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IDF says it finished razing Hamas’s main weapon manufacturing industrial zone in central Gaza
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleEmanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
The IDF says it has completed demolishing Hamas’s main rocket and weapon manufacturing industrial zone in the central Gaza Strip, along with a vast tunnel network beneath it that houses some of the facilities.
Parts of the facility were shown to reporters, including The Times of Israel, during a media tour earlier this month on Salah a-Din road in the Bureij area.
The IDF says troops located additional sites recently, in the Maghazi area, and between Bureij and Nuseirat.
In all, the 36th Division, the Yahalom combat engineering unit, and Air Force’s Shaldag unit discovered and destroyed dozens of tunnel shafts in the area of Salah a-Din road in central Gaza, that connect to hundreds of kilometers of underground passages, according to the IDF.
One of the tunnel shafts was located in the home of a senior Hamas commander responsible for the rocket manufacturing operation.
The IDF says the tunnels led to underground sites used by Hamas to manufacture rockets and other weapons, as well as passages used by the terror group to transport munitions to all parts of Gaza.
Both above and below ground in Maghazi, Bureij, and Nuseirat, the IDF says it discovered steel workshops, chemical and explosives factories, and storage sites for long-range rockets.
The IDF says it has completed demolishing Hamas’s main rocket and weapon manufacturing industrial zone in the central Gaza Strip, along with a vast tunnel network beneath it that houses some of the facilities.
Parts of the facility were shown to reporters, including yours truly,… pic.twitter.com/KX8m5P3mFK
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