Israeli soldiers took control of Hamas’s Bureij Battalion headquarters which included a massive underground weapons manufacturing facility–the largest such site found since the beginning of the war, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday night. The complex was located in and beneath the densely populated area of Bureij in central Gaza. The IDF said the area was connected by underground tunnel shafts to wider tunnel network used to transport weapons to Hamas battalions throughout Gaza. Since the beginning of the war, Hamas has indiscriminately fired thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel. The number of men, women, children, soldiers and foreigners held captive in Gaza by Hamas is now believed to be 129.

Source: News 24 January 09, 2024 02:30 UTC