The vast spider web of underground tunnels used by Hamas to transport militants, hostages and weapons around under the Gaza Strip is “something we can’t even imagine,” according to “Fauda” creator Avi Issacharoff.
Issacharoff — an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist and former member of the Israel Defense Forces’ ultra-elite unit who co-wrote the award-winning Yes series hit “Fauda” — visited Gaza several times before Hamas took over the territory in 2007, according to the Times of Israel.
He said the grids extend under the entire 140-square-mile Gaza Strip and give Hamas the ability to launch swift, Viet Cong-style hit-and-run attacks on invading Israeli forces.
“It’s very dense, it’s a huge tunnel system that allows Hamas to transport terrorists and hostages – but also motorcycles and cannons and rockets and everything you can imagine,” Issacharoff told the media on Sunday as he spoke about the difficulty of the ground invasion inside. dense urban enclaves.
He added that the tunnel is exactly where Hamas members fled after the October 7 attacks, when they fired rockets into Israel and sent gunmen across the fortified border to kill and kidnap Israeli civilians.
The network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip is almost unimaginable, according to former IDF soldier and TV writer Avi Issacharoff.IDF / X Issacharoff (left) and “Fauda” co-creator Lior Raz set the third season of their hit show in Gaza. AP
“They all went underground, under the Gaza City house,” Issacharoff said, according to the outlet. “They hide behind human shields.”
Issacharoff and “Fauda” co-creator Lior Raz set the Netflix streaming show’s third season in Gaza — though it wasn’t filmed there because Israelis have been barred from the land since the Jewish state withdrew its troops and settlers in 2005, the Times of Israel said.
But Gaza has become a war zone again after Hamas attacks, sparking the bloodiest Israeli-Palestinian conflict since Israel’s creation 75 years ago.
Hamas has long used the tunnel to transport food, terrorists and weapons back and forth undetected. Getty Images The IDF has to deal with the threat of tunnels as it tries to crush Hamas following the group’s October 7 attack. Israeli Army/AFP via Getty Images
The Israeli army – which has vowed to crush Hamas – has cut off the northern part of the region and hit it with airstrikes ahead of an expected ground battle with Hamas terrorists.
Issacharoff said the IDF forces were approaching the center of Gaza City and the Shifa Hospital, the city’s largest medical complex, which the IDF said was located above the terrorist headquarters.
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“I swear, every child in Gaza knows there is a Hamas headquarters under Shifa, but no one talks about it,” Issacharoff said, according to the Times of Israel.
The Palestinian death toll has surpassed 10,000 and includes many women and children, according to Hamas officials.
An actor waits for his scene in the hit show “Fauda,” which airs on Netflix. AP The hit show will reportedly return for a fifth season. AP A Palestinian man walks inside a smuggling tunnel during repairs in Rafah near Gaza’s border with Egypt January 22, 2009.REUTERS
That’s likely to get worse as the violence continues, Issacharoff said.
“This is not a surgical operation,” Issacharoff said. “It’s a war. It is a war in which the enemy has established itself within the local population and that is the goal of Hamas, because it makes the other side look like demons, like war criminals.”
About 1,400 Israelis were also killed — most of them killed during the initial cross-border Hamas attack. Another 240 people were taken hostage and remain in Gaza.
The tunnel extends under the entire 140-square-mile area, Issacharoff said. Getty Images
Issacharoff added that he thinks any post-war plan needs to include the Palestinian Authority – but that would require talks between Israel and the group, which have yet to happen, the outlet said.
“I don’t see any kind of victory coming out of this mess,” Issacharoff said.
With Postal wire
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