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2024-01-10 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

IDF probe finds tank shelling caused blast that led to deaths of 6 combat engineers

[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday released details of its initial probe of a deadly blast in the central Gaza Strip a day prior, in which six combat engineers were killed and several others were wounded.

The reservists were killed when explosives intended for demolishing a Hamas tunnel in Bureij detonated prematurely.

According to the IDF’s initial probe of the blast, the early explosion of the tunnel system was caused by a tank shelling.

Combat engineers had been preparing the tunnel for demolition, rigging the underground passages with explosives.

Half an hour before the detonation was supposed to be carried out, a tank stationed near the detonating cord fired shells at a nearby building after identifying suspicious movement.

According to the probe, one of the shells hit an electricity pole, and the blast somehow activated the detonating cord, leading to the premature massive explosion of the tunnel system while the combat engineers were still working on preparing it for demolition.

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