The head of the IDF’s Southern Command warns Hamas terrorist operatives that attack tunnels are “a death trap for you,” in a video released after the military destroyed such a tunnel.
“Any tunnel that is discovered will be destroyed. We won’t hesitate to act in order to defend Israeli civilians,” Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir says.
The general notes that Israeli soldiers operated deep inside the tunnel before destroying it.
“It no longer presents a threat,” he says.
Zamir accuses the terrorist group of “serially violating Israeli sovereignty,” and warns that continuing to do so risks “escalation” and threatens the Gaza Strip’s civilian population.
“I’ve warned the enemy and I’ll warn them again: Anyone who goes into a tunnel, endangers himself. These terror tunnels are a death trap for you,” he says.
Zamir adds that the army has a number of technological and intelligence capabilities with which it believes it can effectively neutralize the threat of border-crossing attack tunnels.
— Judah Ari Gross
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