WATCH: Hamas terror tunnel network busted in Beit Hanoun
IDF troops uncovered and destroyed a sprawling five-kilometer underground tunnel network packed with explosives, grenades, rifles, and other weapons in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
IDF troops uncovered and destroyed a sprawling five-kilometer underground tunnel network packed with explosives, grenades, rifles, and other weapons in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza.
Troops from the Northern Brigade Combat Team uncovered a rocket launcher loaded with five rockets and prepared for launch.
In Beit Hanoun, the IDF’s elite Yahalom engineering unit demolished a Hamas tunnel stretching roughly a kilometer, removing a significant piece of the terror group’s underground infrastructure.
‘We will not allow Hamas to rebuild, we control large parts of the Strip and hold the dominant lines. The yellow line is a new border.’
Hamas converted entire neighborhoods into massive terror bases with dozens of interconnected tunnel entrances and shafts that conceal terrorists, weapons, and command centers used to fight the IDF.
The airstrikes also destroyed dozens of booby-trapped buildings, causing huge explosions heard as far south as Sderot and the plains region, as hidden IEDs detonated in secondary blasts as well.
For many soldiers the repeated operations in Beit Hanoun evoke a painful sense of déjà vu—one
By David Brummer An Israeli soldier was killed and five others were wounded, three of them seriously, in a Hamas ambush in northern Gaza on
Hamas meanwhile took credit for collapsing the building.
