Israel discovers the “largest Hamas tunnel,” extending 4 kilometers under Gaza: “Yahya Sinwar is.”

In defiance of international calls for a truce, Israel’s army said that it had discovered a sizable Hamas tunnel while continuing its attack in Gaza. The largest tunnel dug by Hamas to date has been found, according to the Israeli army, close to the Erez border crossing. Little cars might fit through the tunnel, according to AFP, a news agency.

Israel said that the tunnel took years to build and cost millions of dollars. It had a communications network, drainage, power, and trains.

This enormous network of tunnels spreads out across a distance of more than four kilometers (2.5 miles). Its entrance is about 400 meters (1,310 feet) from the Erez Crossing, which Gazans use every day to go to Israel in order to work and get medical care in Israeli hospitals. Israel said that Mohammad Sinwar, the commander of Hamas’ Khan Yunis Battalion and brother of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, was the driving force behind the tunnel system.

This occurs as US President Joe Biden issues a strong warning and intense international pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has once again declared, “We will fight until the end.” We’ll succeed in all of our objectives, including taking down Hamas, releasing all of our captives, and making sure Gaza never serves as a haven for terrorist activity.

Following France, who expressed sadness at the large number of civilian deaths during the conflict, the UK and Germany also called for an “immediate and durable” ceasefire, citing the fact that “too many civilians are being killed.”

“It is absurd to ask for a broad and immediate ceasefire today in the hopes that it would somehow last forever when Israel must defend itself since Hamas brutally invaded Israel and continues to strike Israeli civilians with rockets on a daily basis. Germany and the UK issued a declaration demanding that Hamas lay down its weapons.

More than 18,800 people, largely women and children, have been slain in Gaza, according to officials, while revised Israeli numbers show that 1,139 individuals, mostly civilians, were killed and over 250 were kidnapped by Hamas during its October 7 onslaught in Israel.

The UN estimates that 1.9 million Gazans, or almost 80% of the population, have been displaced by the conflict, with much of Gaza in ruins as a result of Israel’s shelling.

The chairman of UNRWA, the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, Philippe Lazzarini, said, “I would not be surprised if people start dying of hunger, or a combination of hunger, disease, and weak immunity.”

Al-Shifa, the main hospital in the area, was dubbed a “bloodbath, with hundreds of injured patients inside, and new patients arriving every minute” by the World Health Organization.

“Patients with trauma injuries were being sutured on the floor while tens of thousands of displaced people are using the hospital building and grounds for shelter amid a severe shortage of water and food, the WHO said.”.