Israel-Hamas: IDF discovers Hamas largest secret attack tunnel, close to northern Gaza. Image credit: TOI
Reporting this Sunday, the Israeli Defense Force said it has uncovered the ever-largest Hamas attack tunnel, in the North of Gaza, near the Erez border with Israel.
While the war rages on in the region, many families of the Israeli soldiers continue to mount pressure on the prime minister to never stop the war.
“Families of dead soldiers urged me to continue the war”, Benjamin Netanyahu.
According to the Prime Minister, some families of the soldiers had “sent him letters urging” him to not let the enemies of Israel defeat their country.
This is coming from the growing internal pressure and it’s a clear indication that’s exactly what he’s going to do now. Israel is also facing increasing international pressure to stop being offensive in Gaza.
Also this week, France has become the latest country to call for an immediate and durable truce, as this announcement had come after the killing of a French government employee and an Israeli airstrike in Rafa on Wednesday.
France Foreign Minister, Catherine Colonna has spoken with her Israeli counterpart on television, calling for “immediate truce” as one thing sure to relax war tensions within the region.
She said this will bring about progress towards ensuring free movement of humanitarian support to the people of Gaza.
“What we think and what we are saying is that an immediate truce is necessary, allowing progress to be made towards a ceasefire to obtain the release of the hostages to allow access and the delivery of more humanitarian aid to the suffering civilian population of Gaza,” she said.
“And in fact to move towards a humanitarian system and the beginning of our political solution in Israel.”
Catherine also asked some questions like if “there should be a pause in the fighting, some sort of ceasefire and negotiations with Hamas or whether there should be this intensive bombing campaign to try and weaken” that’s not what the Israel war leaders are failing to consider. (Ever-largest Hamas attack tunnel)
Well, Israel’s war cabinet, led by prime minister who’s been going for that latter objective was considering a lot of options for a negotiation.
But now, because of the killing of these three captured by those two soldiers, then pressure continues to mount on the Israeli prime minister which might, of course, make the war linger.
There are suggestions that maybe now is a time to look at a way to return to the negotiating table. The government said it was thinking about this anyway. Maybe they’re bringing that forward by a few days.
But what this has also said, is that, while the army is taking responsibility for the killing of those three captives, Alon Shamriz, Yotam Haim and Samer Talalka, no one is waiting.
A source said, “there has been almost no public conversation” here about the evidence that what happened to those three captives shows that ‘Israel shoots to kill civilians’. (2)
But a couple of other civilians have been killed in Gaza trying to surrender sometimes with waving a white flag, sometimes holding those hands up, according to Aljazeera.
“Those civilians have been Palestinians and the hazard in the outcry, and there hasn’t been much public discussion in Israel about whether this show is about the Israeli army’s tactics,” said Layla Moran, the MP for Oxford and Abingdon.
So, where are we now?
Here is the latest news about military operations in the Gaza strip.
Latest today is the release of some video about a secret tunnel by the Israel’s military that was found in Gaza. And the difference with this tunnel is simply the size of it. You can see the pictures.
This is really unusual. it’s the biggest tunnel ever found in the East . It run up about 400 metres towards the border at the north of Gaza Strip, 400 metres before the border.
But fear remains whether it is big enough to carry more military vehicles with fighters in them, although no evidence, or claim has come from Israel.
According to the IDF, the tunnel was used to launch the attack on air as although that was one of the attack points, the entry points that Hamas has used during the October 7 attack.
It just shows the scale of the engineering feats of building that, most of the tunnels we’ve seen.
And Israel says, it has uncovered hundreds of them since October 7 running into Gaza. Those recent discoveries must have been very small and quite cramped for one or two people inside them. But this was a very, very big tunnel.
Meanwhile, Israel had no intelligence as far as you understand before, up to October 7 that this enormous tunnel existed. (Ever-largest Hamas attack tunnel )
Israel says, of course it fears some of them could been holding captives in some of those tunnels there, somewhere in Gaza.
