Israeli Security Source Claims: Hamas is Reinforcing its Tunnels and its Defeat is Far Off

SadaNews Translation - An Israeli security source warned on Tuesday evening about Hamas's ongoing efforts to reinforce its tunnels in light of the slow destruction process by the Israeli army.

The Hebrew Channel 14, as translated by SadaNews, quoted the source as saying that there is a lot of infrastructure that the Israeli army has not yet reached in the northern Gaza Strip, despite having destroyed more than 40 tunnels in two months.

According to the source, the situation in the central camps of the sector is much worse, indicating that the latest intelligence assessment shows that the tunnels there have only been addressed minimally and remain in a very similar state to what they were in on the eve of the October 7 attack.

The channel states: The bitter truth is that Hamas is far from defeat. This has been confirmed by the security source.

Israel estimates that Hamas has a tunnel reconstruction system that is faster than the Israeli army’s pace of detecting and destroying tunnels, along with huge financial resources and an advanced logistical system that allows it to maintain its most important strategic asset, which is the tunnels.

Israeli security sources state: The attempt to defeat Hamas without completely and rapidly destroying it is a dangerous illusion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that approximately 350 kilometers of tunnels have not yet been destroyed in Gaza, a staggering number that will take a long time to achieve, especially if we do not occupy the entire territory of the sector.