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August 15, 2024

Two Decades of Hamas’s Smuggling Tunnels

And the even longer story of the Sinai-to-Gaza arms pipeline.

Since the IDF seized the Philadelphi Corridor—the strip of land between Gaza and Egypt—in May, it has uncovered at least 25 tunnels connecting the two territories, including one big enough to drive trucks through. These tunnels are thought to be the main corridor through which Hamas has imported arms and other military supplies. Lior Ben Ari explains that smuggling across this border has gone on since 1982, when Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. But the problem took on new dimensions in 2005, when Israel withdrew from Gaza:

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August 15, 2024

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