stands near a military jeep on the Israel-Gaza Strip border. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen.
The Israeli military has destroyed three cross-border Hamas terror tunnels in recent months using “new and groundbreaking technology,” Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus — the head of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit’s international media branch — said in a video published on social media on Sunday.
“We are happy to be able to have those capabilities,” Conricus said.
This morning, the IDF completed the destruction of the third Hamas terror tunnel infiltrating Israeli territory in the past 2 months using the latest technology, intelligence, and operational capabilities pic.twitter.com/ZAh1biCjfN
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) January 14, 2018
In another video posted online by the IDF following its latest anti-tunnel operation, this one in the Kerem Shalom area, Col. Kobi Heler — the commander of the Gaza Division’s Southern Brigade — said, “Hamas is accountable for all terror activities emanating from the Gaza Strip and is responsible to stop any acts above and below the ground that breach Israeli sovereignty.”
Commander of the Southern Brigade in the Gaza Division, Col. Kobi Heler spoke on the destruction of the terror tunnel near the Kerem Shalom Crossing earlier today pic.twitter.com/IzkDCaTC2T
— IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) January 14, 2018
At a meeting in New Delhi on Sunday with Indian Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “But even where I am here in India, I think of you, IDF soldiers, and of the splendid work that you did yesterday in eliminating another tunnel. We are systematically eliminating the tunnel infrastructure of Hamas and Islamic Jihad; they should not try us.”
