IDF Uncovers 10-Kilometer Hamas Tunnel Under Hospital and University in Northern Gaza
The IDF also announced it killed Hassan Hussein Salami, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon.
Is this tunnel #1,568,788?
I lost count! Vijeta Uniyal has written many posts on the tunnels found under Gaza. here are a few:
The latest tunnel spanned six miles under the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital and Al-Israa University to northern Gaza.
The IDF said a large blast destroyed most of the major sections.
The soldier discovered “living quarters, bathrooms, and weapons depots” and dead bodies of many Hamas operatives.
From The Jerusalem Post:
According to the military, these underground tunnels were utilized for inter-divisional communication between the different terror divisions in the Strip. The routes connected the Central Brigade to the Gaza City Brigade and the various battalions.
Within the tunnels, troops found rooms, storage areas, and toilets, along with weapons, military equipment, and a tunnel shaft network. In addition, soldiers found the bodies of terrorists left in the tunnel.
The IDF reveals it has uncovered a major Hamas tunnel network in central and northern Gaza, which it says passes under a hospital and university.
Troops of the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit, Nahal Infantry Brigade, and other forces under the 162nd Division recently… pic.twitter.com/qhebKoys39
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) February 26, 2024
IDF Kills Senior Hezbollah Commander
The IDF also announced it killed Hassan Hussein Salami, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon:
Salami, whose rank is equivalent to a brigade commander, was targeted while driving in the southern Lebanon village of Majadel.
The IDF says Salami was the commander of a regional unit in Hezbollah and oversaw attacks on IDF troops and Israeli communities in northern Israel.
Recent attacks that Salami was involved in included anti-tank missile attacks on Kiryat Shmona and the 769th “Hiram” Regional Brigade’s base, according to the IDF.
Hezbollah fired rockets at Golan Heights. None of them injured people. The Iron Dome intercepted some of them.
חיסול אחראי גזרת חג'יר בארגון הטרור חיזבאללה: כלי-טיס חיסל בדרום לבנון את אחראי גזרת חג'יר, המחבל חסן חסין סלאמי.
סלאמי משתייך ליחידת נאצר בארגון הטרור חיזבאללה ופיקד על מספר מתווי טרור שבוצעו לעבר כוחות צה"ל, ולעבר יעדים אזרחיים וצבאיים בצפון הארץ. pic.twitter.com/23VnTgdUx5
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) February 26, 2024
Rockets fired into the Golan Heights a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/G3Ff1d9GMM
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) February 26, 2024
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Israel needs to send in independent assessors to document and report on this ASAP.
It’s completely impossible for them to dig 10 miles of tunnel in a war zone so the Arab propaganda can’t really refute it.
No amount of information, fact, or photos will keep the anti-semites from denying the truth.
“The IDF also announced it killed Hassan Hussein Salami, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon”
I’m pretty sure there are some writers at the NYT and New Scientist that would like to honor salami by eating him.
Given the soil in the area, he’s become a Salami Sandwitch.
Maybe the story that Salami was killed is baloney.
🙂
Good riddance!
What’s the strategic value of the tunnels? It doesn’t seem to provide much advantage.
Huh?
WHAT’S THE STRATEGIC VALUE OF TUNNELS? IT DOESN’T SEEM TO PROVIDE MUCH ADVANTAGE.
Nicely played.
Did you being besides being able to move around without your enemy being able to observe it?
Did you mean, not did you being.
Avoid surveillance? Take cover from aerial bombings? Stash weaponry? Move covertly in and out of terrorist bases that have civilian fronts on them like a hospital?
They are quite common in older eras of warfare but they are less useful than they used to be.
It is my understanding that the USA was defeated in Vietnam largely due to tunnels.
By the late 1960s, tunnel networks extended from Cambodia to Saigon and elsewhere — But the Americans did not realize it.
There’s a museum in Vietnam commemorating THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI
There’s also a book THE TUNNELS OF CU CHI
Subterranean warfare is used because ….. it’s effective. It is folly to downplay this threat
And it appears that 21st century technology has only improved the effectiveness of these tactics.
Tunnels were very useful to the Jordanian forces in the Battle of Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem in 1967. When I was there I saw a group of IDF soldiers being given a guided tour by an officer, so I tagged along and heard the description of the site and the battle from a military point of view. The guide described how the Israeli forces were constantly being attacked from behind, and they couldn’t figure out how the Jordanians were getting behind them. After the battle they found a whole network of tunnels under the site.
The advantage is that without them the war would already be over and Hamas would have likely already lost.
They allow Hamas to hide, ambush, and above all to escape and move about. The result is in order to win Israel needs to occupy the entire surface and put a great deal of effort into finding and destroying every tunnel one by one.
It became their tomb.
Terror tunnels, paid for with U.S. and European aid money. Only the umpteenth example of foreign aid money completely squandered by these goose-stepping, genocidal fanatics, and, spent waging Islamic “holy war.”
And, vile Biden and the Dhimmi-crats are still indefensibly lavishly funding the Fakestinian Muslim supremacists, terrorists and Islamofascists.
