What We Saw in Rafah's Tunnels

Another hole led to a tunnel where the IDF said Hamas recently executed six hostages. It was straight down and could have been mistaken for a water well if it had not been built inside a children’s room in a first-floor apartment. The walls were blue and had been painted with a child-sized Mickey Mouse and Snow White, along with a large single English word: “LOVE.”

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The IDF reckoned the hostages had been held there for weeks. One of the clues was the large sack of urine-filled bottles they found. Israel said it believes there are about 50 hostages still alive and hidden in the many miles of uncleared tunnels.

The IDF invited ABC News, along with a small group of journalists, to see those tunnels and the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow strip of land along the Gaza-Egypt border.


Ed Morrissey

Interesting. ABC actually uses proper attribution for Gaza casualty figures, noting they come from Hamas, which is at least basic for credibility. The main takeaway, although the reporter doesn't explicitly connect this dot, is how much Hamas integrated its war operations in residential locations. 

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