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Israel went public Sunday with a military laboratory it set up in 2016 to pool anti-tunnel expertise and spearhead efforts to foil the cross-border digs.

An IDF general on Sunday said the Israeli military, helped by the “Jewish brain,” had devised a solution that would see all of Hamas’s cross-border tunnels into Israel destroyed.

The IDF warned Hamas on Sunday that the attack tunnels which it continues to dig into Israeli territory will become a “death trap” for terrorists.

The Israeli military says it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) into Israel.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced that Israel would hold on to the bodies of terrorists killed during last week’s tunnel blast, a move that Israeli lawmakers said would help in a potential exchange for the bodies of slain IDF soldiers held in Gaza.

A Hamas leader on Tuesday promised revenge — but not immediately — for the deaths of seven Palestinians when Israel blew up an attack tunnel that stretched into its territory.

United Nations officials discovered a tunnel built under a school in the Gaza Strip run by UNRWA, the international body’s agency for Palestinian refugees, the global body said in a statement.

Hamas appears to be changing its tunnel strategy, shifting from a focus on border-crossing attack routes to more internal defense structures, as Israel steps up work on its underground barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip, according to IDF assessments on Wednesday.

Gaza’s Islamic Hamas rulers welcomed U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the isolated territory Wednesday by demanding he work to lift the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the strip and save it from a humanitarian crisis.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has taken a helicopter tour of the Israel-Gaza border, viewing the volatile front from the air before visiting the isolated territory.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley wrapped up a three-day visit to Israel with a tour of Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial on Friday where she cautioned on the importance of always “choosing a side.”

Israel is reportedly set to start work on a barrier designed to prevent the terror group Hamas from digging cross-border attack tunnels into Israel from Gaza.

TEL AVIV – Bedouin tribes fighting in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula against the Islamic State group have warned Hamas against continued support for IS in Sinai. The tribes accused Hamas of allowing fighters out of the Gaza Strip to join IS’ ranks through smuggling tunnels that connect Gaza to the Sinai while providing sanctuary to IS members.

TEL AVIV – Amid signs of a rapprochement between Egypt and Hamas, media personalities are calling for the Gaza-based terror group to destroy the cross-border tunnels used to smuggle arms, terrorists and funds in and out of Egypt.

A member of the Hamas terror group was killed Sunday night in a tunnel collapse in the Gaza Strip, the organization said.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday dismissed a recent report saying there are 15 Hamas attack tunnels reaching into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

In the two and a half years that passed since Operation Protective Edge, Hamas has resumed its tunnel digging, while half of the tunnels the IDF destroyed during the war remained usable and arguments between the IDF and the Defense Ministry have been delaying the deployment of the new system to locate tunnels.

The Gaza-based terror group Hamas has at least 15 attack tunnels that reach into Israeli territory, according to a Channel 2 report aired Sunday, quoting unnamed sources in the high-level security cabinet.

Residents of Gaza were enraged by criticism of Hamas’ cross-border tunnels, used mainly for smuggling, that has been voiced on the Palestinian Authority’s official TV channel.

Eight Palestinian operatives were wounded in a tunnel collapse early Wednesday morning in the northern Gaza border town of Shuja’yya, according to Ma’an News Agency.

TEL AVIV – Hamas illegally siphoned off tens of millions of dollars of aid money from the U.S. and Europe to build terror tunnels and fund weapons purchases, the Shin Bet security service said Thursday.

The Times of Israel reports: Cairo is fuming over increasing cooperation between the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, and Islamic State-affiliated forces in the neighboring Sinai Peninsula, The Times of Israel has learned, despite attempts in

TEL AVIV – The accusations that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not deal with the threat of Hamas’ terror tunnels prior to the 2014 summer conflict are baseless, his office said late Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – Gaza-based terror group Hamas has uploaded a promotional video for a military training summer camp that promises to make “strong and powerful heroes” out of Palestinian teenagers willing to wage “Jihad for the sake of Allah.”

Nearly 40 Syrian soldiers and pro-regime fighters were killed when rebels blew up a tunnel under a government position in Aleppo city, a monitor said Friday.

The Gaza-based Hamas terrorist group appears to branching into the field of local tourism, turning underground tunnels constructed to carry out cross-border attacks on Israeli communities into the latest summer attraction for Gazan youth.

Israeli authorities announced Tuesday that they had made a number of key arrests of Palestinian suspects who shed light on Hamas’s efforts to smuggle money to its operatives in the West Bank and its continued efforts to dig tunnels in Gaza.

Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups on Saturday vowed a tough reaction to reported plans by Israel to build an underground cement barrier along the Gaza border.

TEL AVIV – A senior member of Hamas’ armed wing who is reportedly an expert on the terror group’s tunnels has defected to Israel, rival group Fatah reported.

Israel said late Sunday it was lifting a ban imposed last month on private imports of cement to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – The Israel Defense Forces has no intention to escalate the situation along the Israel-Gaza border but it will continue operations to detect and destroy Hamas terror tunnels, IDF Spokesperson Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said om Sunday.

The Times of Israel reports: Israeli officials said Saturday they would continue operations to uncover and destroy cross-border attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip over the coming weeks, even as Israel and Hamas sought to calm tensions along the frontier.

The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was “not calling for war” with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict.

Haaretz reports: A Hamas member was arrested by Israel last month after crossing the border fence with two knives, the Shin Bet revealed on Thursday.

TEL AVIV – In provoking the Israel Defense Forces along the Israel-Gaza border, Hamas seems to be testing Israel’s military and political response to the possibility of another outbreak in the south