The IDF has leveled a mile-long part of one of many largest identified Hamas tunnel networks snaking beneath the Gaza Strip, officers mentioned.
Members of the elite Yahalom unit and fight engineers with the 162nd Division detonated a big portion of a greater than 7-mile-long tunnel positioned in central Gaza, the IDF mentioned Sunday.
Dramatic video exhibits the second the set off is pulled, inflicting a mile-long plume of smoke to erupt out of the bottom because the tunnel system caves in.
The destroyed part was used to attach Hamas’ navy forces and served as an underground crossing route between northern and southern Gaza, in accordance with the IDF.
The entire 7.5-mile-long tunnel system dwarfs the earlier largest tunnel found in December close to the Erez Crossing, which measured at about 2.5 miles.
It took about three months for the IDF to announce that it had accomplished the destruction of the two.5 mile lengthy tunnel, which was blown up and sealed with concrete.
It stays unclear how lengthy it will take the IDF to fully demolish and seal off the 7.5-mile-long tunnel in central Gaza.
The IDF estimates that it has destroyed about 40% of Hamas terror tunnels, about double what US officers have estimated.
Together with the demolition operations, the IDF has decimated Hamas’ tunnel system by means of airstrikes and utilizing water from the Mediterranean Sea to flood the corridors.
Sunday’s operation got here because the IDF’s Nahal Brigade took out 18 Hamas gunmen in central Gaza on Saturday following battles with snipers, tanks and airstrikes, in accordance with the Israeli navy.
