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The Israeli army claimed this Sunday to have discovered "the largest underground tunnel" built by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where Israel continues with devastating bombings despite multiple calls for a ceasefire. "This enormous network of tunnels, which is divided into several branches, has an extension of more than four kilometers and reaches up to 400 meters from the Erez Pass" between Israel and northern Gaza, indicated the armed forces of the Jewish State in a statement. release. The destruction of the network of tunnels built by Hamas is one of the objectives of the Israeli military offensive in that Palestinian territory, where up to 18,800 people died, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health.
Israel began these bombings and ground occupation Europe Mobile Number List of the Strip after the Hamas attacks on October 7 in Israel, in which some 1,140 people lost their lives. According to an AFP journalist who was able to access the discovered tunnel, it has plumbing, electricity, sewage, ventilation and rails. Hamas built a network of 1,300 tunnels in Gaza, with an extension of about 500 kilometers, to circumvent the blockade that Israel has imposed on the territory since according to an estimate by the Institute of Modern Warfare at the US Military Academy at West Point. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government is under increasing pressure, especially since it emerged on Friday that soldiers killed three hostages. "by mistake" after confusing them with Palestinian fighters.
It has an extension of more than four kilometers and reaches up to 400 meters from the Erez border crossing, between Israel and northern Gaza. Reuters photo The three hostages were among nearly 250 people captured in the unprecedented Hamas attack. During the funeral of Alon Shamriz, one of the three hostages, one of his relatives accused the armed forces of having "abandoned" and "murdered" the 26-year-old young man. The Israeli army published on Sunday photographs taken at the scene of the incident showing white flags with the inscription: "SOS", "Help" or "Three hostages". "Too many civilians are dying ," said French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, traveling to Israel, from where she urged "a new immediate and lasting humanitarian truce.