IDF rigs Hamas tunnels with explosives, collapses passages in Gaza

Israeli Defense Forces are reporting the destruction of an underground passage network used by Hamas militants.

The IDF posted a video to its social media on Friday claiming to show the bombing of terror tunnels in Gaza.

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"IDF troops uncovered tunnel shafts, rigged them with explosives, and neutralized Hamas’s terrorist tunnels during special operations inside Gaza," the Israeli military wrote on social media platform X on Friday.

According to those who closely track the Iranian-backed terror group, as well as admissions by its own leaders, Hamas has built an approximately 300-mile subterranean system that snakes beneath civilian homes, schools and hospitals in urban areas of the Gaza Strip.

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Many officials in Israel believe that the majority of the 240 hostages, held captive by Hamas since the Oct. 7 assault, are hidden somewhere inside this underground network.

Yocheved Lifshitz, one of four hostages released so far, told the media that she"walked for two or three kilometers on wet ground" after her abduction.