The IDF has released footage from the Marom Brigade’s Oketz K-9 Unit’s dog cameras, revealing a tunnel network hundreds of meters long, that contained command and communication rooms, hideouts with dozens of meters of space, concrete bunkers, and water and electricity installations.
IDF soldiers of the Yiftah Battalion (11th) and combat engineering forces struck the Hamas headquarters in the Issa area, south of Gaza City.
The soldiers identified a terrorist cell attempting to attack the forces and eliminated them in close-quarters combat.
During IDF operations in the Issa area, many Hamas terrorists were eliminated, along with many buildings used for terrorist activities and weapons that were destroyed.
Soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade who were operating in the area located and discovered a number of shafts leading to a significant underground tunnel route.
Here’s a 3D model of the tunnel network created by the Yahalom Unit, showing the tunnel labyrinth beneath the Issa area.
Soldiers of the Yahalom Unit and the Oketz K-9 Unit examined the significant and strategic underground tunnel route beneath the “Issa” post – used as an underground base by the Hamas terrorist organization.
The multi-level structure served as an underground post with floors used for storage, hideouts, command and control, and movement of operatives between different areas.
After investigating with various technological means and in collaboration with the combat engineering forces of the 99th Division, the soldiers destroyed the underground tunnel route.
So far in this war, the unit’s soldiers and canine fighters have scanned dozens of tunnels, locating findings that allow the forces to enter the tunnels and to subsequently destroy them.
