PM Benjamin Netanyahu pushes back on US President's Joe Biden claims on the hostage deal.
During the raids, soldiers found a terror infrastructure in each of the 100 locations they scanned.
The decision came less than two days after Israel opened the Erez Crossing and Ashdod port to transfer humanitarian aid.
Israeli media reported that the incident occurred in northern Khan Yunis. While troops were searching the area, terrorists emerged from an underground shaft within the rubble and fired at the troops.
The three tunnels had been discovered in either 2014 or in 2019 and had been struck in previous operations.
Four terrorists killed • unconfirmed reports of IDF strikes in southern Lebanon
Can Israel extricate itself from this quagmire? Not easily, and probably not under the current government.
IDF immediately targeted the structure with a fighter jet and an IAF aircraft, resulting in both the cell's elimination and the destruction of the terrorist infrastructure.
Halevi's statements come following the IDF's withdrawal from Al-Shifa Hospital where it completed one of the largest operations since the beginning of the war.
In the middle of a civilian olive grove, soldiers found and subsequently destroyed a rocket launcher.