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Hamas is feared to be using fuel intended to help the humanitarian effort in Gaza to power its underground tunnel network. The Israel Defence Forces have published aerial imagery supposedly showing Hamas storage tanks containing 'more than 500,000 litres of fuel'. Military experts are concerned that the terror group has begun exploiting the crisis response to Israeli airstrikes by seizing critical fuel supplies. The labyrinthine system of tunnels snaking below the Gaza Strip, thought to stretch for hundreds of miles, is thought to be Hamas's key defence against an Israeli ground invasion. The tactic relies on constant fuel supplies. Yesterday...

Israel-Gaza war news: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will use ‘sponge bombs’ as Israel begins its fight through a network of Hamas tunnels under Gaza, Telegraph has reported. The ‘sponge bombs’ that Israel plans to use for the tunnel war, are not explosives, but chemical bombs that would be used to seal off gaps. The ‘sponge bombs’ create a sudden explosion of foam that rapidly expands and then hardens. However, there has been no official confirmation from Israel on ‘sponge bombs’. The army has set up a mock tunnel system at the Tze’Elim army base near the border with Gaza....