DF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot visits the army’s Gaza Division, including two attack tunnels dug by Palestinian terrorist groups, which the military uncovered inside Israeli territory.
Eisenkot’s visit comes amid lingering tensions around the coastal enclave, following a two-week period of near-daily rocket attacks from the Strip.
During his trip, Eisenkot met with the head of the IDF’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir; Israel’s chief military liaison to the Palestinians, Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai; the head of the Gaza Division, Brig. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs; and the commander of the Northern (Gaza) Brigade, Col. Avi Rosenfeld, the army says.
Outside the two tunnels — one of which was destroyed on October 30 and the other on December 10 — the army chief inspects some of the military hardware used to locate and map them.
“The chief of staff expressed his great appreciation of the Southern Command’s officers for their operational methods and preventive activity, which combines intelligence, operational and technological capabilities in dealing with the underground threat from the Gaza Strip, which has led to the recent achievements,” the army says.
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