IDF Finds Terror Tunnel Near UN School in Gaza

The IDF destroyed a tunnel in Rafah running from an UNRWA school, and said it was used by Islamic Jihad to manufacture rockets.

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, on Jan. 1, 2024. Amir Cohen/Reuters

In the Gaza fighting over the last few days the Israeli army reported finding terrorist activity at U.N. sites at opposite ends of the Gaza Strip.

In Rafah, near the strip’s southern border, the army attacked and destroyed a 500-meter-long tunnel (about 547 yards long) adjoining a U.N.-run school in the Tel al-Sultan neighborhood in Rafah, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said in a public statement. Underneath it was what was described as Islamic Jihad’s largest underground site in the Gaza Strip for the production of rocket parts and long-range rockets.