Gaza tunnels

Fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas movement, carry the body of 30-year-old Maslih Shabir in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, during the funeral of Palestinians who were killed the previous day in an Israeli operation to blow up a tunnel stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel, October 31, 2017. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Rights groups demand IDF allow rescue teams into Gaza tunnel

The Israeli army is preventing search and rescue teams from entering the Gaza buffer zone to retrieve the bodies of Palestinian militants. Rights groups: ‘There is no way to justify the severe and intolerable harm to the lives and dignity of the trapped individuals.’ By +972 Magazine Staff Rights groups are demanding that the Israeli military…

By +972 Magazine November 3, 2017

A soldier stands next to a Hamas-built tunnel outside Gaza. (photo: IDF Spokesperson/ CC BY-NC 2.0)

Were Gaza tunnels built to harm Israeli civilians?

For weeks we’ve been hearing about the threat the Gaza tunnels pose to Israeli civilians. In reality, every tunnel so far has been used against military targets alone. By Emanual Yelin (translated by Sinewave) The existence of the tunnels in Gaza was well-known to Israel’s Defense Ministry, although their scope was only revealed to the general…

By +972 Magazine August 11, 2014

A Palestinian man grieves after an air strike hits his neighborhood in Gaza. (photo: Activestills.org)

Israeli air strikes kill 120 Palestinians in single day; Hamas refuses truce without end to blockade

Over 120 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday. as both Israel and Hamas evaluated a proposed humanitarian ceasefire. A top PLO official said that Palestinian factions in Gaza had agreed to a day-long humanitarian truce, a claim that was quickly refuted by Hamas. Israeli airstrikes also destroyed Gaza’s only power station Tuesday morning. Amnesty…

By Edo Konrad July 29, 2014

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Palestinians look for injured or dead bodies under the rubble of the home of Abu Teir family which was bombed duri,h an Israeli attack, in Abasan village, East of Khan Yunis, July 27, 2014. During the ceasefire on 26 July, many Palestinians went back to Abasan to inspect the damages together with medics who attempted to rescue injured or collect bodies. Israeli attacks have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians and injured around 5,000 in the current offensive. (Anne Paq/Activestills.org)

Not about tunnels: Israeli tanks take aim at central Gaza

Israel’s ‘no-go zone’ – created by scorched-earth shelling that has leveled entire neighborhoods – has shrunk Gaza nearly by half. A colleague in Gaza City’s Tal el Hawa neighborhood reported before dawn this morning that Israeli tank shells were falling all around the apartment building where he and his wife were hunkered in a hallway,…

By Samer Badawi July 29, 2014

An IDF soldier walks through the tunnel the IDF uncovered underneath the Gaza-Israel border earlier this week. (Photo: IDF Spokesperson)

The ‘terror tunnels’: Another Israeli self-fulfilling prophecy

There were non-lethal ways to preempt Hamas’ underground attacks, but the Netanyahu government rejected them all. Here is the current, ostensibly airtight rationale for whatever the IDF chooses to do in Gaza: armed Hamas militats are coming up out of tunnels that start in Gaza and end not far from kibbutz and moshav communities on…

By Larry Derfner July 21, 2014