The Israeli troops (IDF) announced on Sunday that they have discovered more than 800 tunnel shafts in the Gaza Strip since the ground offensive against the Palestinian organization Hamas began on October 27, the Times of Israel reported.
The Israeli military reported that about 500 of them have already been destroyed, either by detonating explosives inside them or by sealing them off.
The Palestinian organization Hamas said before the war in the Gaza Strip, now eight weeks old, that it had hundreds of kilometers of tunnels – a network comparable in size to New York’s subway system – for protection, which it uses and as an operational base.
This has made them prime targets for Israeli aerial bombardment, with armor-piercing munitions and army engineers using robots for mapping or explosive jelly, which can be spread in the tunnel passages.
“Tunnels in schools, mosques and playgrounds”
“The shafts of the tunnels were located in civilian areas, many of which were located near or inside buildings such as schools, kindergartens, mosques and playgrounds”, says the army in today’s (3/12) announcement.
According to the IDF, many of the tunnels connect Hamas’ “strategic assets.”
The Israeli military said it had also destroyed hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, in addition to the wells.
Source: News Beast
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