Chilling footage released on Monday evening showed Yochved Lifshitz, 85, and Nurit Cooper, 79, being handed over to the Red Cross at the Rafah crossing by black-clad masked Hamas gunmen. 'Shalom' is the Hebrew word for peace and harmony.
Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, today told reporters she was transported via 'Gaza Metro'. Palestinian Islamist fighters operate in a complex network of reinforced tunnelsElderly Israeli hostages who last night were released by their Hamas captors have told of how they were abducted to Gaza via a 'spiderweb' of complex tunnels.
Sharone said her mother was taken to Gaza via the notorious underground tunnels after being relieved of her jewellery and watch. Hamas said it released the pair for humanitarian reasons, days after freeing an American woman and her teenage daughter. Yocheved Lifshitz, 85, who was released as hostage by Palestinian Hamas militants, is seen with her husband Oded, 83, who is still being held
The IDF in 2021 launched an operation to destroy and seal several tunnels, but it is thought the underground network, dubbed the 'Gaza Metro', is far more complex and well constructed than Israeli officials can comprehend. He also said the above-ground battles would be just as bloody, with Hamas able to hide throughout civilian buildings to force Israeli army units into bitter close-quarter urban conflict.'It is likely that drones will be used to drop bombs on Israeli forces, and that improvised explosive devices will be deployed to slow them down,' he said.
'Some are probably booby-trapped. Preparing to fight in such terrain... would require extensive intelligence... which the Israelis may not have,' he added. And there are 'inherent risks' of friendly fire given 'the difficulties of situational awareness', Galer said. Israeli soldiers aim their weapons toward their colleague dressed as a Palestinian militant, while he exits from a fake tunnel, during training session simulating urban fighting at the Zeelim army base, southern Israel, Jan. 4, 2022
Former UN senior advisor and one of the world's most experienced hostage negotiators Scott Walker said: 'It is understandable and reasonable for IDF to be preparing for an armed hostage rescue - but these operations are some of the riskiest. Tunnels were among Hamas' most effective tools during the 2014 war with Israel, with militants using them to move weapons, enter the Jewish state, ambush IDF soldiers, and at times even return to Gaza through the underground passages.
Hamas uses the network to hide rockets and other munitions, facilitate communication within their organisations, conceal militants, launch attacks, and conduct training A Palestinian man runs amid the rubble of a building hit in an Israeli air strike on October 13
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