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With Mapping Robots and Blast Gel, Israel Wages War on Hamas Tunnels
(Reuters) Dan Williams - After locating the entrance to a Hamas tunnel under an evacuated hospital in northern Gaza, Israeli army engineers filled the passage with exploding gel and hit the detonator. The blast engulfed the building and sent smoke spewing out of at least three points along a nearby road in Beit Hanoun, surveillance footage showed. Israel's policy was not to send personnel down into tunnel shafts, where Palestinian fighters would have a defender's advantage in passages with which they were familiar. "We don't want to go down there. We know that they left us a lot of side-bombs (IEDs)," said an IDF officer.