Iranian support for Hamas
History
1980s–1990s
1995 Kfar Darom bus attack
1996 Jaffa Road bus bombings
Second Intifada
Hamas seizure of the Gaza Strip
2008–2009 Gaza War
Tunnel warfare
The idea of [digging] tunnels… Today there are 360 kilometers of tunnels in Gaza. There are more than 360 kilometers of tunnels underground. I won’t go into details on this. Two people came up with the idea of digging these tunnels: The first is the martyred commander
Iranian Brigadier-General Abdolfattah Ahvazian, adviser to the Commander of the Quds Force, said in November 2023 regarding Soleimani’s role in the construction and proliferation of the Gaza tunnel network:
Setelah Haji Qasem [Soleimani] syahid, orang-orang Hamas menunjukkan kepada kami sebuah film. Saya menonton filmnya, dan menurut masyarakat Hamas di sana, Haji Qasem telah pergi ke Gaza. Dia berkata kepada mereka: ‘Mengapa kamu duduk diam saja?’ Mereka menjawab: ‘Haji, tidak mungkin.’ Jadi dia memberi perintah untuk mengambil a
The other thing I would like to point out is that the resistance axis, which planned with the Palestinians to build more than 400 kilometers of tunnels under an area of land that did not exceed 40 square kilometers, took various possible “scenarios” into consideration. These scenarios include [Israel] flooding the tunnels with water, pumping toxic gas into them, or blowing up parts of them. Therefore, the Palestinian side in the tunnels knows very well how to deal with all possible challenges.
Gaza war
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