Much has been made of Hamas’s use of tunnels to smuggle arms and fighters into the Gaza Strip.  They also used these tunnels to shoot Qassam rockets and hide from the IDF.  The following, from Newsweek (emphasis added):

“They [the Israelis] were claiming there are tunnels under here,” she said. Hamas fighters use tunnels, often short ones that are little more than bunkers, to pop out and launch attacks and then get back in, hiding from Israel’s ubiquitous surveillance drones, reemerging in a house or backyard as an unarmed civilian. “There aren’t any tunnels around here, we are not resistance,” she said. Yet not more than 20 feet away from Najah, there was just such a tunnel, which Israeli troops had unearthed. Right in the middle of the road, it had a convincingly camouflaged roof that matched the rest of the road. Inside it was shored up with timbers and concrete.

In similar news, the Associated Press reports today that Palestinians are reopening their smuggling tunnels, some of which were damaged during the recent operation.  While smuggling Iranian weapons may not have restarted, this may be a sign of things to come.

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