A 10 Kilometer-Long Terror Tunnel Passing Underneath a Hospital and a University: IDF Troops Located an Underground Tunnel Network Connecting the North and South of Gaza

The 162nd Division located a network of underground terrorist tunnels connecting the north and south of Gaza. The forces gained operational control over the tunnel shafts, investigated the tunnels and then destroyed a large part of the network.

The terrorist tunnel network connects the Turkish hospital bordering the central camps to the Israa University building in the south of Gaza City and reaches as far as the Zeitoun area.

This tunnel network is used by Hamas terrorists to move between different brigades in Gaza, including the Central Brigade to the Gaza City Brigade - among them the Nuseirat, Sabra and Zeitoun battalions.

Inside the tunnels, the troops located rooms including toilets, storage facilities for weapons and combat equipment, a branching tunnel shaft network, as well as the bodies of terrorists left in the tunnel.

Hamas has spent millions of dollars building an underground network of terrorist tunnels used for its military activities below schools, hospitals and residences across the Gaza Strip. The IDF will continue to operate to locate and dismantle Hamas’ subterranean network of terror.

Attached is a sync of the video of the Commanding Officer of the Nahal Brigade, COL Yair Zuckerman:

Attached are photos of weapons, explosives and tunnel shafts that were discovered in the area:

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