Israeli military officer dedicates tunnel demolition to slain uncle
Israeli soldiers in the northern Gaza area of Beit Hanoun discovered a civilian home connected to several tunnels on Monday.
An Israeli soldier outside a civilian home in the northern Gaza area of Beit Hanoun where shafts leading to several tunnels were discovered on Nov. 6, 2023. Screenshot from IDF
The IDF released footage of the soldiers destroying the tunnels.
The team’s leader, Capt. (Res.) R. dedicated the demolition of the tunnels to his uncle, Ofir Libstein, who was the head of the Shaar HaNegev Regional Council. The council governs 11 communities located adjacent to the northwest corner of the Gaza Strip. It includes some of the communities most devastated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, such as Kibbutz Kfar Aza and Nahal Oz.
Libstein and his son, Nitzan, were killed on Oct. 7 while trying to defend Kfar Aza from the Hamas attack.
“I want, not as an act of revenge, but as an act of defending the homeland, to dedicate this explosion to Ofir, said Capt. R.
Over the past day, IDF troops captured a Hamas stronghold in the northern Gaza Strip, seizing anti-tank missiles and launchers, weapons, and intelligence material, the IDF said on Tuesday morning.
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I hope the Greens are ashamed of their disgraceful conduct and walkout from Parliament – after reading this article. They must renounce their inhumane position and make it clear that the war crimes committed on October 7 and the barrage of rockets fired indiscriminately into Israeli population centres since then from Gaza – each a war crime – are unequivocally condemned by the Greens.