The Israeli army announced today Thursday how he discovered hundreds of tunnel entrances on the ground surface and more than 100 tunnels underground in the area of ​​Khan Yunisin the southern part of the Gaza Strip, and will continue to investigate and destroy the network of tunnels.

“Terrorists were also killed” during operations, they reported through their channel to Telegram platform the Israeli armed forces.

Israeli hostages were held in a tunnel under Khan Younis, which appears to have been expensive to build, according to the Israeli military.

“Millions of shekels are estimated to have been invested in the opening of the tunnel and its equipment with ventilation, electrical and plumbing systems”the same source added.

An entire network of tunnels stretches for many kilometers under the Gaza Strip. To withstand Israeli bombs, some of them are tens of meters deep. Terrorists also use the tunnels to appear out of nowhere and attack soldiersthe Israeli armed forces said.

Brigadier General Dan Goldfuss said yesterday, Wednesday, that the army has now adjusted its strategyy, according to the Times of Israel.

At first only the entrances to the tunnels were detected and destroyed, but now the soldiers enter them. “There we will defeat the core of Hamas,” said the Israeli brigadier general.

The leadership of the Islamist Palestinian movement Hamas, led by Yahya al-Shinwarbelieved to be within the network of tunnels in the Khan Yunis area.

Israeli media recently reported that Israel knows where al-Sinwar is hidingbut has refrained from attacking because the Hamas leader in Gaza surrounded by Israeli hostageswhom he uses as human shields.

The German Agency notes that this information could not be confirmed by an independent source and a military spokesman did not want to comment on it.

Arrest of two Palestinians

Alongside, Israeli police announced today that they foiled plans to attack security forcesstriking two Palestinian supporters of the Islamic State jihadist group, who were arrested in December.

“The Terrorists” they, aged 21 and 23 and residents of East Jerusalem, an area annexed and occupied by Israel, “they planned to prepare explosive devices and target the security forces”according to a joint statement issued by the Israel Police and Shin Bet, the internal security service.

The two men were arrested, one “about a month ago” and the other on Dec. 25, according to both agencies.

“The two terrorists supported the ideology of the Islamic State and viewed on the Internet and through Telegram a lot of content produced by the organization abroad,” according to the police and Shin Bet. They also consulted websites that provided bomb-making information.

Few Palestinians have joined the Islamic Statewhich established a self-styled caliphate in Syria and Iraq in 2014 before losing large swaths of territory it controlled in 2019.

In March 2022, two police officers were killed by two Palestinians living in northern Israelwho were presented by the police as members of the Islamic State.

Before that, 4 killed in southern Israel in attack by Palestinian who held Israeli citizenshipwho had served a prison sentence for trying to join the Islamic State.