IDF takes over Gaza City's south, pushes Hamas out of Shejaia • IDF: Israel killed four senior Hamas brigade commanders, three left
IDF destroys massive, multi-level tunnel network beneath Gaza City
The various floors of the underground structure were used for storage, hideouts, command and control, and to facilitate movement of terrorists between different locations in the area.
The IDF destroyed a Hamas tunnel network in southern Gaza City’s Issa district during operational activity in the area over the last few weeks, the IDF said on Friday.
The demolished tunnel network served as a subterranean post for the Gaza-based Islamist terror organization, the IDF added. Other buildings being used as Hamas headquarters were also reportedly destroyed.
The news comes a day after the IDF announced the troops from the Yahalom special operations unit of the IDF’s Combat Engineering Corps, along with the 401st Brigade combat team, destroyed an extensive tunnel network used by senior Hamas leadership beneath Gaza City's Shejaia neighborhood.
As part of the Israeli forces hitting Hamas in the south of Gaza City, the Yiftah Battalion, along with combat engineering forces, targeted the Hamas headquarters in the area.
During their raid on the infrastructure, the IDF troops observed a terrorist squad attempting to launch an attack on the Israeli soldiers. The troops subsequently engaged and successfully eliminated the terrorists in close-quarters combat, the IDF continued.
Throughout the operational activity, the IDF also reported that many other terrorists, buildings used for terror activities, and weapons were destroyed.
Concurrently, troops of the IDF Paratroopers Brigade operating in the Issa area uncovered a number of shafts descending into the since-razed underground tunnel network.
Canada’s Trudeau: Israel’s military actions in Gaza threatens support for Jewish state
Trudeau maintained that Canada supported a two-state solution and that Hamas should not be involved in negotiations on bringing about a Palestinian state.
Justin Trudeau, in an interview with CBC on December 21, said that Israel’s war against Hamas could threaten international support for a Jewish state.
"The voices from Israel's strongest friends, like Canada, like Australia, especially like the United States ... are becoming increasingly concerned that … the short-term actions being taken by Israel are actually putting at risk the long-term safety and even support for a Jewish state into the future," Trudeau told CBC.
The comments were made after an increased international push to install a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas. Hamas rejected a ceasefire offer which would have seen increased humanitarian aid into Gaza and a week pause in fighting in exchange for 40 hostages kidnapped during their massacre on October 7.
Butting heads over Palestinian statehood
Trudeau further insisted that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a conversation over Netanyahu’s earlier comments that he was “proud that I prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
“I very much shared with him our deep belief that Canada is unflinching — and has been for many years — that a two-state solution is the only way to move forward. That we have to have a free, secure, viable Israel, alongside a free, secure, viable Palestinian state,” Trudeau said.
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