IDF Spokesperson Announcement
October, 14, 2014
Location: Tel Aviv

UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Visits Location of de-Commissioned
Terror Tunnel

Video:
http://youtu.be/TsizRDNuIAk

Earlier today, the UN Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki Moon,​accompanied by
senior IDF officers, visited southern Israel. The IDF escorted the UN
Secretary-General, to a tunnel shaft located near kibbutz Ein Hashlosha,
where he was presented with the IDF the security analysis, lessons learned,
and the IDF General Staff Mechanism for Fact-Finding Assessment following
Operation Protective Edge.

​The Secretary-General was briefed by Commander of the Northern Corps, Major
General Noam Tibon, Commander of the Gaza Division Brigadier General Itai
Veruv and the Head of the Civilian Coordination Department at COGAT Col.
Grisha Ya'akobovich. While visiting the tunnel they reviewed Hamas'
strategic ​ abuse of civilian infrastructure in order to execute attacks
against the civilian communities of southern Israel, and discussed the vast
efforts on behalf of Hamas in constructing the network of infiltration
tunnels.

The officers also discussed the IDF ground force mission, how combat was
conducted and the engineering efforts that took place in order to eliminate
the tunnel threat.