Israeli media quoted Adina Moshe, a former Israeli prisoner held by the resistance in Gaza, as saying that the Israeli Internal Security Service (Shabak) asked her to draw a map of the tunnels in Gaza, “because they know nothing about them.”
Moshe, who was released in a previous exchange deal, told the Shin Bet investigator who visited her after her release that the tunnels in the Gaza Strip are “a huge, huge maze that extends underground throughout the Strip, and military pressure will not help bring back the prisoners.”
She said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lying, and that he and the army do not know anything about the tunnels of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip.
During her speech at the protests demanding a prisoner exchange deal with Gaza, Moshe indicated that the Shin Bet investigator asked her to explain what Hamas tunnels look like, what their branches are, and where they are located, which made it clear to her that the Israeli security services do not know anything about the tunnels.
Moshe told the investigator that the tunnels were “a huge, massive maze that runs underground across the entire Strip. It’s not one tunnel, but a network of endless tunnels.”
When they asked her to draw the tunnels in Gaza, Moshe told the Shin Bet that she was not a painter, which she took as further evidence that they knew nothing about her.
The New York Times reported last week that the tunnels in Gaza represent an underground nightmare for the Israeli army and the essence of Hamas’s ability to survive.
According to the newspaper, Israeli intelligence officials estimate that there are about 160 kilometers of tunnels under Khan Yunis, the second largest city in southern Gaza.