Army ‘days away’ from destroying all tunnels — IDF

30 July 2014, 7:17 pm

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Head of the Southern Command Sami Turgeman says “many hundreds” of Hamas operatives have been killed, and says the IDF has destroyed hundreds of weapons storage facilities, and significantly compromised Hamas’s terror infrastructure.

He says the IDF is “days away” from completing the military goal of destroying all of the tunnels, though the process is complex. Four tunnels have been destroyed in the past 24 hours, he adds.

Turgeman says the IDF expanded its operation last night, targeting new sites in the north and center of the coastal enclave.

With the amount of concrete Hamas poured into the tunnel project, two hospitals, twenty schools, twenty healthcare centers, and 100 kindergartens could have been built, he says.