Gaza tunnels

Former Gaza hostages visit wounded soldiers before Independence Day

Avinatan Or, Alon Ohel, and Guy Gilboa-Dalal were treated at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus when they were first freed from Hamas captivity.

FORMER HOSTAGES meet with Israeli soldiers wounded in Lebanon.
Israel Air Force fighter jet seen in central Israel amid the ongoing war, April 7, 2026.

WATCH: IDF kills three Hamas commanders in Gaza strikes this week

Hamas terrorists gather during a public event in Khan Younis, Gaza, on February 1, 2025.

Hamas disarmament plan sees Gaza's tunnels destroyed, arms given up in stages, text shows

Soldiers from the IDF's 7th Armored Brigade operating in the Gaza Strip, January 14, 2026; illustrative.

WATCH: IDF continues counterterrorism ops. in Gaza Strip, including destroying terror tunnels


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.

IDF destroys kilometer-long Hamas tunnel with rail system in northern Gaza

The destruction of the route, which was longer than a kilometer, was carried out by engineering troops of the Gaza Division and northern Gaza Brigade in addition to the Yahalom Unit. 

 IDF troops operate in the Gaza Strip. September 3, 2024.

Hamas tunnel handbook reveals terror group's preparation for underground combat - NYT

The text contains instructions for Hamas terrorists on how to operate within the underground tunnels, how to hide the entrances to the networks, and how to find them. 

 Part of a three kilometre-long tunnel route destroyed by the IDF in the central Gaza Strip, August 9, 2024.