A chilling video emerged Sunday revealing the intricate, two-level underground headquarters of Hamas’ Northern Brigade, where the bodies of five hostages were found.
The images, released by the Israeli army, show the huge underground center discovered dozens of meters deep in the Jabaliya neighborhood of Gaza, which has seen some of the most intense fighting of the war in recent weeks.
The video shows Israeli soldiers discovering for the first time a weapons cache hidden inside a building, which houses an elevator shaft to the complex tunnel system below.
The entire network was more than a third of a square mile in size and extended beneath a nearby school and hospital, connecting to the home of former Hamas northern brigade leader Ahmed Ghandour, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike. . said the Times of Israel.
The IDF found weapons manufacturing stations inside a large two-level tunnel beneath Jabaliya. IDF The tunnel system passed beneath a Gaza school and hospital. IDF
The tunnel system had a full working bathroom, as well as other bathrooms, a water cooling area, and workshop stations containing dozens of rifle ammunition.
The tunnel was destroyed by the IDF days ago after the army completed its scan of the area and announced that the Hamas Jabaliya battalion had been defeated.
The IDF carried out a raid to gain access to the tunnel system after intelligence reports earlier this month indicated that the bodies of at least two hostages were located in the Jabaliya area.
The entrance was located beneath a building that contained a hoard of explosives and weapons. IDF
The IDF then recovered the bodies of Ziv Dado, 36; Eden Zacarías, 27 years old; Nik Beizer, 19; Ron Sherman, 19 years old; and Elia Toledano, 28, from the tunnel network.
Given, a non-commissioned officer in the Golani Brigade, was killed during the October 7 terrorist attack, and Zacharia was one of the hostages who was kidnapped at the Nova festival during the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s incursion into Israel that day.
Beizer was an IDF corporal and Sherman a sergeant, and both soldiers were kidnapped along the Gaza border on October 7.
Near the tunnel, Israeli forces recovered the body of hostage Elia Toledano. family brochure
Toledano was another Nova festival attendee who was separated from her friend and fellow French-Israeli Mia Schem, one of the more than 100 hostages freed in November.
The destruction of the Jabaliya tunnel came as the IDF blew up a similar massive tunnel system located beneath Palestine Square in Gaza’s upscale Rimal neighborhood.
The Gaza City tunnel was where officials believe top Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and military chief Muhammad Deif were operating when their forces attacked Israel on October 7, massacring 1,200 people and kidnapping more. of 240.
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