IDF Shows Underground Terror Tunnel With Elevator To Safe House

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF released Saturday evening footage from its operations in the northern Gaza strip, including a tunnel which had an elevator system operating in it leading to a safe house underground.

The 5th Reserve Infantry Brigade combat team, operating under the Southern Command’s 162nd Division, engaged in combat in the Al-Shati neighborhood in the northern region of the Gaza strip. The brigade’s combat team, in collaboration with the Air Force and the Yahalam Special Operations Engineering Unit, destroyed a tunnel leading to a Hamas hideout equipped with an elevator, similar to one previously discovered that was presumably used by Hamas’s military commander Mohammad Deif.

Elevator controls

Rocket launchers found in Al-Shati neighborhood

The soldiers also seized numerous weapons, night vision and surveillance equipment, intelligence documents as well as rocket launchers which they destroyed.

Currently the infantry brigade, involved in much of the fighting in Gaza since Octoer, has completed its mission and was rotated out, with fresh troops taking its place.

5th Brigade Commander Colonel Tal Koritzky expressed pride in his troops at a ceremony marking their departure from the Gaza Strip. “I am proud of us for our stubborn fighting while sticking to our mission. It’s about quality and determined combat for the sake of others, for our society, for the future,” he told the troops.

“I am confident that when the brigade is called upon for the next mission, we will stand ready and respond ‘Here we are’, simply because that’s who we are,” the commander added. “There’s no one but us. I had the privilege to fight alongside you, and I am proud to command you.”