Combat engineers have poured 30,000 cubic meters of concrete to permanently seal a vast Hamas tunnel complex in southern Gaza, the IDF confirmed. The tunnel is the same one where Lt. Hadar Goldin was held after being killed and abducted in 2014.
The IDF confirmed early Tuesday that combat engineers used 30,000 cubic meters of concrete to permanently seal a vast Hamas tunnel complex in southern Gaza, the same network where Lt. Hadar Goldin was held after being killed and abducted in 2014. The announcement, which repeats the volume figure previously reported, comes hours after the military released footage of the sealed 16-km complex on Monday evening, linking it explicitly to Goldin's captivity.
As The Zioneer reported on Monday at 20:37 Jerusalem, the IDF initially announced the completion of the sealing operation, stating that engineering troops from the Gaza Division and Southern Command, alongside the Yahalom special forces unit, had used over 30,000 cubic meters of concrete on a tunnel containing roughly 80 living quarters that served as a Hamas Rafah Brigade command center. Later that evening, at 22:37 Jerusalem, the IDF released official footage of the sealed complex. The current update provides no new facts beyond the concrete volume and the explicit confirmation of the link to Goldin.
The tunnel network, located in the Rafah area, was used by Hamas operatives for a decade following the 2014 conflict, according to an IDF source. The military described it as one of the largest tunnel networks discovered in the ongoing war, and the operation marks the conclusion of a long-term engineering effort to neutralize it.
No further details on the exact method of concrete injection or the precise location within the complex have been released. The report of the tunnel's size and the number of living quarters came from the initial IDF statement, which has not been independently verified.
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