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The Israeli Army announced this Sunday that its troops found more than 800 tunnel openings in the Gaza Strip. Link since the start of its ground offensive on the enclave at the end of October and that around 500 were destroyed.
“Since the beginning of land operations in Gaza stripthe soldiers of Israel Defense Forces located more than 800 underground tunnel openings Hamas“, announced the military spokesman, who detailed that around 500 of them”were destroyed using various operational methods”.
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“Some of the tunnel mouths connected strategic Hamas assets through the network of underground tunnels.“, added the Army in a statement and specified that”many kilometers of tunnels were destroyed”.
Furthermore, he reported that “the mouths of the tunnels were located in civilian areas”And some even within“civil structures such as schools, daycare centers, mosques, and playgrounds“, something he guaranteed is”further evidence of how Hamas deliberately uses the civilian population and infrastructure as cover for its terrorist activity within Link”.
On the other hand, according to the Army spokesperson, the troops located “large quantities of weapons”in some tunnels.
Israel declared war on Hamas October 7th after an attack by the Islamic group, which included the launch of more than 4,000 rockets and the infiltration of around 3,000 militiamen, who killed around 1,200 people and kidnapped more than 240 in Israeli communities near Gaza.
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Since then, Israeli forces have attacked the Palestinian enclave, where more than 15,000 people have died, according to Palestinian authorities, most of them children and women, and it is estimated that more than 7,000 people are missing under the rubble.
Since the start of the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza, 72 soldiers have been killed and hundreds injured.
Source: Elcomercio
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