Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia
On 24 October 2023, Hamas released the 85-year-old Yocheved Lifshitz, who had been taken hostage in Hamas's attack on Israel on 7 October 2023. Lifshitz described walking for two to three hours through damp tunnels until she and other hostages reached a large hall.
A look inside the largest Hamas tunnel ever discovered by the ...
NORTHERN GAZA — As Israel says it has almost destroyed Hamas’ brigades in northern Gaza, its forces are preparing to blow up some of the hundreds of tunnels it says belonged to the militant...
Inside the tunnels of Gaza - reuters.com
Dec 31, 2023 · Hamas has said it is using the tunnels, and other safe places, to hide hostages seized in its Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Hamas gunmen killed some 1,200 people and took 240 captives in the raid,...
The ‘Gaza metro’: The mysterious subterranean tunnel network ...
Oct 28, 2023 · It’s a vast labyrinth of tunnels, by some accounts several kilometers underground, used to transport people and goods; to store rockets and ammunition caches; and house Hamas command and...
The Hamas tunnels: a wildcard in the Gaza fighting - NPR
Nov 2, 2023 · Hamas claims to have 300 miles of tunnels in Gaza, a subterranean complex that effectively serves as an all-purpose military compound. According to Israel, the underground space includes...
The Tunnels of Gaza - The New York Times
Nov 10, 2023 · The Hamas militants who launched a bloody attack on Israel last month have built a maze of hidden tunnels some believe extend across most if not all of Gaza, the territory they control.
See inside the biggest Hamas tunnel Israel's military says it ...
Dec 18, 2023 · Israel says Hamas, long designated a terror group by the U.S., Israel and many other nations, has used the tunnels to transport supplies and carry out attacks — including its unprecedented Oct. 7...
Hamas Documents Reveal Tunnel Battle Strategy - The New York ...
Sep 2, 2024 · Israeli officials spent years searching for and dismantling tunnels that Hamas could use to sneak into Israel to launch an attack. But assessing the underground network inside Gaza was not a...
Israel’s New Approach to Tunnels: A Paradigm Shift in ...
Dec 2, 2024 · Some Hamas tunnels were tactical, such as small-unit tunnels that ran from building to building giving Hamas fighters the ability to hold specific terrain. Some were more operational as they connected different battalions or brigades to each other or provided operational mobility—like the mile-long tunnels running underneath the river basin ...
Israel targets Hamas’s labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza
Oct 13, 2023 · Israel says it is striking parts of a secret labyrinth of tunnels built underneath the Gaza Strip by Hamas, as it continues to retaliate for the Palestinian Islamist militant group's...