This confirmation comes after weeks of speculation and follows reports in December suggesting the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) were testing the method of seawater pumping into tunnels.
After coming under fire for claiming that the United Nations had no knowledge of Hamas' tunnel system in the Gaza Strip, a spokesman for the global body's chief offered a clarification to the Tazpit Press Service.
Despite the presence of a Hamas terror tunnel system in the Gaza Strip now thought to be larger in scale than the London Underground, the United Nations insists it had no idea the tunnels were being built.
Hamas "opted to invest precious resources in building terrorist infrastructure used to harm Israeli civilians and IDF forces, while cynically exploiting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip," the military statement said.
Eurostar on Saturday cancelled all services connecting the UK to Europe due to flooded railway tunnels, disrupting travel plans for those heading from London to Paris, Brussels, and Amsterdam for the New Year, CNN reported.
The Israel Defence Forces on Saturday released footage of tunnels used by the Hamas terrorists, further highlighting that the tunnels of Hamas general headquarters have been located and destroyed in the northern Gaza Strip, adding that those tunnels were an electricity network, ventilation a
The Israeli search for terror tunnels is being aided by a trove of intelligence seized by soldiers, namely 65 million digital files and a half-million physical documents, the Israel Defense Forces disclosed on Thursday.
In a message posted in Arabic on X, the IDF urged residents in 15 identified blocks south of Wadi Gaza to move to shelters. The areas include the Al-Bureij refugee camp.
Expanding their offensive against Hamas, Israel Defence Forces located and destroyed three terror tunnel shafts belonging to the Hamas terror organization near the Rantisi Hospital and in the nearby High School on Wednesday.
Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu said that the old tunnels will be repaired and new tunnels will be built in Shimla City as he inaugurated a tunnel near Dhali in Shimla on Monday.
A massive tunnel system of Hamas terrorists, the entrance of which, is located only 400 meters from the Erez Crossing was discovered by the Israel Defence Forces on Sunday.