Danon Leads UN Ambassadors Into Hamas Tunnel in Gaza

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, entered a Hamas-built tunnel in the Gaza Strip with a delegation of UN ambassadors on Sunday, November 15. Southern Command chief Maj. Gen. Yaniv Asor accompanied them. Danon said the diplomats saw firsthand the threat facing residents of Israeli communities adjoining Gaza. Danon accused Israel’s critics of trying to create a humanitarian crisis in Gaza through a winter campaign and urged them to direct their criticism at Hamas. He said the terrorist organization continued to rearm and rebuild its infrastructure, and argued that Gaza could have no future while Hamas remained part of the equation. Earlier that Sunday, the delegation began its tour at Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Danon described visiting homes where civilians were murdered and abducted during the October 7 attack. He said the ambassadors would remember what they had seen when participating in future UN discussions about Gaza. At the kibbutz, Danon linked the prospect of rebuilding Gaza to ending Hamas’s control. “As long as Hamas continues to control the Gaza Strip, there will be no reconstruction there,” he said in his Hebrew statement.