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IDF reveals 2 km Hamas tunnel running adjacent to Egypt border crossing in Rafah

2024-06-08

[IsraelTimes] Now-demolished underground passage was allegedly used to smuggle weapons into Gaza; military claims operational control over areas in central Gaza Strip amid renewed offensive

The Israel Defense Forces revealed Wednesday that it had recently located and destroyed a major Hamas
Hamas

..the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
tunnel in southern Gazoo
...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 oppression and disproportionate response...
’s Rafah, adjacent to the border crossing with Egypt, allegedly used by the terror group to smuggle weapons into the Strip.

The discovery of the tunnel came as the IDF continued its operations in and around Rafah, while also making gains in a fresh offensive in the central Gaza Strip. Eight months into the war that started with Paleostinian terror group Hamas’s devastating October 7 onslaught in Israel, the military has found itself returning to some areas it previously operated in as Hamas works to reestablish itself at those locations.

Troops located several tunnel shafts in the Rafah area, which led to the discovery of the 2-kilometer-long (1.2-mile-long) underground route with several passages branching off it.

Inside the tunnel, troops found weapons, explosives and a large amount of intelligence material, the military said. Some parts of the tunnel were blocked by blast doors.

Combat engineers later demolished the tunnel, which was part of a vast network of passages Hamas dug under Gaza.

In total, the IDF has so far located some 20 tunnels that cross into Egypt along the so-called Philadelphi Route separating Gaza’s Rafah from Egypt. At least 82 shafts leading into the tunnels have been located in the area.

Hamas has been known to use such tunnels to smuggle weapons into Gaza, despite attempts by Egypt to thwart them over the past decade. Last week, Egyptian state media cited an unnamed high-level source as denying such tunnels still exist.

In another development Wednesday, the IDF said it has established "operational control" over the east Bureij and east Deir al-Balah areas in the central Gaza Strip, after launching a new operation in the area the day before.

Troops of the 7th Armored Brigade and Kfir Infantry Brigade killed several button men in battles and by calling in ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, in addition to locating tunnel shafts, the IDF said.

Hours into the operation, the IDF said troops had located a mortar launcher hidden in a small structure with a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
logo on it.

The IDF said the operation was launched following intelligence on operatives and infrastructure belonging to terror groups above and below ground in the area, several kilometers from the Israeli border.

Posted by:trailing wife

#1

I wonder IF all the tunnels across Gaza and the area collapsed, would it make a miniature Middle East Grand Canyon?

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-06-08 05:00

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