IDF Destroys Hamas Leaders’ Tunnels in Underground Detonation

What’s contained in the tunnels in Hamas’ normal headquarters: pic.twitter.com/6RbCcimdbv

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 29, 2023

In a press release, the IDF stated:

In latest weeks, the 14th Reserve Brigade Combat Team, underneath the command of the 162nd Division, positioned and destroyed one of many hideout flats of the Leader of the Hamas terrorist group in the Gaza Strip, Yahya Sinwar. The condo was positioned close to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, with many findings inside.

Soldiers of the Yahalom [“Diamond”] Unit examined the condo utilizing further technological means, and found {that a} strategic tunnel shaft was positioned on the basement ground. The troopers inspected the tunnel shaft and reached a big tunnel that’s apparently utilized by the senior officers of Hamas’ Military and Political Wing.

The condo is a part of a protracted and branching tunnel community, in which senior officers of the Hamas terrorist group moved and operated. The tunnel shaft that was positioned in the northern Gaza Strip led to a 218 meter lengthy tunnel, with a depth of about 20 meters. Located in the tunnel was {an electrical} community, air flow and sewage infrastructure, hideout supplies, prayer rooms and resting rooms. The tunnel was constructed in order that it could be potential to remain inside it and conduct fight from it for lengthy durations of time.

At the top of the examination and the operational exercise carried out alongside the tunnel route, the tunnel was destroyed by the troopers of the Yahalom Unit.

The IDF additionally killed a Palestinian terrorist who rammed a automobile into 4 civilians in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), and struck again at Hezbollah terrorists in southern Lebanon who had fired anti-tank missiles and rockets into northern Israel communities.