Captured Hamas Terrorist Spills Vital Details on Terror Tunnels by Michael Zeff - BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

Captured Hamas Terrorist Spills Vital Details on Terror Tunnels

By Michael Zeff June 6, 2016  BREAKING ISRAEL NEWS

“He uncovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.” Job 12:22 (The Israel Bible™)

IDF soldiers by the Gaza border fence. (Hillel Maeir/TPS)

The Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) cleared for publication on Sunday that it apprehended a member of the Hamas military wing Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades.

According to a statement made by the Shin Bet, the 17-year-old resident of Gaza was part of the Beit Lahiya battalion of al-Qassam Brigades. He was captured shortly after infiltrating Israel through the Gaza border fence during a large scale interagency operation conducted by the Shin Bet, the IDF, and the Israel Police in May.

According to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, the arrest and subsequent interrogation of the minor yielded invaluable information about Hamas’s tunnel-warfare capability as well as information about the the terrorist organization’s recruitment process and training in addition to intelligence about other operatives of Hamas’s military wing.

“The perpetrator conveyed valuable information regarding Hamas activities in the northern Gaza Strip and especially Hamas’s offensive tunnels,” stated an IDF spokesperson. “Additional information was revealed regarding Hamas’s methods of building tunnels, communication within the tunnels, and multiple digging locations intended to be used by Hamas to infiltrate Israel during conflict.”

According to the Shin Bet, the suspect revealed revealed the locations of numerous tunnel entrances inside the Gaza Strip, many of which are located in civilian complexes such as densely populated residential buildings, mosques, and schools.

“The tunnel entrances are located in such a way that deliberately puts the civilian population in Gaza at risk,” stated the Shin Bet communications department.

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An official Hamas newspaper, Al-Risalah, openly and proudly acknowledged this week that the terror group had renewed the digging of attack tunnels connecting the Gaza Strip to targeted Jewish communities in southern Israel.

And this just days after the international community pledged billions of dollars to Hamas-ruled Gaza, and while Western leaders are again putting pressure on Israel to restart peace talks with a Palestinian unity government that includes Hamas.

A reporter for Al-Risalah wrote that he personally visited one of the tunnels now under construction. Like many others, the tunnel had been destroyed by Israeli forces during the summer’s Gaza war. That these tunnels are being restored, at great financial cost, is seen as a victory in Gaza, even though they are likely to lead to another devastating war.

Israeli commentators have responded to the situation with great frustration. Western blindness and willingness to tacitly support Palestinian terror, so long as not too many Israelis die, has become the norm. But many Israelis are increasingly upset that their own government is playing along with this dangerous diplomatic game.

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UN's Ban Ki-Moon 'Shocked' by Hamas Terror Tunnels

UN's Ban Ki-Moon

UN's Ban Ki-Moon 'Shocked' 

by Hamas Terror Tunnels

By Julie Stahl

CBN News Middle East Correspondent

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

JERUSALEM, Israel -- In a week when the international community pledged billions of dollars to rebuild the Gaza Strip after this summer's conflict between Israel and Hamas, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was given a look at Hamas attack tunnels that ran under the border from the Gaza Strip to Israeli communities.

"I was shocked and alarmed by this underground tunnel, which had been used for penetration for terrorist purpose[s]. I have been repeatedly condemning these rocket attacks from Hamas by the air," Ban told reporters.

The secretary-general made his comments on a trip to Kibbutz Nirim, where he met with the family of Daniel Turgeman, the four year old killed by a Hamas mortar launched from a U.N. school.

"We told the secretary-general that Daniel was killed in his home by a mortar bomb that was fired from a school," his aunt, Maya Turgeman, told CBN News. "In that school [there] were staying at the time refugees that Hamas was willingly putting in danger while firing from there to civilian targets."

Turgeman said the U.N. must do what it's meant to do: "That is protecting human rights, and protecting human rights means standing and saying that Hamas is a terrorist organization, not looking for peace that they target civilians."

Earlier Tuesday, Ban visited the Gaza Strip where he condemned Israel for striking U.N. properties during the summer conflict. He mentioned the U.N. investigation of Israel, but he never said anything about investigating Hamas.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, Christian parliamentarians with the International Israel Allies Caucus issued a resolution, in part calling for a U.N. investigation of Hamas.

"The conflict, the rockets, the barrage, the total disregard for human rights on either side of the border that Hamas represents, rightly labeled a terrorist organization in our view. You cannot negotiate with people who embrace terrorism as an end to their means," Member of Parliament Dr. James Lunney with Canada's House of Commons told CBN News.

The resolution came a day after British parliamentarians symbolically voted to recognize a Palestinian state. The passed by a vote of 274 to12, 364 lawmakers (56 percent) were absent during the vote, and Prime Minister David Cameron abstained. The move by liberal parliamentarians doesn't change British foreign policy, but it does give impetus to the Palestinian push for statehood.

The Christian MPs told CBN News calling for unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state would have repercussions.

"I'm very angry about it. It's absolutely not helpful what's now going on in different parliaments of Europe," said C.G. van der Staaij, Member of Parliament with the Dutch House of Representatives. "It's saying to the Palestinians violence is a good way. It's helping the Jihadists."

"I saw it among Latin America already," Guatemalan parliamentarian Pedro Galvez said. "There have been a lot of countries that recognize the Palestinian Authority and now one year later, two years later they have been having a lot of trouble in their countries. They have been having a lot of trouble with some of these people and they want now to reverse their decisions and they have understand [sic] that being a supporter of Israel it's being a supporter of democracy."

Hamas Already Digging New Terror Tunnels

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A senior government official in Jerusalem on Sunday told the Israeli press that Hamas is already digging new terror tunnels and smuggling a new stockpile of missiles into the Gaza Strip in preparation for its next war against the Jewish state.

“Hamas did not wait a single moment after the last round of fighting, and began its rearmament in anticipation of another round,” the official said.

Indeed, Gaza-based Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar vowed over the weekend that the ceasefire reached just two weeks ago would soon be violated in the most blatant way as the terror groups “built new tunnels” with which to threaten Israelis.

The discovery of dozens of terror tunnels running from Gaza into southern Israel shocked most Israelis, particularly those living within “tunnel distance” from the volatile coastal enclave.

Many Israeli residents of what is known as the “Gaza envelope” still have not returned home, and many who have say they no longer feel safe.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken harsh criticism for agreeing to end the war before Hamas was fully defeated. Most Israelis do not believe that expected guarantees by America, Europe or Egypt can be relied upon to prevent future Hamas attacks.

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