Israeli military says it latest air strikes on the Gaza Strip has killed a top Hamas weapons maker and several fighters, targeting the militants’ vast tunnel network beneath the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The Israeli military statement said two separate strikes eliminated a leading Hamas armorer, Mahsein Abu Zina, and fighters engaged in anti-tank or ground-to-ground rocket fire.
Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel had one target and that is Hamas’s terrorists in Gaza, their infrastructure, their commanders, bunkers and communications rooms, to totally obliterate the threat to regional peace.
Chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said combat engineers were using explosive devices to destroy a tunnel network built by Hamas that stretches for hundreds of kilometres beneath Gaza.
The military said troops have advanced to the heart of the densely-populated city while Hamas says its fighters have inflicted heavy losses.
