The Israeli army said on Saturday that it had hit “150 underground targets” in northern Gaza in a night of very intense bombing.
Israel believes that the Palestinian Islamist movement controls and organizes its operations from a gigantic network of underground tunnels.
“Overnight, IDF warplanes struck 150 underground targets in the northern Gaza Strip, including tunnels used by terrorists, underground fighting sites and other underground infrastructure. Several Hamas terrorists were killed,” said the statement, issued after a night of intense Israeli raids against the area.
The Israeli military further claims it killed a Hamas official who was responsible for “paramotors, drones, tracking devices and air defense.”
“Asem Abu Rakaba took part in organizing the massacre in the communities bordering the Gaza Strip on October 7th,” “he led the terrorists who infiltrated Israel with paramotors and was responsible for the drone strikes on IDF surveillance posts,” it says it in the statement.
Bombings continued Saturday in the Gaza Strip, the target of unprecedented Israeli attacks three weeks after the Palestinian Islamic movement massacre that killed more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, according to Israeli authorities.
According to the army, 229 Israeli, binational or foreign hostages were brought to Gaza by Hamas, which has since released four women.
According to the Hamas Health Ministry, 7,326 people, mostly civilians, including more than 3,000 children, have been killed in Israeli retaliatory bombings in Gaza since October 7.
The Gaza Strip has been cut off from the world since Friday due to the shutdown of telecommunications and the internet.