Israeli military discovers underground weapons factory in Gaza

Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun.

The military said that in addition to missiles, the factories also produced copies or variants of ammunition such as mortar shells, and were linked to a network of underground tunnels used to transport weapons to military units across the Gaza Strip.

On Monday, the Israeli military took a group of reporters to visit the facility in the Bureij area of ​​the central Israeli enclave, an area that has been devastated by weeks of bombing and ground military operations.

A series of metal tubes and parts as well as ammunition casings were piled up in one area of ​​the factory and in another area there were metal racks containing missiles, along with an elevator leading down to an underground tunnel.

“With this elevator, they can store missiles in a secure area and transport them to other areas using a tunnel system,” said Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari.

“They manufacture missiles in one place, launch them in another.”

The factory area is the most recent area captured by the Israeli military since the conflict broke out in Gaza, an operation carried out in response to a Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7.

Israeli officials have said Hamas deliberately placed military infrastructure, including tunnels, in residential areas to make it more difficult to attack them. Hamas has denied the allegations and said Israel attacks civilians indiscriminately.

More than 22,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli military operations, according to Palestinian officials, and much of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been forced to flee their homes to a cramped area in southern Gaza.

The operation, Israel's largest ever in Gaza, was carried out in response to a Hamas attack in southern Israel on October 7 that killed more than 1,200 people and took about 240 hostages, according to Israeli estimates.

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