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Hamas Says It Built Tunnel into Israel


(Al Jazeera) The military wing of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement said Sunday it built a tunnel found by Israelis beneath the Israel-Gaza frontier. "This tunnel was made by the hand of the fighters of (Izzadine) al-Qassam and they will not sleep in their efforts to hit the occupation and kidnap soldiers," the group's spokesman Abu Obeida told Hamas' Al-Aqsa radio. "Kidnapping soldiers is the only way to succeed." In June 2006 a group of Hamas and other fighters moved into Israel through a cross-border tunnel and kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. He was released on Oct. 18, 2011, in exchange for 1,027 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.
2013-10-21 00:00:00
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