Israel-Hamas war live updates: Israeli Air Force strikes 150 underground Hamas targets in overnight attack
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The Israeli Air Force attacked roughly 150 underground Hamas targets in northern Gaza overnight as Israel continues its effort to dismantle the terrorist organization’s military capabilities in the enclave.
“During the attack, terrorists of the terrorist organization Hamas were eliminated and combat tunnels, underground combat spaces and other underground terrorist infrastructures were destroyed,” the IAF wrote in a post on X.
Israel has been attempting to disable Hamas’s vast network of tunnels in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war on Oct. 7.
The Israeli military claimed Hamas is hiding key entries and exits for its 300-mile tunnel network beneath Gaza’s main medical center, al-Shifa Hospital.
“Hamas has turned hospitals into command and control centers and hideouts for Hamas terrorists and commanders,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, Israel’s chief military spokesman, said at a news conference, according to Reuters.
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Israel-Hamas war: How we got here
2005: Israel unilaterally withdraws from the Gaza Strip more than three decades after winning the territory from Egypt in the Six-Day War.
2006: Terrorist group Hamas wins a Palestinian legislative election.
2007: Hamas seizes control of Gaza in a civil war.
2008: Israel launches military offensive against Gaza after Palestinian terrorists fired rockets into the town of Sderot.
2023: Hamas launches the biggest attack on Israel in 50 years, in an early-morning ambush Oct. 7, firing thousands of rockets and sending dozens of militants into Israeli towns.
Terrorists killed more than 1,200 Israelis, wounded more than 4,200, and took at least 200 hostage.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to announce, “We are at war,” and vowed Hamas would pay “a price it has never known.”
The Gaza Health Ministry — which is controlled by Hamas — reported at least 3,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 12,500 injured since the war began.