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Dear Khani,

This morning, our team broke an explosive investigation into the Israeli army's "unbridled war on Gaza's underground."

The investigation by Local Call and +972 Magazine reveals that the Israeli military intensively shelled residential neighborhoods in Gaza and weaponized toxic gas released from bombs in an attempt to kill senior militants in underground tunnels when they lacked intelligence on the exact location of their whereabouts.

Some of these strikes are known to have killed hostages and wiped out entire Palestinian families and neighborhoods. The investigation is based on conversations with 15 Israeli Military Intelligence and Shin Bet officers who have been involved in tunnel-targeting operations since October 7, 2023. 

Directly from our reporting:

[W]hen targeting senior commanders in the group, the Israeli military authorized the killing of “triple-digit numbers” of Palestinian civilians as “collateral damage,” and maintained close real-time coordination with U.S. officials regarding the expected casualty figures.

Some of these strikes, which were the deadliest in the war and often used American bombs, are known to have killed Israeli hostages despite concerns raised ahead of time by military officers. Moreover, the lack of precise intelligence meant that in at least three major strikes, the army dropped several 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs that killed scores of civilians — part of a strategy known as “tiling” — without succeeding in killing the intended target.

“Pinpointing a target inside a tunnel is hard, so you attack a [wide] radius,” a Military Intelligence source told +972 and Local Call. Given that the army would have only a vague approximation of the target’s location, the source explained, this radius would be as large as “tens and sometimes hundreds of meters,” meaning these bombing operations collapsed multiple apartment buildings on their occupants without warning. “Suddenly you see how someone in the IDF really behaves when given the opportunity to wipe out an entire neighborhood — and they do it,” the source added.

You can read the in-depth investigation in full here: "Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground."

With determination,

Suhad Babaa

President & Executive Director, Just Vision

Co-Publisher and Co-Director, Local Call

Producer, Boycott

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