Israel’s army said that it was flooding Hamas’s attack tunnels amid intense fighting in Gaza, even as international mediators pushed for a halt in the nearly four-month war. The centre of the fighting has been Khan Younis, southern Gaza’s main city, where vast areas have been reduced to a wasteland of bombed-out buildings. “It is part of a range of tools deployed by the [Israeli military] to neutralize the threat of Hamas’s subterranean network of tunnels,” the military said.
