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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-861413
IDF Working to Prevent Future Invasion from Gaza
(Jerusalem Post) Yonah Jeremy Bob - During my most recent visit inside Gaza on Thursday, I saw new IDF positions in northern Gaza designed to serve as an additional forward defense line to prevent any potential invasion from Hamas forces getting anywhere near residential Israel. The Israeli villages of Kfar Aza, Nahal Oz, and Sderot were easily visible from Gaza. I saw a dozen explosions or smoke from explosions from fighting Hamas's reconstituted forces in Beit Hanun and from blowing up more Hamas tunnels. IDF sources said that nearly all of the strategic Hamas tunnels - containing weapons factories, senior officials, and intelligence and communications centers - had been destroyed, and that most tunnels being found and destroyed in Beit Hanun or Beit Lahiya these days are much smaller tactical maneuvering tunnels. Only about 5% of the buildings in Beit Hanun appeared to be still standing.