📢 Forum Update - Hello everyone! I've made an improvement to the forum that should make following active discussions much easier. Beginning today, forum topics will display the most recent replies first (while keeping the original topic post at the top), so you no longer have to navigate through multiple pages to find the latest conversation. This change also helps improve the browsing experience in long-running discussions with many pages of replies. If you notice anything that doesn't seem to be working correctly or have any feedback, please let me know. — Richard G. Israeli forces ‘deep in the Strip, at the gates of Gaza City’: Israeli army engineers on Thursday morning began a massive operation to destroy Hamas tunnels in areas of the Gaza Strip currently under Israeli military control, Walla! reported. Mine-clearing and tunnel-destroying specialty units have been combined for the operation, which includes the use of robots and explosive devices to demolish the shafts and tunnels, detonate booby traps and kill terrorists. The forces will also examine the tunnel shafts to see if any of them lead to Gaza City, the epicenter of Hamas. “We will collapse the shafts and tunnels on them. It will become an extermination ground,” a senior officer in the Southern Command told Walla! “They made a mistake, they chose a territory from which it is impossible to escape. They will die in the tunnels,” the officer said. IDF troops have already destroyed some 100 tunnels, the report said. Hamas sent a group of around 100 women and children to act as human shields during a battle with Israeli forces on Tuesday at the terror group’s Central Jabaliya Battalion compound. “We are prepared for more cases of such cynical and blatant use of the population,” an IDF officer told Ynet. IDF took over the Hamas stronghold in northern Gaza, killing the commander of the Jabaliya Battalion along with a large number of other terrorists. Two Israeli soldiers were killed as troops were withdrawing after capturing the compound. Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen spoke on Wednesday with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger. Cohen said he had demanded that she immediately visit the hostages in Gaza and provide them with all of the rights that such prisoners are entitled to under international law. “If the Red Cross fails to visit the hostages, held by the terrorist organization Hamas, it has no reason to exist,” he told her. https://www.israel365news.com/378323/israeli-forces-deep-in-the-strip-at-the-gates-of-gaza-city/ 
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Army engineers begin destroying Hamas tunnels:
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Hamas uses 100 women and children as human shields:
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Israel demands Red Cross access to hostages: