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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 564

tunnels

New York police officers arrest a Hasidic Jewish student after he was removed from a breach in the wall of the synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by students at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters, January 8, 2024, in New York. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
April 12, 2024, 8:34 am
Thirteen men plead not guilty for melee over illegal Brooklyn Chabad tunnel
Fight broke out when workers filled in tunnels under Chabad headquarters; all but one of the students involved are Israeli citizens
By Luke Tress
Hasidic Jewish students sit behind a breach in the wall of a synagogue that led to a tunnel dug by the students, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, at Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters in New York. A group of Hasidic Jewish worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a secret tunnel built beneath a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. (Bruce Schaff via AP)
January 11, 2024, 11:22 am
NYC orders vacating of Chabad HQ for stabilization work after tunnel discovery
Multiple buildings around 770 Eastern Parkway are emptied as work begins to fill in 18-meter-long illegal cavity dug by extremist students trying to expand synagogue
By Jake Offenhartz
New York City police cars outside the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn December 9, 2014, in New York. (Photo by DON EMMERT / AFP)
January 9, 2024, 4:53 pm
Chaos ensues as NYPD tries to fill in secret tunnel in Chabad HQ synagogue
Several rioters arrested after damaging the prayer hall and throwing benches at police officers
By ToI Staff
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
Illustrative: Forensic examiners investigate the crime scene where a man was shot and killed, in Haifa, July 6, 2023. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
August 24, 2023, 2:50 pm
Man shot dead in northern Israel, in killing likely tied to organized crime
52-year-old victim of drive-by shooting in Kiryat Bialik known to authorities; police also uncover underground tunnel used by mafia in Nazareth
By ToI Staff
Teslas park in the Las Vegas Convention Center Loop, an underground tunnel developed by Elon Musk's The Boring Company, June 8, 2021, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
February 4, 2023, 10:30 pm
Netanyahu aims to fill West Bank with high-speed tunnels, in vision laid out by Musk
Premier floats plans during meeting in Paris with French businesspeople, says it could allow for territorial contiguity between settlements and for Palestinians
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Entering the newly restored Mount Zion tunnel from the top point near the Jerusalem University College. (Shmuel Bar-Am)
September 4, 2021, 8:44 am
Get into the trenches of Israeli history at the revamped Mt. Zion supply tunnel
When Jordanian snipers threatened supply lines before Israel unified Jerusalem, IDF engineers built a secret trench now renovated and open to visitors after lying dormant for years
By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am
Then-Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz poses for a picture during a ceremony opening the new Harel tunnels on highway 1, the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem Road, on January 19, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 30, 2020, 5:02 am
Trump’s peace plan has 99 problems, but Israeli engineers say a tunnel ain’t one
Proposal calls for 30 mile tunnel between West Bank and Gaza that would make it one of the longest in world, but experts say that’s not the reason the US plan probably won’t work
By Josefin Dolsten
Palestinian demonstrators run away from the fence during protests along the border with Israel, east of Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip on July 12, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
July 12, 2019, 7:04 pm
6,000 protest on Gaza border; IDF deploys more Iron Dome batteries in south
Army strengthens missile defenses as Hamas says it will avenge operative’s death; rioters throw rocks, explosive devices at soldiers on border; Egyptian delegation enters enclave
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian protester throws a Molotov cocktail at an Israeli military vehicle during protests along the Gaza border with Israel on July 5, 2019. (Said Khatib/AFP)
July 12, 2019, 10:39 am
IDF readies for discord on Gaza border, day after Hamas man mistakenly shot dead
Terror group has promised ‘consequences’ for killing of operative; but a former top defense official believes group has too much to lose by escalating the situation
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli military vehicles are seen during clashes along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, near Gaza City, on June 28, 2019. (Hassan Jedi/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 4:13 pm
IDF: Troops mistakenly killed Hamas member who was preventing border breach
Gaza terror groups meet to discuss response to death of Hamas officer in northern Strip, as Israel apparently seeks to maintain calm
By Judah Ari Gross
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces during a protest on the Israel-Gaza border, in the eastern part of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 10, 2019. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
July 11, 2019, 11:13 am
Hamas: IDF killed member as he was trying to stop Gazans from crossing border
Terror group vows death of fighter — a member of its restraint unit — won’t go ‘unpunished’ and Israel ‘would bear the consequences of this criminal act’
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture taken in January 2018 of a destroyed Palestinian Islamic Jihad tunnel, leading from Gaza into Israel, near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Kissufim. (Jack Guez/AFP/POOL)
July 8, 2019, 9:05 pm
IDF uncovers cross-border attack tunnel from southern Gaza
Military says passage was discovered during construction of underground barrier around the enclave, five years after 2014 operation aimed at countering threat of tunnels
By Judah Ari Gross
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)
February 11, 2019, 8:35 am
Two Palestinians said killed in Gaza-Egypt tunnel after inhaling toxic gas
Spokesman says one of the dead was an officer in Hamas security forces, second was a civilian; source of gas unclear
By Adam Rasgon
View of the train and tracks during a test drive of the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv high-speed train in central Israel on January 16, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 3, 2018, 6:44 pm
Disasters drilled on Jerusalem-Ben Gurion fast rail ahead of opening in 3 weeks
Israel Railways mounts exercises to extract ‘blaze victims’ from Israel’s longest tunnel, evacuate injured from underground platform
By Sue Surkes
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