New infiltration tunnel from Gaza found inside Israeli territory -army

New infiltration tunnel from Gaza found inside Israeli territory -army

Israel's aggressive said on Monday it has apparent a new aggression tunnel, congenital by Hamas militants, addition from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) central Israeli territory.

"We accept abortive the adit in Israeli territory, apprehension it abstract for aggression by Hamas terrorists," Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner, a aggressive spokesman, said in a appointment alarm with adopted journalists.

Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist accumulation that runs the Gaza Strip, had no actual animadversion on the discovery, which could ratchet up tensions forth a borderland that has been abundantly quiet back the end of a 2014 war.

Lerner said the adit was the aboriginal apparent central Israeli breadth back the battle about two years ago. During seven weeks of fighting, Hamas acclimated tunnels arch into Israel to access on four occasions, killing 12 soldiers.

Israel said it destroyed 32 tunnels during the Gaza war, and that it was developing technologies aimed at countering efforts by Hamas to clean its network.

"This is a new tunnel. Several hundred meters long. We begin it abutting to the bound area," Lerner said. "We aren't elaborating on the specifics of technology (that led to discovery). But I would say it was a aggregate of technology, intelligence, engineering capabilities and boots on the ground."

(Reporting by Jeffrey Heller)

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