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- October
2018
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IDF’s Specialist Tunnel Detection Team
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‘We spend days and nights in the field until we find the tunnel’
Based in three trailers near the Gaza border, with advanced computers and technologies, is ‘the lab’: 10 soldiers—some of whom finished their physics degree in high school—who already found 15 terror tunnels, the latest neutralized this week; when the need arises, they go out to the field and under the ground; ‘finding a tunnel is not a scavenger’s hunt. It’s a game of chest against Hamas,’ says one.
Article link: https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5370114,00.html
Also of interest was the linked video via the Times of Israel; released 11 October 2018. This provides some visual insight into the techniques and science being employed in the field.
Video link: https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-releases-footage-of-gaza-tunnel-discovery-destruction/