The Israeli military announced today that it “hit 150 underground targets” in the northern Gaza Strip overnight Friday into Saturday.

According to Israel, the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas runs and organizes its operations from a giant network of underground tunnels.

“Overnight, Chahal (Israeli army) warplanes hit 150 underground targets in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, including tunnels used by terrorists, underground combat facilities and other underground infrastructure. Several Hamas terrorists were killed,” the Israeli military said in a statement released after a night of heavy Israeli shelling in the Palestinian enclave.

The Israeli military also notes that it killed a Hamas official who was in charge of “motorized paragliders, drones, reconnaissance and air defense equipment.”

“Assem Abu Raqaba participated in the organization of the massacre in the communities bordering the Gaza Strip on October 7”, “had directed the terrorists who infiltrated Israel by motorized paragliders and was responsible for drone attacks on Chahal surveillance posts” , it is clarified in the announcement of the Israeli army.

Shelling continued today in the Gaza Strip, the target of unprecedented Israeli strikes, three weeks after the Palestinian Islamist movement’s deadly and unprecedented attack on Israeli territory killed more than 1,400 people, most of them civilians, according to Israeli authorities. .

According to the Israeli military, 229 hostages — Israelis, dual nationals or foreigners — were abducted in Gaza by Hamas militants, who have since released four women.

According to the Hamas Health Ministry, 7,326 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including more than 3,000 children, have been killed in Gaza in Israeli bombardment in retaliation for the October 7 attack.

The Gaza Strip has been cut off from the world since yesterday due to the disruption of telecommunications and the internet.