Gaza tunnels

WATCH: IDF foils terror plots in West Bank, destroys Hamas tunnels in Gaza

One of the Hamas tunnels was approximately one kilometer long, the IDF said, and it contained several living quarters as well as explosive devices. 

Katsrin Emergency Squad members take part in a training exercise simulating a terrorist infiltration in the city’s industrial zone, in Katsrin, Golan Heights, November 2, 2025.
Buildings lie in ruins amidst the rubble in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on December 8, 2025.

IDF confirms Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery damaged in operation to destroy Hamas terror tunnels

Ghassan Duhine and members of the Abu Shabab anti-Hamas Gaza militia.

Anti-Hamas Gaza militia leader says group readying for next phase after dismantling tunnels

Palestinians walk past the clinic of Doctors Without Borders or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), in the al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on January 11, 2026.

Doctors Without Borders report validates what the IDF has been saying for years - editorial


Maj.-Gen. Dan Goldfus: The IDF's hero of Khan Yunis and destroyer of Hamas's tunnels

IDF Maj.-Gen. Dan Goldfus considers that his breakthrough in overcoming Hamas’s tunnel warfare is not about a single moment in which he had an epiphany but the result of hard, exhaustive work.

 INCOMING NORTHERN Corps and Multi-Domain Joint Maneuver Array Maj.-Gen. Dan Goldfus.

Rockets rain over North, security cabinet discusses adding new war goal

IDF targets last Hamas strongholds in Tel al-Sultan • Family publishes Hamas captivity video • Hamas warehouses in Gaza overflowing with stolen humanitarian aid

 IDF soldiers operate in Tel al-Sultan, September 14, 2024.

Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 343?

Gazan whistleblowers reveal Hamas brutality • 'Post' visits Rafah tunnels • GPO revokes Al Jazeera journalists' press credentials for national security reasons

 IDF operating Gaza on September 13, 2024

IDF: Main goal of Philadelphi tunnels for firing rockets, not smuggling in weapons

The largest number of weapons is believed to have come from the Rafah Border Crossing, controlled by Egypt.

 Jerusalem Post correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob visits tunnels in the Gaza Strip on September 12, 2024.

Urine bottles and bullet casings: Captives killed two days after Alkadi rescue, IDF confirms

The IDF showed footage of a Rafah tunnel where six hostages were killed after possibly surviving there for weeks.

 IDF Spokesperson R.-Adm. Daniel Hagari in tunnels in Gaza where six hostages were found, in video released by the IDF. September 10, 2024

IDF Colonel Golan Vach wounded after tunnel shaft collapses in Gaza

IDF Colonel Golan Vach was injured in a tunnel collapse while investigating Gaza Strip infrastructure and is in stable condition after evacuation.

Col. Golan Vach, commander of the IDF Home Front Command’s National Search and Rescue Unit, at a Florida disaster site.

Israel's cabinet shown videos of Gaza hostages held in Hamas tunnels

According to those present at the meeting, the ministers were shocked by the video.

A general view of the interior of a cross-border attack tunnel dug from Gaza to Israel, near Kissufim, seen on January 18, 2018

Starved, without air or water: Hostages were murdered just hours before rescue, families told

Families reveal hostages were starved and suffocated before being executed hours before rescue, fueling calls for an investigation.

The shaft leading to the tunnel in which the bodies of six hostages were recovered, September 4, 2024.

Released hostage reveals how Hamas filmed her for psychological warfare videos - WSJ

Hamas captors created lines for her to follow, and if she said something incorrectly while recording, they would redo the take repeatedly.

 Released Israeli hostage Aviva Siegel attends the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 9, 2024.

IDF to change its combat tactics in Gaza tunnels to prevent murder of hostages

An initial IDF investigation revealed that the lookouts stationed outside the tunnel spotted IDF soldiers approaching them, which most likely prompted them to kill the hostages and leave the scene. 

 ISRAELI SOLDIERS walk through what the IDF said was an iron-girded tunnel designed by Hamas to disgorge carloads of Palestinian fighters for a surprise storming of the border, in the northern Gaza Strip.