Israel Takes Fight Underground to Hamas’s Vast Gaza Tunnel Network

The militant group has spent decades expanding and fortifying a subterranean labyrinth

A member of a militant group in Gaza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, in a tunnel in the Gaza Strip before the war. mahmud hams/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

TEL AVIV—Israeli forces have taken control of much of northern Gaza—at least the parts that are above ground. Beneath the strip’s devastated urban landscape, Hamas still reigns.

The war is entering a new phase, as the Israeli military takes its fight underground and into Gaza’s legendary subterranean tunnel network.

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