IDF chief says Israel dealing with tunnel threat

IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot says the army is working hard to “locate and thwart” cross-border tunnels from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Israel is witness to a “complex security situation,” he says, according to the Walla news site. “The IDF officers and soldiers are working resolutely to locate and thwart the terror threat and the tunnel threat.”

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference in memory of former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on February 9, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek/IDC Herzliya)
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot speaks at a conference in memory of former chief of staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya on February 9, 2016. (Adi Cohen Zedek/IDC Herzliya)

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