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Israel targets Hamas' 300-mile tunnel network under Gaza as next phase in war begins
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-news-targets-tunnel-network-gaza-next-phase/
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Israel says it’s hitting hundreds of underground targets as it aims to eliminate Hamas in the labyrinth of passages, shafts and rooms believed to stretch more than 300 miles and possibly to a depth of more than 200 feet.
Nicknamed the “Gaza Metro,” Israel claims the underground maze is where Hamas plans and carries out attacks.
“They’re pivotal for anything that Hamas has planned to do,” said Joel Raskin, an expert on Gaza’s tunnels who has studied their evolution over half a century.
Dug by hand and basic tools, early narrow tunnels were used to smuggle goods in from bordering Egypt.
Hamas, though, denies there are tunnels under the Shifa hospital, which says it is sheltering 40,000 displaced Palestinians, and treating the wounded and the helpless, amid Israel’s intensifying ground operations.
Over the past three days, Israel has been dropping bombs to cave in Hamas’ networks, even as foreign hostages are being hidden inside them.
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