Hamas terror tunnels

TEL AVIV – Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot denied Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s claim about the existence of additional cross-border tunnels that the army doesn’t know about. 

A member of Hamas’s military wing was reportedly killed Sunday in a tunnel collapse near Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip. Reports in Palestinian media identified the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades member as Thaer Nayef al-Zaraie.

TEL AVIV – Israeli Military Intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi on Sunday warned of a possible “explosion” by the Palestinians ahead of Israel’s 70th Independence Day.

TEL AVIV – Hamas launched a large-scale military exercise in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, in response to Israel’s increased forces along the border ahead of a mass march as part of a “day of rage” planned to coincide with the eve of Passover later in the week. 

TEL AVIV – Stop the violent protests or Israel will respond harshly, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) warned Gazans demonstrators in an Arabic-language video Tuesday, adding that they might consider protesting against their oppressive Hamas government instead.

TEL AVIV – In what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu deemed a “serious” incident, four IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated by their jeep during a patrol along the Gaza Strip border on Saturday.

The Israeli Air Force attacked six Hamas targets all across the Gaza Strip Saturday, including an offensive tunnel running from the Zaytun neighborhood in Gaza towards Israel.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Representative for International Negotiations, Jason Greenblatt, on Sunday slammed terror group Hamas for using Iranian “blood money” for weapons against Israel instead of helping alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

TEL AVIV – Israeli security forces on Sunday simulated responses to series of terror threats – including a raid on a vacation resort – in the country’s southern region, in preparation for large-scale sea and land attacks from the Hamas terror group in Gaza.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt visited a cross-border Hamas terror tunnel on Sunday, and blasted the terrorist group for wasting funds on rockets and tunnels instead of alleviating Gaza’s crippling humanitarian crisis.

TEL AVIV – The Hamas terror tunnel destroyed by the IDF on Saturday was intended for an attack on the border crossing where the majority of humanitarian aid reaches the Gaza Strip, an IDF spokesperson said.

TEL AVIV – The IDF destroyed another Hamas terror tunnel on Saturday night that stretched from Gaza into both Israel and Egypt, the IDF spokesperson said on Sunday morning.

TEL AVIV – Following violent riots on the border between Israel and Gaza, the Defense Ministry’s chief coordinator in the coastal enclave urged Palestinians not to allow the Hamas terror group use them as pawns in their fight against the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV – The underground wall that Israel is building to stop the terror group Hamas’ cross-border tunnels from Gaza will also stretch into the Mediterranean to prevent infiltration from the sea, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. 

A member of Hamas’s military wing was killed Monday morning when a tunnel he was digging in collapsed, the Gaza-based terror group said.

A senior Israeli security official warned on Tuesday that Hamas has restored its capabilities to the level they were before Israel’s Operation Protective Edge.

TEL AVIV – Israel warned that it would not hesitate to use lethal force against Palestinians attempting to cross into Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told Palestinian media on Saturday.

JERUSALEM – A spokesperson for Hamas said the terror group “is saving” something that “will surprise the world” during future prisoner exchanges with Israel.

TEL AVIV – The terror group Hamas is taking advantage of the relative calm in Israel’s south to prepare for the next round of conflict, a senior IDF general said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – “If Australian money was spent on building [Hamas terror] tunnels, that is beyond the pale,” Australian MP Michael Danby said Sunday.

TEL AVIV – Israel has begun construction on a new $530 million barrier along the length of its 37-mile border with the Gaza Strip to be built both above and below ground, aimed at preventing Hamas from building underground terror tunnels into the country.

TEL AVIV – The British government has suspended all taxpayer monies from being channeled to U.S.-based Christian charity World Vision after it emerged that the funds for its Gaza branch were being siphoned to Hamas for terror purposes.

TEL AVIV – A chilling picture of Hamas-run “summer camps” has emerged from the Gaza Strip showing children as young as three-years-old joining terror training recreations designed “to liberate Palestine from the Zionist occupation.”

TEL AVIV – The United Nations Development Program said Tuesday it was “greatly concerned” by Israel’s allegation that one of its employees was assisting the Hamas terror group.

TEL AVIV – The charges that millions of charity dollars were diverted to Hamas is only a tiny example of the immense abuse of humanitarian funds meant for Gaza residents that is instead being used to fund Islamists’ terror activities in the Gaza Strip, a senior Knesset member who is also the former head of the Shin Bet security agency said Monday.

TEL AVIV — Australia and Germany have suspended aid to the humanitarian evangelical Christian group World Vision on Friday, amid charges by Israel that the charity’s head in Gaza siphoned millions of dollars of funds to Hamas.

TEL AVIV – Islamic Jihad, a Gaza-based terror group, unveiled its newest rocket at the annual family festival “Bond of Blood” festival on Thursday, Palestinian news website Donia al-Watan reported.

TEL AVIV – Hamas digs more than six miles of tunnels leading into Israel each month, a problem for which there is no perfect solution, Israeli officials said Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The IDF is gearing up to defend a multi-pronged attack whereby several Hamas militants will emerge simultaneously from underground tunnels into Israel, Arutz Sheva reported.

Israel is in possession of information indicating that Hamas operatives are able to travel throughout the the Gaza Strip underground utilizing the terror group’s freshly constructed extensive subterranean tunneling system.