Defense Minister Yoav Gallant reveals that Israeli troops are “operating deep underground” in the Gaza Strip.
“These operations are also being carried out above ground, but there is also a deep descent into the depths, to find bunkers, war rooms, communication centers, ammunition depots and meeting rooms,” Gallant says following an assessment with the 162nd Division. “We will see these things in photographs in the coming days.”
Gallant also says the brothers of Ahmed Ghandour — the former commander of Hamas’s northern Gaza Brigade who was killed in an Israeli strike — are being interrogated by Israel.
“They are already telling us a large part of the stories of the murders of October 7, and other things,” he says. “We are deepening the achievement, [Hamas in] Gaza City is breaking. And soon we will eliminate the entire Hamas infrastructure in Gaza City.”
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