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WATCH: TV report on Hamas tunnel-digging unit in Gaza

“Resistance courses like blood through their veins,” said a reporter on the Lebanese Al-Quds TV of the terror organization’s military wing.

One of the buses in the aftermath of an attack on Feb. 25, 2018. Credit: MEMRI
One of the buses in the aftermath of an attack on Feb. 25, 2018. Credit: MEMRI

A report on a tunnel-digging unit of Hamas’s military wing, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, aired on March 17 on the Lebanese Al-Quds TV.

Reporter Hanady Nasrallah visited one of the tunnels and the militants digging it, and said that “resistance courses like blood through their veins,” and that “they compete [for the privilege] of sacrificing their lives for the sake of liberating the land, the prisoners and the holy places.”

Secret tunnels such as these, she said, “provide the means for the resistance fighters to carry out quality operations against the Israeli occupation.”

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