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IDF finds tunnel under Hamas commander’s home in Khan Younis where about 20 hostages had been held
[IsraelTimes] The IDF releases images showing the inside of a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, in which Israeli hostages were previously held by Hamas.
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says in an evening press conference that an entrance to the tunnel was found in the home of a Hamas commander.
He says troops battled Hamas gunmen inside the tunnel, killing them. The tunnel contained explosive devices and blast doors, he says.
Hagari says that one kilometer in and about 20 meters below ground, the soldiers found a large room where hostages had been previously held.
Some hostages held there have already been released, he says, noting that the soldiers found drawings made by five-year-old Emilia Aloni, who was released in November.
The area had five holding cells, each with a mattress and a toilet, he says.
According to Hagari, some 20 hostages were held in the tunnel at different times.
“According to the information we have, in this tunnel 20 hostages were held, at different times, in difficult conditions without daylight, with dense air, little oxygen, and terrible humidity which makes it hard to breathe,” Hagari says.
“Some were released some 50 days ago, and others are held in Gaza, possibly in even worse conditions,” he adds.
IDF says troops destroy PIJ rocket manufacturing facility, rocket launchers in north Gaza
[IsraelTimes] The IDF says it has discovered and destroyed a number of rocket launchers armed with long-range projectiles in the northern 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 ...
Strip, along with a nearby rocket manufacturing facility belonging to the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
Troops of the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade and 179th Reserve Armored Brigade raided the Islamic Jihad rocket manufacturing plant in Gaza City’s Zeitoun neighborhood following new intelligence information.
The IDF says the soldiers located and destroyed dozens of machines, including lathes, and a large amount of chemical and kabooms used to manufacture rockets. It estimates that with the equipment, Islamic Jihad would have been able to build some 800 rockets.
Several rocket launchers, embedded in the ground with long-range rockets in them, were also located in the area and destroyed, the IDF says.
Hamas says 165 Palestinians killed in Gaza in last 24 hours; death toll at 24,927
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