Published November 10, 2023
There is no place on earth like Gaza. Everywhere you look, there are people. Traders hawk produce on upturned plastic crates; old men lead donkeys through crowds, shopkeepers brew fresh coffee on iron stoves; and all around are children: running, playing, laughing and screaming.
Life here is relentless. People bellow at each other from apartment windows, file into mosques, argue in cafes and fire guns into the air when they marry.
Gaza is a strip of coastal land 25 miles long and, at its widest point, 7.5 miles across. It is home to around 2.3 million people, the majority of which are concentrated in small cities.
But beneath Gaza sprawls a 300 mile-long network of tunnels that criss-cross deep underground in all directions.
They form an entire subterranean world that is so vast it has been described as a ‘metro system’ – but one far larger than even the London or Paris undergrounds.
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SOURCE: www.dailymail.co.uk
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IDF troops in Gaza exposing an entrance to a Hamas tunnel, November 2023. (IDF/Screenshot)
Published November 8, 2023
Some 130 tunnel shafts in the Gaza Strip have been destroyed since Israel launched its ground operation last month to dismantle Hamas’s terror infrastructure in the Palestinian enclave, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.
Israel has vowed to destroy the terror group, which has ruled Gaza since 2007, following its surprise mass assault on southern Israel October 7, in which terrorists invaded and killed some 1,400 people mainly in their homes in civilian communities and at an outdoor music festival, amid shocking acts of brutality that they widely documented. Terrorists also took some 240 hostages of all ages, who are believed to be held captive in underground areas in Gaza.
Israel responded to the shock attack with widespread aerial strikes in the enclave and later a ground operation, during which troops of the Combat Engineering Forces have been working to clear routes for ground forces to maneuver, locate and destroy Hamas assets, including tunnels and rocket launchers.
Hamas is known to operate a vast network of tunnels underneath the enclave for smuggling goods and weapons, and moving fighters. Clearing and collapsing these tunnels has been crucial to Israel’s efforts to fight Hamas as it deepens and widens its ground offensive.
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SOURCE: www.timesofisrael.com
RELATED: Israel publishes ‘proof’ Hamas is hiding terror tunnels under hospital
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Published November 5, 2023
A hospital in Gaza funded by foreign Muslim donors was custom-built with tunnels for Hamas terroriststo use, Israel claimed on Sunday.
In a briefing to international media, Israel Defense Force (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari played video footage showing an underground entrance on the site of the Qatari-built Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani Hospital in Gaza City, which he said connects to the wide Hamas tunnel network.
Another clip shared by the IDF shows Hamas gunmen firing from inside the hospital at Israeli forces outside, Mr Hagari claimed.
“If it weren’t enough that we exposed a tunnel under the hospital, the terrorists also shot at our soldiers from within the hospital,” Mr Hagari said.
Mr Hagari claimed the IDF also had intelligence which revealed a tunnel network under the Indonesian Hospital – also in Gaza City. He added that aerial imagery showed rocket launchers a few dozen metres from the complex.
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SOURCE: www.telegraph.co.uk
