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Israel destroys largest Hamas tunnel found yet, nabs gunmen hiding among civilians

2024-03-06

[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it had completed destroying and sealing the largest Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
attack tunnel found in 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...
, which the military initially revealed in December during its offensive against the Paleostinian terror group.

In recent weeks, the IDF said, it worked to complete its investigation of the tunnel and then destroy it. The large passage was part of Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under Gaza, which the IDF has been working to uncover during the ongoing war that began with the terror group’s devastating October 7 attack on Israel.

Parts of the tunnel were blown up by combat engineers, with the IDF and Defense Ministry later pumping concrete into the remaining underground passages.

The tunnel, of which around four kilometers (2.5 miles) were uncovered by the IDF, goes down some 50 meters (165 feet) underground in some areas and appeared to have been wide enough for vehicles to pass through. It did not enter Israeli territory, but officials described it as designed for use in attacks rather than as a defensive position or for use in transporting officials.

One of the shafts was found just 400 meters (a quarter mile) from the Erez Crossing, which until Hamas’s October 7 onslaught facilitated the movement of Paleostinian civilians into Israel for work and medical care.

The IDF said the tunnel project was led by Muhammad Sinwar, the commander of Hamas’s southern brigade, and brother of Hamas’s Gaza leader, Yahya Sinwar.

In its December announcement, the military released footage obtained from the Gaza Strip showing Muhammad Sinwar in a car driving through the tunnel.

The destruction of the tunnel came as the IDF continued to battle against Hamas fighters amid a dire humanitarian crisis for the 2.3 million Paleostinians in Gaza caught up in the war, with the World Health Organization saying malnutrition in northern Gaza is "particularly extreme."

The IDF said its 98th Division, operating at the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis, captured dozens of terror operatives over the past day.

The division’s Commando Brigade had been raiding Hamas sites in the neighborhood, where troops seized a large amount of weapons.

The military said in a statement that over the past day, troops facilitated the evacuation of civilians from the area, during which the soldiers nabbed dozens of Hamas and 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...
terror group operatives who tried to flee with the civilians. The IDF has in the past reported similar incidents of Hamas fighters concealing themselves among fleeing civilians, underlining Israel’s accusations that the terror group embeds within the civilian population, using them as human shields, and increasing the casualties among non-combatants.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, Bart was wondering if fisticuffs would be appropriate at this point...
in central Gaza, the IDF said the Nahal Infantry Brigade killed some 20 button men over the past day, including with sniper fire and by calling in tank shelling and ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
In northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the IDF said troops called in an airstrike against a Hamas cell operating a drone against soldiers.

Across Gaza, the Israeli Air Force carried out strikes against more than 50 Hamas targets over the past day, the statement said. The targets included rocket launching positions, weapon depots, tunnel shafts, and other infrastructure.

Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry said that 97 people in the Strip were killed over the past day, raising the toll since the war started to 30,631 Paleostinians. It said that a further 72,043 have been injured. The numbers cannot be verified and do not differentiate between combatants and civilians. They are thought to include those killed by errant Paleostinian fire within the Strip.

Posted by:trailing wife

#2 There is no Jewish Temple at the Wailing Wall or on the Temple Mount, Old Salty. The wall is all that is left of the support structure for the platform, and the bare platform is all that is left of the Temple that King Herod rebuilt. The Al Aqsa Mosque is for the Moslems — as far as I am aware it’s the only structure up there..

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-03-06 22:21

#1 Hamass is waiting until RAMAdAM in hopes that other Musclemen might join them. So...the question is what happens Jerusalem in first day in Ramadan? Many years ago I was there on the first day... Solders protected people at the wailing wall and allowed y them to go up the ramp to their temple. We unbelievers were pushed down the street with elbows. Women on the right and men on the left. Many people lost their sandals but could not stop to pick them up.

Posted by: Old Salty 2024-03-06 16:11

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