Troops from the 551st Brigade and the 504th Military Intelligence Unit led the operation to recover the bodies of soldiers Warrant Officer Ziv Dado, Nik Beizer and Ron Sherman (the latter grandnephew of León Gieco), as well as civilians Elia Toledano and Eden Zacharia, reported The Times of Israel.
Hamas shafts, tunnels and elevators
The wells, investigated by troops including the elite Yahalom combat engineer unit, revealed a extensive network of tunnels with two levels and an elevator that descended several dozen meters to a large hall and command center.
The network of tunnels, Israel explained, had many branches used by Hamas for military operations, including tunnels that passed beneath a nearby school and hospital.
One of the wells led to the home of the former commander of Hamas’ northern brigade in Gaza, Ahmed Ghandour, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike. The entire network was approximately one square kilometer in size. Weapons and infrastructure used to manufacture weapons were also found in the tunnel.
Result of the recovery operation of Israeli soldiers
The first two bodies, those of Dado and Zacharia, were found on December 13, and three days later, the other three, Beizer, Sherman and Toledano, were located in a different part of the tunnel network, which was destroyed several years ago. days in Israel after completing his explorations in the area.
The escalation of violence began with the attack by Hamas militants in southern Israel on October 7, where they murdered just over 1,100 people, mostly civilians, in addition to wounding about 5,500, and kidnapping another 240, including about twenty Argentines.
The Israeli air and ground offensive in Gaza killed more than 20,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and injured more than 54,000 in just over two months.
Nearly 85% of Gaza’s 2.3 million people were forced to flee their homes, and much of the north of the territory was destroyed.
Source: Ambito
