🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — On December 17, 2023, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli observers published series of footages and images of what it claimed to be the largest-ever Hamas attack tunnel discovered and found by the Israeli military, in the northern Gaza Strip, close to the Erez border crossing

According to the IDF, the massive tunnel system branches out and spans well over four kilometers (2.5 miles). Its entrance is located only 400 meters (1,310 feet) and, as claimed by the IDF, was used by Gazans on a daily basis to enter Israel for work and medical treatment in Israeli hospitals.

Per the IDF, this tunnel system was a project led by Mohammad Sinwar, the brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and the commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Battalion.

As claimed by the Israeli Army and noted by observers, over the past weeks of the combat operations inside Gaza, the IDF Combat Engineering Corps’ elite Yahaom unit and Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade used “advanced intelligence and technological means” to uncover the “strategic” tunnel network, scan it, and clear it of any potential threat

Alongside the photos taken by IDF soldiers during the ongoing operations, the Israeli Army medias published a "video recovered by IDF from Hamas" showing the work of Palestinian engineers during the construction of the tunnel, as well the equipment used during it.

🔗 Israel Defense Forces (@IDF)