The IDF thwarted the largest terror tunnel uncovered in the northern Gaza Strip/IDF spokesperson
During the ground maneuver, Shin Bet and IDF forces located a tunnel that was defined as a long "autostrada tunnel" that was built at a distance of hundreds of meters from the Erez crossing to the Jabaliya area.
Today (Tuesday) the IDF thwarted the tunnel, which has several branches that was dug from the north of the Gaza Strip towards the territory of Israel. We note that the route did not cross into the territory of Israel.
The size of the tunnel: tens of meters deep, about five meters wide in a way that allows vehicles to be moved from north to south, leaving the The senior officials of the security establishment are speechless. During its investigation, a video was discovered in which Yahya Sinuar's brother was seen riding on top of a Jeep inside the tunnel.
With the discovery of the tunnel and its exposure, criticism was leveled at the senior officials of the security establishment and the political echelon who allowed Hamas to build an extreme terrorist infrastructure of its size and its consequences for The entire area in a way that helped smuggle terrorists in secretly and on a large scale. Officials in the security system rejected the review and claimed that they knew about its location (hundreds of meters from the fence) but there was no estimate of its size.
The largest terror tunnel uncovered, a project built under the leadership of Muhammad Sinwar in the northern Gaza Strip/IDF Spokesman, has been foiled
The largest terror tunnel uncovered, a project built under the leadership of Muhammad Sinwar in the northern Gaza Strip/IDF Spokesman, has been foiled
According to estimates, Hamas activated the tunnel a large number of times starting from October 7 until the ground maneuver.
For them, it was defined as one of the hidden secrets since many resources were invested in it, its size and length constituted a proven operational ability to move forces from side to side very quickly, including by means of vehicles and equipment already in the first hours of the attack not only terrorists got out of it but also hostages were taken through it.
This tunnel symbolizes the blindness of the entire intelligence community, since in the Indian system Hamas managed to trick everyone when it systematically brought the soil underground using very advanced methods to build the "highway" that supported the operational concept of the military arm: raid, kidnap, and disappear.
The IDF kept secret the method for sealing the tunnel and the timing of the engineering treatment for it. For information purposes, foreign military officers and foreign intelligence officials came to the tunnel to learn about it and when the officers were asked how they allowed such a tunnel to be built in a relatively short period of time from Israeli settlements: Kibbutz Erez, Netiv HaTara and Ha'arez Pass They stammered.
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