[IsraelTimes] At least four families from the village of Pri Gan, located about 4.5 kilometers from the southern Gazoo Strip, say they heard sounds of digging near their homes, adding that the floors in their apartments have shaken.
Israel Radio reports that Eshkol Regional Council head Gadi Yarkoni, a resident of Kibbutz Nirim about two kilometers from the Gazoo border, has a recording of the sounds of the excavation.
On Tuesday evening, at least six Paleostinians were reported killed in a collapse of a tunnel dug under the Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,-run Strip. According to Israel's Channel 10 television, the six fatalities were all members of the Hamas terror group, as were the five others injured in the incident.
The nature of the tunnel in question was not immediately clear. Hamas has in the past dug cross-border tunnels into Israel in order to stage attacks on civilians and soldiers. Other tunnels are used by the terror group as part of its defensive infrastructure. |