{"id":1010864,"date":"2026-08-19T13:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010864\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:51:36","slug":"idf-gaza-division-seals-hamas-tunnels-over-two-km-long-near-yellow-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1010864\/","title":{"rendered":"IDF Gaza Division seals Hamas tunnels over two km. long near Yellow Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two tunnels belonging to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905861\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hamas<\/a> were sealed in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF&#8217;s Gaza Division Combat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-904526\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Engineers<\/a> were deployed to seal the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-905783\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tunnels<\/a>, which had a combined length of more than two kilometers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Drone footage released by the IDF shows the tunnels running underground at length, packed with sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>The IDF also said that troops operating in the area are working in accordance with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-904233\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ceasefire<\/a> agreement, while maintaining that the IDF continues to work to remove immediate threats.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the IDF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-905915\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">struck a cafe<\/a> in northern Gaza City port, killing several Hamas commanders who were meeting there to plan imminent attacks against Israeli forces in the Strip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Six people in total were killed, with at least 10 others wounded in the strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A Gazan terror cell in Khan Yunis was also struck by the air force last week, which was likewise planning and preparing an operation against the military.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF has been ordered to halt its attacks in the Gaza Strip, with the exception of terrorists who are known to be planning to carry out imminent strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two tunnels belonging to Hamas were sealed in the Gaza Strip, the military announced on Wednesday. The IDF&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":982183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[181890,10321,70,45498,21077,174494,13854,4527,4784,13850,99,50,54552,39899],"class_list":["post-1010864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-attack-tunnels","tag-ceasefire","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-ceasefire","tag-gaza-city","tag-gaza-tunnels","tag-gaza-war","tag-hamas","tag-idf","tag-idf-soldiers","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-soldiers","tag-tunnel"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117122504255751827","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}