Israel takes control of massive weapons complex below densely populated Gaza area

January 9, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Israeli soldiers have taken control of Hamas’s Bureij Battalion headquarters, which included a massive underground weapons manufacturing facility.

Long range rockets in a Hamas weapons production facility captured by Israeli forces in Bureij, in central Gaza. Photo by IDF Spokesperson.

The Israel Defence Forces said it is the largest such site found since the beginning of the war,

The complex was located in and beneath the densely populated area of Bureij in central Gaza.

Soldiers of the IDF’s 188th and Golani brigades uncovered several tunnel shafts reaching a depth of approximately 30 meters and, following precise intelligence, exposed a terrorist stronghold used to manufacture weapons.

The soldiers also located many other underground production facilities used for the manufacturing of long-range rockets, explosives and accuracy enhancers for Hamas’s mortar shells, light weapons and UAVs. Additionally, the forces killed dozens of terrorists in the area.

In the area, soldiers found components for long-range rockets that could be fired from the Gaza Strip as far as northern Israel, as well as mortar shells, explosives and ammunition. Some of the rockets produced have a range of 100 km.

The IDF said the area was connected by underground tunnel shafts to wider tunnel network used to transport weapons to Hamas battalions throughout  Gaza.

Photos and videos released by the military showed rocket components, moulds for making parts, an underground elevator shaft, and assorted weapons.

Since the beginning of the war, Hamas has indiscriminately fired thousands of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel. Iran is known to provide support and know-how to help Hamas produce its own rockets.

At least 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s attacks on Israeli communities near the Gaza border on Oct. 7. The number of men, women, children, soldiers and foreigners held captive in Gaza by Hamas is now believed to be 129. Other people remain unaccounted for as Israeli authorities continue to identify bodies and search for human remains.

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2 Responses to “Israel takes control of massive weapons complex below densely populated Gaza area”
  1. Morris Givner says:

    It is obvious that funding in the hundreds of billions of dollars has been going to Gaza for years from the U.S.,U.K,EU,Norway,Canada and all the Muslim nations under the pretence that the money will be used for Palestinian charities when it fact it was and is still being used for billion dollar military underground tunnels and the entire Gaza is viewed by the Palestinians as a major launching base for a future massive attack to conquer Israel with Iran directing the simultaneous launching of thousands of rocket bombs from Northern Lebanon to the heart of Israel.The reality is that Palestinians in Israel itself,Gaza,West Bank and Arabs throughout the World support the killing of Jews and the destruction of Israel consistent with the teachings of their theology going back 1400 years and proclaimed daily by their religious and political leaders throughout the world.Today,non-believers are tortured and murdered in Pakistan,the Middle East,Africa,Indonesia and in British prisons.Israel must demand that Western nations stop funding the Palestinians as the goal of the current resurgent Arab Empire is to convert the World to Islam as it has always been for the past 1400 years.Western nations should be reminded that their corporations built up Hitler Fascist Regime in the 1930s and made the Holocaust possible and today Western funding of the Palestinians will enable an Arab-Iranian led Holocaust against tiny and democratic Israel.

    • Morris Givner says:

      We now know that Hizbollah has over 100,000 rocket missiles in Lebanon aimed at Israel.The Israeli Government should inform Hizbollah,the Lebanese Government and the World in the clearest possible language that if Hizbollah unleashes these rocket bombs against Israel,she’ll immediately bomb the sites and the surrounding areas in Lebanon and make them into an unliveable desert.

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