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Hostages describe torture and torment in Gaza

Etgar Lefkovits — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:09:38 +0000

Many were beaten, starved and isolated for two years. One was held in a Gaza tunnel, deep underground, shackled in darkness for nearly two years. Another was kept in total isolation, enduring a process of deliberate starvation at the hands of his captors, losing nearly 40% of his body weight. They were tortured and tormented […]

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Hamas doesn’t want a deal: Netanyahu

Agencies — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 07:01:17 +0000

Israel is considering military action to rescue the remaining hostages in Gaza, according to reports in Israeli media. There is food in Gaza. Hamas is deliberately starving the hostages. LET THEM GO NOW️ pic.twitter.com/zZckf0SQtJ — Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) August 3, 2025 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Hamas has no interest in […]

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Tunnel shaft found in Khan Yunis City Hall was Hamas gathering point

Pesach Benson — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 05:40:25 +0000

Israeli soldiers continued pressing attacks on Hamas across the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday morning, including strikes on a tunnel shaft discovered in the Khan Yunis city hall and a UNRWA school used by the terror group as a command centre. In the southern Gaza city of Khan […]

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Israel destroys tunnel network under Gaza hospital and girls’ school

Pesach Benson — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 05:50:55 +0000

Israeli soldiers destroyed a network of tunnels underneath and around a hospital and adjacent girls’ school in northern Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Wednesday night. The three shafts, dozens of metres deep, were connected by an underground network passing under the Rantisi hospital and leading to the heart of Gaza City, the IDF […]

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Five Gaza hostages found dead in tunnel

Reuters — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 22:36:51 +0000

Five Israeli hostages killed in Hamas captivity have been recovered from an underground tunnel network in the northern Gaza Strip, the military says, showing footage of a white-tiled bathroom and workroom linked by dark, concrete-lined passages. The publication left open the question of how they had died, with chief military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari […]

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Israel finds tunnels from Hamas leaders’ homes found

Reuters — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 04:32:28 +0000

Israeli forces have uncovered a network of tunnels running deep beneath central Gaza City from properties registered to Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas organisers of the October 7 attacks on Israel, the military says. The tunnels were found when soldiers secured a central area of the city in recent days, spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter […]

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Wrath of God II: To win, Israel must assassinate Hamas leaders everywhere

Gidon Ben-Zvi — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 05:33:39 +0000

Israel’s military achievements against Hamas are impressive. As part of its campaign to destroy the terrorist group, Israel has reportedly struck over 22,000 targets in the Gaza Strip and has killed some 7,000 fighters since the war broke out. Since Israel’s land campaign began, the IDF has discovered over eight hundred tunnels, many of which were located […]

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Hamas use of UNRWA and USAID sacks to build tunnels raises questions

Sveta Listratov — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 05:28:23 +0000

The discovery of UN and USAID sacks being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza raises new questions about the security of humanitarian aid falling into the hands of the terror group. The Tazpit Press Service has learned that Israeli soldiers recently made an unusual discovery in a tunnel underneath Al Azhar University […]

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Israel has destroyed 130 Gaza tunnel shafts

Pesach Benson — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 05:14:01 +0000

The Israel Defence Forces said on Wednesday that combat engineers have uncovered and destroyed 130 Hamas tunnels in Gaza since the beginning of the ground invasion. The IDF said that in addition to the tunnels, other underground Hamas infrastructure, such as command centres, were also destroyed. “The enemy’s preparation for a prolonged stay in the […]

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New report exposes ‘land of tunnels’ in Lebanon, pioneered by Hezbollah

Yaakov Lappin — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 05:01:03 +0000

Yaakov Lappin: The Alma Centre report said they connect entire regions of the country to one another; some tunnels are able to allow pick-up trucks with multi-barrel rocket launchers to fire, vanish and re-emerge tens of kilometres from the firing point.

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