Inside Israel’s Tunnel Commando Team Waging War Under Gaza

While the Israeli government has been bombarding Gaza for weeks now in response to Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack early last month, a quieter, more covert network has been preparing to take down Hamas behind the scenes.

An elite combat engineering team of the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the Yahalom Unit, has been working behind the scenes preparing for a drawn-out fight with Hamas in a complex web of hundreds of miles of tunnels the terrorist organization has dug out underground.

The elite Yahalom Unit is trained especially in tunnel warfare to face off with the roughly 300 miles of underground tunnels the terrorist organization has used to smuggle in goods from outside of Gaza and for military and strategic purposes. Through the years Hamas has relied on its vast web of cloak and dagger tunnels to avoid Israeli monitoring above ground, move supplies such as rockets, and launch surprise attacks against Israel, according to the IDF.

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