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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont in Jerusalem

‘A spider’s web of tunnels’: inside Gaza’s underground network being targeted by Israel

Two militants wearing masks and holding guns crouch on a sandy floor between concrete walls
Militants guarding tunnels on the Gaza-Israeli border earlier this year. Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Israel’s heaviest aerial bombardment of Gaza of the war so far was aimed at Hamas’s extensive network of underground tunnels and bunkers, known to Israeli military planners as the “metro”.

A spokesperson for the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said the strikes involving about 100 planes began after dusk and hit 150 underground targets associated with Hamas’s tunnel network, a system which has been years in the making.

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