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One tunnel in Gaza was wide enough for a top Hamas official to drive a car
inside. Another stretched nearly three football fields long and was hidden
beneath a hospital. Under the house of a senior Hamas commander, the Israeli
military found a spiral staircase leading to a tunnel approximately seven
stories deep.
These details and new information about the tunnels, some made public by the
Israeli military and documented by video and photographs, underscore why the
tunnels were considered a major threat to the Israeli military in Gaza even
before the war started.
But Israeli officials and soldiers who have since been in the tunnels — as well
as current and former American officials with experience in the region — say the
scope, depth and quality of the tunnels built by Hamas have astonished them.
Even some of the machinery that Hamas used to build the tunnels, observed in
captured videos, has surprised the Israeli military.
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