Combat engineers discovered and demolished the tunnel connected to a 500-meter underground passage, while an airstrike shortly afterward eliminated at least 10 Hamas operatives involved in the attack.
The IDF has released a video summarizing the investigation into the circumstances of the deaths of the six abductees.
Israeli Navy’s Shayetet 13 and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit carried out the operation.
Habib’s uncle Ismail told him, ‘You’re going to meet your dad,’ and the child smiled.
‘We were close. We were in his compound. It was ‘hot.’
