Defense Minster Moshe Ya’alon visited the Gaza Division on Thursday morning, where he assessed the situation in light of recent events along the country’s border with Gaza.
During his visit, Ya’alon said that “Over the past two days, Hamas has attempted to disrupt the work of IDF soldiers along the Gaza security fence. During their operation, the soldiers exposed another tunnel; an attack tunnel that violates our sovereignty and enters into our territory.”
We will not be intimidated by these threats made by Hamas. We will continue our operations in light of these violations of our sovereignty, until we find and expose the last of the tunnels. Since Hamas fired, we responded and will continue to respond with aggression against all provocations made by Hamas, so that the situation will not escalate and so that Hamas will not continue to fire. I would like to commend the IDF soldiers and officers in the region for their determined actions that led to the exposure of tunnels in recent weeks.”