Harrowing new video launched by the Israeli Protection Forces (IDF) reveals the situation of the tunnels by which the troops discovered six hostages who had been executed by Hamas terrorists final month.
“We’ve additionally distributed this footage in English, and I’ve briefed the worldwide media, in order that the entire world can see and bear in mind the evil of Hamas and perceive the cruelty with which it treats the hostages,” IDF Spokesperson RADM. Daniel Hagari mentioned at a briefing earlier this week.
“Even at this second, our hearts are initially with the households of the hostages, and we share of their immense grief and sorrow,” Hagari added. “We proceed and can proceed to exert each effort, each effort to convey the hostages house alive, and as shortly as doable.”
The IDF in late-August retrieved six our bodies of deceased Israeli hostages in a rescue operation. The our bodies included that of American-Israeli citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose mother and father had made quite a few public appeals for his protected return, together with speeches on the Democratic Nationwide Conference.
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Goldberg-Polin, together with Eden Yerushalmi, Ori Danino, Alex Lobanov, Carmel Gat and Almog Sarusi, have been executed by Hamas terrorists on Aug. 29 earlier than Israeli forces reached them, the IDF reported.
The brand new footage reveals Hagari as he strikes by means of the tunnels, displaying how cramped, darkish and terrifying all the scene actually was. The passageway runs below Rafah’s Tel Sultan neighborhood.
The footage reveals rubbish littered all through the tunnel, in addition to scattered clothes and a few bloodstains. The troops additionally discovered a number of weeks’ price of meals and tools they consider the Hamas terrorists had used to outlive together with the hostages.
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The tunnel, positioned about 60 toes underground, runs roughly 400 toes and isn’t tall sufficient to face upright with out bending over, in line with The Occasions of Israel.
Supplies discovered within the tunnel the place the IDF recovered the our bodies of six deceased hostages. (Courtesy of the Israeli Protection Forces)
Israeli forces would go on to destroy a reported eight miles of underground routes and have neutralized roughly 80% of all Hamas tunnels alongside the Philadelphi Hall, the IDF mentioned this week.
“We’re persevering with to research the circumstances of the homicide as completely as doable,” Hagari mentioned. “As soon as the investigation is full, we’ll firstly, firstly current the findings to the households after which to the general public.”
Supplies discovered within the tunnel the place the IDF recovered the our bodies of six deceased hostages. (Courtesy of the Israeli Protection Forces)
“The troops working within the subject acted responsibly and cautiously, above and under floor,” Hagari continued. “In current weeks, they’ve eradicated many terrorists above floor, together with the commander of the Tel al-Sultan Battalion and the chain of command of the battalion.
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“We didn’t have intelligence info that will permit us to hold out a hostage rescue operation, and we didn’t know the exact location of the hostages within the tunnel that was positioned,” Hagari added. “They have been murdered earlier than we reached the situation.”
Supplies discovered within the tunnel the place the IDF recovered the our bodies of six deceased hostages. (Courtesy of the Israeli Protection Forces)
Hagari additionally talked about that the IDF has initiated an investigation into how the names of the six hostages leaked earlier than they have been recovered from the tunnel, calling the breach “a really critical incident that firstly harm the households . . . and in addition compromised the safety of the troops working within the subject.”
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Israeli forces proceed to conduct operations within the Tel al-Sultan space, positioned within the south-western portion of Gaza and simply north of the Philadelphi Hall, the place tunnels proceed to be positioned and destroyed.
Fox Information Digital’s Caitlin McFall contributed to this report.
