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Mourners attend the funeral of 66-year-old Salman Halabi in Yarka, northern Israel, August 23, 2023. (Flash90)
August 25, 2023, 12:43 pm
Two more suspects arrested in Abu Snan quadruple homicide
Third suspect was nabbed at airport trying to flee country. All four victims of the killing buried; police discover tunnels under Nazareth used by crime family
By ToI Staff
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubara (center-front), who was ousted following a popular uprising in 2011, arrives with his two sons Gamal (C-behind) and Alaa (2nd-R) to testify during a session in the retrial of members of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood over charges of plotting jailbreaks and attacks on police during the 2011 uprising, at a make-shift courthouse in southern Cairo on December 26, 2018. (Mohamed el-Shahed/AFP)
December 26, 2018, 7:03 pm
Mubarak: Gaza tunnels were used by fighters to launch 2011 prison break in Egypt
Former president gives court testimony on his ousted successor Morsi, who was arrested and promptly escaped from jail at outset of uprising
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Photo from inside a Hamas attack tunnel that the Israeli military destroyed in airstrikes on May 29, 2018. The army said the tunnel extended into Egypt and from there 900 meters into Israeli territory (Courtesy IDF)
May 29, 2018, 5:23 pm
Israel destroys ‘unique’ Hamas tunnel extending into Israel via Egypt
Army strikes in Gaza seal off tunnel — intended for both smuggling and attacks according to IDF — that reached 900 meters into Israel
By ToI Staff
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks during a briefing at the State Department in Washington on August 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
March 18, 2018, 3:20 pm
State Department’s new undersecretary was in a Gaza tunnel when boss was fired
Sidelined by Tillerson, whose firing caught her in a terror tunnel during a trip to Israel, Heather Nauert now finds herself nearly atop Foggy Bottom
By Matthew Lee and Josh Lederman
A screen capture from a Facebook post by the Egyptian army showing the Gazan smuggling tunnels it says it destroyed in November 2015. (Screen capture: Facebook)
January 2, 2017, 8:13 pm
Egypt destroys 12 Gaza smuggling tunnels
Cairo cracks down on network used to transport weapons and goods to Hamas-run Strip
By ToI Staff
An Egyptian man looks at the damage at the scene of a bomb explosion that targeted the Saint Peter and Saint Paul Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo on December 11, 2016, in which at least 25 were killed. (Suhail Saleh/AFP Photo)
December 18, 2016, 5:19 pm
With plenty of Hamas help, IS deepens its war against Egypt
Gaza’s terrorist rulers are still providing Sinai Province group with weapons and medical aid, despite a supposed thaw in their relations with Cairo
By Avi Issacharoff
In this Monday, September 30, 2013 file photo, a Palestinian worker rests inside a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza Strip. (AP/Hatem Moussa)
December 4, 2016, 1:16 pm
Four Gazans killed in ‘flooded’ tunnel to Egypt
Bodies of Palestinians found after the Egyptian army filled the tunnel with water, leading to its collapse
By AFP and ToI Staff
A smuggling tunnel on the Gaza-Egypt border (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)
December 4, 2016, 10:23 am
Two bodies found in collapsed Gaza tunnel
Egyptian army reportedly flooded the smuggling tunnel under the border
By ToI Staff
Syrian refugee, Majed al-Attar, poses while showing his expired Syrian passport and Palestinian identification documents at his family's rented house in Rafah, Gaza, October 31, 2016 (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
November 14, 2016, 11:59 am
Now trapped, Syrian refugees regret fleeing to Gaza
A dozen families that entered the Strip unofficially through tunnels have no status, work or aid, and cannot leave
By Fares Akram
An image taken from a video on Hamas's Facebook page on July 20, 2016, shows Palestinian children entering into a tunnel dug by the terror group in the Gaza Strip. (Screen capture from Facebook)
July 20, 2016, 8:35 pm
Hamas turns Gaza terror tunnels into summer tourist attraction
Organized tours take place during weapons exhibition marking second anniversary of 2014 war with Israel
By Raoul Wootliff
Members of Islamic Jihad carry the body of a fellow militant who died in a tunnel collapse at his funeral in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, July 19, 2016. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
July 19, 2016, 1:17 am
Islamic Jihad man killed as Gaza tunnel collapses
Two others said injured in accident, the 14th reported cave-in of terror infrastructure this year
By ToI Staff
Gunmen from Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for the next conflict with Israel, as they take part in military training in the south of the Gaza Strip on March 3, 2015. (AFP/Mahmud Hams)
July 10, 2016, 9:21 am
Islamic Jihad fighter killed in Gaza tunnel collapse
Cave-in reportedly 13th incident in Strip since beginning of year, with 17 people killed; Israel warns Palestinian groups trying to rebuild underground system
By Dov Lieber
Illustrative. A picture taken on May 6, 2016, from the Israeli side of the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip shows the exit of a newly unearthed Hamas attack tunnel. (AFP PHOTO / JACK GUEZ)
July 5, 2016, 6:46 pm
In Gaza, Hamas tunnels run under mosques, homes — Shin Bet
2 alleged smugglers for the terror group spill the beans on rocket launch sites, underground infrastructure
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture taken on March 1, 2016 shows a deep crack on an asphalt road next to the border between Egypt and Gaza, in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)
May 5, 2016, 4:47 pm
Land damage has Gazans pointing finger at ‘Egypt pipeline’
Palestinians left with a bitter taste as flooding of smuggling tunnels by Cairo salinates water supplies, devastates crops
By Sarah Benhaida
Illustrative: A Palestinian smuggler in a tunnel along the Gaza-Egypt border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 10, 2016, 11:15 pm
At least 2 Hamas men killed in Gaza tunnel collapse
Conflicting reports in Palestinian media blame rain, Egyptian military action for 12th deadly cave-in of the year
By ToI Staff
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