Press Bulletin · 9 February 2016
CP-2016-020
Israeli military says top mission is countering Gaza tunnels
— Associated Press (credited at the end of the item)
Transcribed from the clipping
JERUSALEM — Israel's top general said today that the military's number one mission for the coming year is to counter the renewed threat posed by militant attack tunnels from Gaza. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said Gaza's Hamas rulers have been rebuilding the sophisticated network of underground tunnels that Israel targeted during the 2014 war.
He said destroying this network is the military's top priority for 2016, adding that it's not deceived by the current relative calm along the Israel-Gaza border.
"Hamas is diverting great resources to restore what it considers a pattern that allows it to enter Israel discreetly and carry out attacks," Eisenkot said at an event at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, a college north of Tel Aviv. "We have the most advanced abilities in the world and still this is a major challenge." — Associated Press
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Context added by this archive
Whole item transcribed. Photo caption (above the headline, belonging to the same item): "Israeli soldiers enter a tunnel discovered near the Israel Gaza border in 2013. Israel's military chief Lt. Gen.
Gadi Eisenkot said that Gaza's Hamas rulers have been rebuilding the sophisticated network of underground tunnels that Israel damaged during the 2014 war." Credit: Associated Press / file. Note the caption says Israel "damaged" the tunnels where the body text says "targeted". Same AP item as s007_3 (The Herald, Indiana) on the same date, cut differently.
Cite this clipping
"Israeli military says top mission is countering Gaza tunnels," Press Bulletin, 9 February 2016. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2016-020. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2016-020
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