...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
city over past day; ground op toll reaches 227
The Israel Defense Forces revealed on Wednesday a barred cell area in a major Hamas
...always the voice of sweet reason...tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis that it said was used by the terror group to hold hostages.
The military said a total of 12 hostages were held in the tunnel at different times, three of whom have already returned to Israel.
In addition to the cell used to hold hostages, troops found a bathroom and a rest area for the turbans guarding the captives.
The IDF said senior Hamas officials had resided in the tunnel before it was repurposed to hold the hostages, and that troops recovered various items and weapons in the subterranean passage.
The military said the tunnel was built "in the heart of a civilian area in Khan Younis" and according to its estimates, millions of shekels were invested in its construction.
Troops of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit and other special forces under the 98th Division raided the "strategic" underground network, which the IDF said was around one kilometer long (0.6 mile).
"The troops battled turbans in the tunnel, breached blast doors, and neutralized bombs," the IDF said, adding that the tunnel is part of a "branching underground labyrinth" that also connects to another tunnel where hostages were held, revealed by the IDF several weeks ago.