JERUSALEM: Israel’s military on Wednesday said it had discovered and destroyed a tunnel used by senior Hamas leaders and to hold hostages in southern Gaza’s main city of Khan Yunis.
Special forces unearthed what they said was a “strategic underground tunnel” stretching more than one kilometer (just over half a mile) in a “targeted raid.”
The city — home to Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar — has been the focus of intense bombardment in recent weeks, as Israel seeks to hunt down the masterminds of the deadly October 7 attack.