Israeli military destroys two Hamas tunnels in Gaza
Benjamin Netanyahu confirms IDF's actions as part of "policy to systematically eliminate the infrastructure of terrorist tunnels"
The Israeli military has destroyed two Hamas terror tunnels in Gaza.
One of the border-crossing tunnels, bombed early Sunday morning, was a tunnel that had been built prior to the 2014 Gaza war, and was previously only partially destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces during the Gaza war. Workers for the Hamas terror organisation, that runs Gaza, were attempting to reopen the tunnel and make it usable, according to the Israeli military.
The tunnel, located in southern Israel, passed near the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza.
“The tunnel was neutralised tonight by an engineering action led by the IDF Southern Command operating within Israeli territory to protect its civilians and sovereignty. The IDF does not wish to escalate the situation, but we stand ready and prepared for a variety of scenarios,” the IDF spokesman said in a statement.
A second tunnel, located in central Gaza, also was attacked “as part of the systematic effort to thwart the underground project from the Gaza Strip and in response to the recent incidents near the border fence. The Hamas terrorist organisation is responsible for everything happening in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said in a statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement issued Sunday morning: “Last night the IDF destroyed two terrorist tunnels. Our policy is to take determined action against any attempt to attack us and to systematically eliminate the infrastructure of terrorist tunnels and thus we will continue. The time has come for the international community to realise that the assistance funds to Gaza are being buried underground.”
The attacks on the tunnels came hours after a bomb planted near the Israel-Gaza border exploded. No one was killed in the blast. There were no Israeli troops located near the site of the bomb. It is one in a series of bombs planted by Hamas near the Gaza border fence in an attempt to harm Israeli soldiers.
Sunday morning was the fourth time that tunnels running from Gaza to Israel have been destroyed by the IDF since November.
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