Israel vows to destroy all Gaza attack tunnels by year-end

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has announced his country’s strategy to destroy tunnels used to launch attacks on Israeli soil from the Gaza Strip.”By the end of 2018, we will eliminate all the Hamas attack tunnels … we may even manage to do this sooner, but the task is to destroy them all by the end of the year,” Lieberman said Sunday.Read more: ‘Palestinians want reconciliation’ between Fatah and Hamas”Destroying the network of offensive tunnels is an essential component in our policy of systematically damaging the strategic abilities of Hamas.”The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that they have destroyed a cross-border tunnel dug by Hamas to stage attacks in Israel. IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus said Israeli airstrikes hit the Gazan side of the “terror tunnel” on Saturday.

 

Source: Israel vows to destroy all Gaza attack tunnels by year-end | News | DW | 15.01.2018