I would like to see an engineering analysis of the cost of the tunnels and the amounts of the various raw materials that were used to build them. It would reveal the extent (to a large degree) of Hamas’ theft.
Yet they cannot pave a road or fix water pipes…
Hard to do that when the materials are being stolen for terrorist needs.
Solution, cut all aid, kill two birds with the same stone.
Same as dealing with someone begging on the street. Start with their demanding it doesn’t make it owed.
— Offer them stuff vs. money.
— Only engage if they name a specific need.
— Help them do for themselves, side by side. You do it with them, not for them.
“You want a hospital, that seems worthwhile to me. I’ll help build it with you til it’s done. Here’s your shovel.”
BTW this gives them far more dignity than being simply paid off, may help them build some skills and confidence, and they may even know better what they need than you do.
It’s worse than that. When Israel turned over Gaza to the “Palestinians” it came with infrastructure as well as factories and other facilities like greenhouses. The Palies destroyed everything that had been built or used by Jews.
This is what my mother would call “Cutting your nose off to spite your face.”
It’s not that they can’t. It’s that they don’t see any value in doing that because the end result isn’t helping to kill Jews.
They literally used the water pipes to form bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04NB27x138Y
Hamas has officially stated that it does not regard itself as the government of the Gaza Strip, and feels no responsibility to look after the population’s necessities of life. That’s the UN’s responsibility. It is purely a military organization, whose only goal is to carry out the war against the Jews; anything that doesn’t contribute to that war effort is not its responsibility.
UNWRA created this situation by providing food, “education”, and healthcare. If not for UNWRA, Hamas could not have survived this long.
It’s really starting to look like the only way to really cleanse that region is to remove all of the people and then carpet bomb that holy crap out of it to collapse all of the tunnels. And I’m talking some really big ass bombs here.
Remove them to where? No one wants them.;
And as defined by the Genocide Treaty, that would be “genocide”. Signing the thing back in the 1950s must have seemed like a good idea at the time. In hindsight it was not a good idea.
Well back then genocide actually meant genocide. Today just looking at someone sideways is considered genocide.
We’re talking about a treaty that defines the term for its own purposes. That definition hasn’t changed in 70 years. What’s changed is whether having signed it seems like a good idea.
To put 10K in some context, that’s roughly the distance from the very southern part of Harlem all the way south to Battery Park. That’s took some effort…and a great deal of money.
Quelle surprise.
Rats
Because of the thousands of terrorists who have died since October of 2023,
Hamas will need millions more each year to pay to the martyrs’ families.
I am sure that Mr. 10% is willing to provide the extra $$$$$$.
“ The IDF also announced it killed Hassan Hussein Salami…”
Baloney! (I’m surprised it took this long.)
Smoked Salami.
Very good 😂😂
FWIW to anyone with an interest:
HAMAS AND THE ORIGINS OF ISLAMIC ANTISEMITISM
https://yivo.org/IdeologySeries1
See also: “A New York Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology”: Starting Feb. 26, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsors a 3-part webinar with scholars countering the view that October 7 was ‘payback’ for Israel’s rule over the West Bank
https://www.timesofisrael.com/a-ny-yiddish-center-finds-nazis-lurking-deep-within-hamass-ideology/
Deserves its own post.
Hamas is part of the Moslem Brotherhood, which was founded in 1928 by Hassan al-Bannah, an admirer of Adolf Hitler, and was patterned at least in part on the organization Hitler was building in Germany. Almost as soon as the Nazis came to power in Germany they started funding the Brotherhood.
On The View, they said the 10K tunnel was an indoor jogging track to Gazans can be physically fit even when it rains.
lefty spin:
israel shuts down hospitals treating children
hamas is building tunnels cheaper and quicker than those in the usa for trains etc
Well, they’re not so concerned about things like safety. And they don’t have to deal with unions.
Also, Manhattan sits on top of a solid layer of schist that makes it hard to dig. The Gaza strip not so much.
Albany is on that same layer of “schist”…..along with most “blue” cities.
Translation of the Israeli Air Force’s tweet:
Elimination of the person in charge of the Hajir sector in the Hizballah terrorist organization: In South Lebanon, a drone eliminated the person in charge the Hajir sector, the terrorist Hassan Hassin Salami.
Salami belongs to the Nasser unit in the Hizballah terrorist organization, and commanded a number of terror schemes that were carried out against IDF forces, and against civilian and military targets in Northern Israel.
I suspect the destruction of the tunnels is the real reason everyone from the UN to the Democrat Party is so hot and horny for a ceasefire; nobody really cares about dead Palestinians, but the tunnels ensure that Israelis will continue to die.
THAT is vitally important to them.
FJB
FUN
I strongly suspect the destruction of the tunnels is the real reason everyone from the UN to the Democrat Party is so hot and horny for a ceasefire; nobody really cares about dead Palestinians, but the tunnels ensure that Israelis will continue to die.
THAT is vitally important to them.
FJB
FUN