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The total size and dimensions of the Palestinian tunnel network in the Gaza Strip is unknown, with all parties involved keeping the details classified. [6] [7] [8] In 2016, Ismail Haniyeh, the former Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority and later Chairman of the Hamas Government, indicated that the tunnel network was double the size of the Củ Chi tunnels, which were developed ...
In 2021, Hamas claimed to have built 500 kilometers (311 miles) of tunnels under Gaza. To put that in perspective, the Gaza Strip is just 41 kilometers long and up to 12 kilometers wide.
The Israeli military has long claimed Khan Younis is a major Hamas stronghold, alleging that a tunnel network underneath civilian buildings in the city was likely where Hamas planned the October 7 ...
Officials from Israel and the United States have said they believe Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ newly named top leader and one of the architects of the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, could be hiding in tunnels under Khan Younis. The military said Friday its warplanes struck 30 Hamas targets in the city, including fighters and weapons storage sites.
Khan Yunis is the second largest urban area in the Gaza Strip after Gaza City. It serves as the principal market center of the territory's southern half and hosts a weekly Bedouin souk ("open-air market") mostly involving local commodities. [48] As of 2012 Khan Yunis had the highest unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories. [49]
Underlining how tough tunnels can be to destroy, America used a massive explosive against an Islamic State group tunnel system in Afghanistan in 2017 called “the mother of all bombs,” the ...
According to Israel, their intentions were to: first, search for the bodies of Israeli hostages in a certain location after receiving intelligence to that end; and second, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) alleged, without providing evidence, that the digging up of Beit Hanoun Cemetery near Khan Yunis was due to a Hamas command center in a tunnel ...
Israel retrieved the bodies of six hostages from the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza, the military said on Tuesday, as negotiations continued in an effort to bring back more than 100 who remain ...