The Israeli troops they stated that his forces attacked this tuesday to militants of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas inside the vast network of tunnels under Gaza.
“During the last day, the combined combat forces of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) They attacked approximately 300 targets, including missile launch sites anti-tank and rockets located under wells, as well as military complexes within underground tunnels belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization“the army reported in a statement.
Hamas’ tunnel network hundreds of kilometers long And till 80 meters deepwas described by a freed hostage as “a spider web“and by an expert like”the Viet Cong network” multiplied by 10.
“The tunnels in Gaza were built to protect Hamas fighters, not to civilians. Protecting Gaza civilians is responsibility of the UN and Israel“said Abu Marzouk, a Hamas official.
Furthermore, it is believed that some of the 240 hostages which, according to Israel, They were kidnapped by Hamas are held in the complex of underground corridors, which adds a more complication for the Israelisin addition to the difficulties of fighting in an urban environment.
According to Unicef, the Israeli attacks turned Gaza into a “cemetery for boys and girls”
He UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said today that some 3,500 Palestinian children died in more than three weeks of Israeli bombings in the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attacks in Israel and that the enclave has become “in a cemetery for thousands of boys and girls”.
The Gaza Strip is already “a hell for anyone“But, in particular, “it has become a cemetery for thousands of boys and girls” since the beginning of the Israeli bombings, he said. Unicef in a statement.
The agency note again “pleaded,” through spokesman James Elder, “that stop the killing“, which also involves the need for there to be “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire“.
The figure of dead in Gaza, according to Hamas, is at least 3,554 boys and girls enter at least 8,525 Palestiniansdue to the bombings launched by the Israeli army since militants from the Islamist group killed more than 1,400 people and took about 240 hostages in Israel on October 7.
Source: Ambito
