According to a military statement, a special unit of the Israeli army is tasked with locating and in many cases destroying these underpasses.
This unit, the elite command Shaldag of the Israeli Air Force is searching the tunnels for command posts and facilities used by Hamas in the battle, the statement said.
“Underground warfare is a combat strategy used by Hamas,” said the Israeli army, which has repeatedly denounced that the tunnels are underground.schools, hospitals, mosques, United Nations offices and civilian institutions“.
After the Hamas attack in the past October 7more than 1,200 dead and more than 240 people were kidnapped. Israel declared a state of war and launched a military offensive on land, sea and air against the Palestinian enclave on the 27th of that month, killing more than 19,600 people and wounding more than 52,500 so far, the report said. Ministry of Health in Gaza, controlled by the Islamic group
Source: El heraldo
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