Last updated: 11.11.2023, 05:00 a.m.
By: Lisa Mariella Löw
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Israel wants to use "sponge bombs" to imprison Hamas in its tunnels. Their opponents, on the other hand, seem to keep their weapons secret.
Gaza - The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reportedly got a nasty surprise during the Israeli war when they targeted Hamas' tunnel system in the Gaza Strip. TheU.S. newspaper Newsweek reported that Israel had encountered unknown weapons from its opponents.
Among the "weapons of war unknown to the security system" were new rockets found by IDF engineers, Newsweek writes. According to a translation from Hebrew published by the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, an IDF spokesman said on Wednesday that fighters from Hamas' 460th Brigade had located and destroyed several Hamas tunnel shafts.
Gaza war: Israel destroyed 130 Hamas tunnel shafts
Deep underground: the tunnel system of the radical Islamist Palestinian Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Archive image) © IMAGO / ZUMA Wire
In addition, tunnels were discovered during an Israeli raid on a Hamas training post. After uncovering them, IDF soldiers destroyed the shafts. They suspected Hamas fighters there who would use the additional water and oxygen supplies they found to prepare for longer stays underground. According to the Israel Broadcasting Corporation, the IDF uses heavy technical tools to infiltrate the tunnels and then destroys them with hacking devices and explosives.
On Wednesday, November 8, Israel's Channel TV news channel reported that the IDF had mobilized its entire corps of engineers, including reserves, for the war in Gaza. The armed forces have destroyed 130 tunnel shafts so far. Their goal is to attack more shafts in the coming days and, if necessary, to penetrate into the tunnels.
Israel posts video of alleged destruction of Hamas tunnel in Gaza
A video published by Channel 13 on Platform X showed the destruction of alleged Hamas tunnels near schools at the northern end of the Gaza Strip. An IDF press release on Wednesday, November 8, also stated that Israeli paratroopers had uncovered and destroyed a separate underground tunnel shaft near an amusement park.
According to CNBC, Hamas operates a nearly 500-kilometer network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip that it is believed to have built over the decades. Many facilities are located more than 30 meters underground. "Underground, long tunnels connected to hospitals and schools are connected by them," Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, according to an NBC translation from Hebrew, as reported by Newsweek.
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Israel's weapons: Closing Hamas tunnel in Gaza with "sponge bombs"
According to Gallant, Hamas has communication rooms, ammunition depots, shelters and anything that can be used as a base for terrorism to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and the IDF soldiers.
The British newspaper The Telegraph reported that the IDF had tested chemical "sponge bombs" to infiltrate tunnel systems. They would not contain explosives, but were used in the current Israeli war to close gaps or tunnel entrances from which fighters could emerge. (Lisa Mariella Löw)