{"id":137923,"date":"2017-12-10T05:22:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-10T10:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=137923"},"modified":"2017-12-10T05:22:48","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T10:22:48","slug":"israel-says-it-destroys-hamas-tunnel-using-new-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/10\/israel-says-it-destroys-hamas-tunnel-using-new-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel says it destroys Hamas tunnel using new techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_137924\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-137924\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35139590876_c1001b8c18_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-137924\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35139590876_c1001b8c18_z.jpg\" alt=\"The Israeli military says it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) into Israel. (Photo by U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35139590876_c1001b8c18_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35139590876_c1001b8c18_z-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-137924\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Israeli military says it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) into Israel. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usembassyta\/35139590876\/in\/photolist-VxaA87-o7te7p-orzFhj-opziZR-oqYoqa-ooFAtz-orfDYB-o9L58f-oo8Y7G-orvvva-o9M69k-orzFhQ-osue16-owB6sc-o9L5ZX-o6jEXh-Vxaz6Y-o6jN64-oqHJaH-orzFkq-om3MbN-onPom2-or3vmE-o7ujuK-oo5HCD-oai3sS-onPoHK-okMvJW-onBbGU-opKV9m-o6A7PM-opKV91-p2xh5J-SGV8sf-o6zY8Q-pe69Ta-gJDo23-gJDsZw-p9GT9c-gJDnJj-oQMSPu-gJDssi-gJDp8w-KKV5pX-KKUZQX-Lxfnpj-KKUYAc-Lxfk3L-LDPM45-LgpzdW\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/usembassyta\/\">U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 The Israeli military says it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, told reporters Sunday that Israel used a new set of \u201ctools\u201d to destroy the tunnel. He said forces had detected the tunnel months ago and continued to monitor construction efforts by Hamas militants before demolishing it.<\/p>\n<p>He said the tunnel was not complete, but was \u201cvery substantial,\u201d equipped with electricity, communications equipment and a ventilation system. It was located about 1 kilometre (half a mile) from an Israeli community.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has placed a high priority on halting the tunnel threat since Hamas infiltrated Israel during the 2014 war.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM \u2014 The Israeli military says it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":137924,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[38071,38070,38072],"class_list":["post-137923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-hamas-tunnel","tag-israeli-military","tag-new-techniques","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}