With the help of Israel\u2019s specialized canine unit, Oketz, soldiers discovered and raided a tunnel built by Hamas terrorists in the southern part of Gaza City, an IDF spokesperson said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Video released by the IDF in an X post Friday showed the military\u2019s four-legged unit hard at work.<\/p>\n
The video captured the dog, who was attached with a camera, trotting along the terror tunnel, which included an elaborate system of tunnels.<\/p>\n
The tunnels included command and communication rooms, storage, hideouts, as well as water and electricity infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military said that the route was a \u2018multi-level structure\u2019 within the Palestinian city.<\/p>\n
The IDF boasts one of the most cutting-edge fighting forces, having integrated artificial intelligence into many of its operations, but some tasks still require an old-school approach. This is where the Oketz unit makes its mark.<\/p>\n
\u2018There are a few types of dogs used by the unit, some are confidential, most of them are types of [shepherds],\u2019 an officer known as \u2018Major A,\u2019 an operative canine warfare school commander for the Oketz unit, told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n
\u2018They are used for three main reasons: tactical dogs that are used to identify enemies; explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) dogs for finding explosives and others; and search and rescue dogs that took a vital part in this war in Israel and Gaza,\u2019 Major A said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fox News Digital\u2019s Peter Aitken contributed to this report.<\/p>\n\n
With the help of Israel\u2019s specialized canine unit, Oketz, soldiers discovered and raided a tunnel built by Hamas terrorists in the southern part of Gaza City, an IDF spokesperson said on Friday. Video released by the IDF in an X post Friday showed the military\u2019s four-legged unit hard at work. The video captured the dog, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}