IDF maps out, blows up 2 Hamas attack tunnels in northern Gaza

Combat engineers of the elite Yahalom unit and the Gaza Division have mapped out and demolished two Hamas attack tunnels in northern Gaza’s Beit Hanoun, the military says.

The IDF says the tunnels were under “continuous intelligence and technological surveillance” since their discovery.

One of the tunnels was first uncovered in 2014, and had been used by Hamas at the time to infiltrate into the country. It was demolished not long after, but another section of the tunnel deeper inside Gaza remained untouched until recently.

The IDF says the additional sections of the tunnel were struck from the air several times amid the ongoing war, and recently, combat engineers inspected the damage and determined that the underground passage was unusable by the terror group.

The second Hamas tunnel was part of another branching underground network, dug up to around 150 meters from the Israeli border, according to the military.

It did not cross into Israeli territory, the IDF says.

The second tunnel was blown up by combat engineers.