IDF Southern Command chief trying to stop aggressive tunnel rebuilding, but being blocked by politics as ‘half of Gaza is rearming & digging new tunnels.’
By Uzi Baruch, Ari Yashar
Hamas’s “military wing,” the Al-Qassam Brigades, announced on Saturday morning that a terrorist in the organization was killed in Gaza’s Beit Lahiya.
IDF soldiers expose Gaza terror tunnel (file) – IDF Spokesperson
The announcement revealed that the terrorist died when the tunnel he was working to dig collapsed.
Hamas has been actively rebuilding its terror tunnel infrastructure meant to facilitate attacks from within Israeli territory, with the digging said to be taking place six days a week with three shifts each day on roughly 30 tunnels – around the same number as was destroyed in last summer’s war, but in different routes.
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