Tunnel Raid

From the BBC:

"Gaza: Palestinian militants killed as Israel hits tunnel"

Eight Palestinian militants were killed and several others injured when Israel destroyed a tunnel running from Gaza into Israel, Palestinian officials say. It is understood that six of those who died were members of Islamic Jihad. The Hamas military wing said two of its members were killed in a rescue effort. The Israeli military said the "terror tunnel" was still under construction when it was "neutralised". Israel is using sophisticated measures to thwart tunnels dug by militants. It destroyed more than 30 tunnels during a 50-day war with militants in Gaza in the summer of 2014, and has found three since then.  During that conflict, fighters from Hamas used tunnels to infiltrate Israeli territory on four occasions, killing 12 soldiers. The conflict left at least 2,251 Palestinians dead - including more than 1,462 civilians, according to the UN - and 11,231 injured. On the Israeli side, 67 soldiers and six civilians were killed, and up to 1,600 injured.  The Israeli military said the tunnel it destroyed on Monday ran from Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, into Israeli territory, about 2km (1.2 miles) from the town of Kissufim. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel had used "breakthrough technology" to find and destroy the tunnel. Israel is building a huge barrier along its border with Gaza aimed at preventing militants tunnelling underneath it. The 64km-long (40-mile) construction, which should be completed in 2019, will extend 40m (131ft) below ground and 6m above ground. The latest tunnel was detected in an area where the barrier was not yet completed, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported. An Islamic Jihad statement said the tunnels were "part of the policy of deterrence to defend the Palestinian people" and accused Israel of a "dangerous escalation", according to AFP news agency.  The incident comes just days before Hamas is due to hand over control of Gaza's border crossings with Israel to the Palestinian Authority as part of a reconciliation deal with the rival Fatah movement.

^  The Palestinians in Gaza are reuniting (since a week ago) with the Palestinians in the West Bank (which was broken up in 2006 because Gaza elected the Hama terrorist group into office) and that with these tunnels show that the threat of more missiles and suicide bombers on Israel is still there. All the talk when I was in the West Bank about peace is just that - talk. Luckily, Israel has these tunnel operations, protective walls and the Iron Dome missile-defense system. You would think that after 70 years (next year is the 70th anniversary of Israel's founding) the Palestinians (and all the other Muslim and Arab countries who officially call for the complete destruction of Israel) would learn their old tactics have never worked and will never work. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-41809105