On Monday, Reuters reported that Israeli forces have located what is believed to be the largest weapons production site discovered in Gaza thus far.
There are underground workshops in which long-range missiles capable of hitting targets in northern Israel have been produced.
Additionally, the IDF believes the workshops produced copies of standard munitions, with a conduit to a tunnel network used to transport the weapons throughout the Gaza Strip. The workshop is said to be located in the Bureji area. "...From the elevator, they contain the rockets in a place which is safe and then it goes down to other areas inside the tunnel system," chief military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said.
"In one place you make the rockets, another place you launch," he said. It is but the latest discovery in the massive tunnel networking system by the IDF since the invasion of Gaza was launched. Israel asserts that Hamas locates its tunnel systems in civilian areas on purpose, a claim that Hamas denies.
The Future of Gaza
The invasion of Gaza is Israel's largest-ever operation in Gaza. HNGN recently reported that the United States is currently looking toward options for the future of a Palestinian state in Gaza, with several Arab nations volunteering to assist in the rebuilding of Gaza. However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected the idea of an independent Palestinian state located next to Israel.
Politico reports that Israel's President Isaac Herzog said Sunday that the removal of Palestinians is not the government's official policy, despite the assertions of some members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government."I'm saying outright, officially and unequivocally, this is not the Israeli position," he said during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press". "A minister can say whatever he wants. I may not like it, but this is Israeli politics," Herzog told host Kristen Welker.
