What Happens Inside Gaza’s Secret Tunnels? | Unpacked

Beneath the streets of Gaza lies a vast tunnel network. Once a lifeline for families, Hamas’ tunnels now enable terror while shielding fighters underground, leaving civilians exposed above.

Redefining modern warfare, Gaza’s underground network holds the key to understanding Israel and Hamas’ unprecedented standoff.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:51 Original intentions of the tunnels
03:31 Becoming a source of terror
05:26 Israel's failed attempts to neutralize the tunnels
07:04 Hamas investments in and dangers of the tunnels
10:55 Israel & Egypt's further attempts to neutralize the tunnels
12:56 Where does the money come from?
14:26 The tunnels as a military base & concealment
15:49 Palestinians used as human shields
17:44 Gaza War

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Let’s connect:
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Sources:
-Israel Unearths More of a Subterranean Fortress Under Gaza. The New York Times. Jan 16, 2024.
-Green, Mark A. Hamas and the Gazan Tunnels. Wilson Center. Nov 7, 2023.
-Richemond-Barak, Daphné. Hamas Has Reinvented Underground Warfare. Foreign Affairs. Jun 6, 2024.
-Footage shows inside of 'biggest ever' Gaza tunnel. BBC. Dec 18, 2023.
IDF: Hamas tunnels poured thousands of tons of concrete and metal into terror. JPost. Jan 11, 2024.
-A look at the billions of dollars in foreign aid to Gaza. APNews. Dec 20, 2021
-Inside the tunnels of Gaza. Reuters. Dec 31, 2023.
-Tunnels once connected Egypt and Gaza. Here's what they looked like 10 years ago. NPR. Dec 11, 2023.
-Hamas Attack Tunnels Are Still a Serious Danger. Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Oct 17, 2018.
-Ahronheim, Anna. No rockets since 2 a.m. ceasefire, over 100 km of Hamas tunnels destroyed. JPost. May 21, 2021
-Berlinger, Joshua. The ‘Gaza metro’: The mysterious subterranean tunnel network used by Hamas. CNN. Oct 28, 2023.
-Spencer, John. Gaza’s Underground: Hamas’s Entire Politico-Military Strategy Rests On Its Tunnels. Modern War Institute. Jan 18, 2024.
-Ben Yishai, Ron. IDF Fighting New Kind Of War, Making Military History. YNetnews. Dec 27, 2023.
-Analysis of Gisha's Tunnel Statements: Why Would Hamas Steal from International Organizations? NGO-monitor.
-Lazaroff, Tovah. Israel: Hamas Stealing 95% of Civilian Cement Transferred into Gaza. Jerusalem Post. May 25, 2016.
-Sharp, Jeremy. The Egypt-Gaza Border and its Effect on Israeli-Egyptian Relations. CRS Report for Congress. Feb 1, 2008.
-Deaths of 160 Palestinian Children Forced to Work on Terror Tunnels; SWC Urges UN Human Rights Council Investigation of Hamas. Simon Wiesenthal Center.
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Image and footage credits:
Doctors Without Borders : MSF-USA
IDF Spokespersons' Office
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Executive Producer:
— Barry Skolnick
Co-Executive Producer:
— Shmuel Katz
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Translation credits:
Portuguese: Saymon Pires

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[gemthinley]

Huge amount of dollars wasted in construction of tunnels rather then spending dollars on improving infrastructure, roads, schools, hospitals and living standards and conditions. Instead always working for war and procurement of war machines and military weapons to carry out terrorism against neighboring countries.

[Franklin-km]

Initially the hamas and Muslim medias denied the presence of tunnels

[joesilver]

THE PA DID NOT FAIL in shutting down the tunnels between Sinai and Gaza. They allowed them to exist, with the complicity of Egyptian Military Intelligence, in order to support the Muslim Jihad against Israel and the West.

[fboomerang]

Question for everyone. Who built the Egypt <-> Gaza wall?

[iamjames]

17:44 That's like a kid hitting you where it hurts in the school yard and you hit back but only you get in trouble, and the kid who started it gets off scott free.

[moonlightwithlove]

wish instead of building tunnels they had built schools and hospitals and orphanages, sad

[Paimonology]

What the heck did he just say gaza is like the bermuda triangle😂😂😂that caught me laughing so hard,
No wonder UN aid relief assistance, disappeared so fast and the people complaining of famine

[danielholmes]

😮 there's no factories in Gaza there's no companies they lived off of aid from the UN from American taxpayer money that made those tunnels America's been a sucker too long let them go to work and provide for themselves their own Farms their own companies😊

[jcthejfreak]

This appears to be incredibly well-researched, nuanced, and fact-based. I hope mainstream media companies were half as careful with information as this channel is. I hope your hard work pays off. Please continue to be commited to exposing the truth. Palestinians should be free... free from Hamas and other terrorist organizations that are indoctrinating them and keeping them in poverty. Israel should also be free to defend their tiny country from terrorists as they see fit.

[YonieZukowsky]

They chose building terror tunnels over taking care of their own people.Sad.

[dinfar]

1 thing for sure,
Never let an American news outlet or whatever this is tell you about what is going on in the middle east.

[gworldmedia]

Billions of dollars in tunnels instead of infrastructures to lift their people out of poverty and struggle

[JayantBarve]

Excellant, eye opening and revealing the monsters of Gaza !

[RickRoss-qe]

Good job for explaining the whole situation

[johnle]

Hey I’m a Vietnamese from south Vietnam and I’m supporting the IDF 100%

[Maniglia]

Egypt should have took Gaza under their country and legalize the people instead of ignoring them.
Gazans have been left behind and hated the Jews because that’s what they have been taught. Very sad 😢

[abdullaho]

2:18 using israeli flag for people of gaza biased

[kazkazimierz]

Israel has killed something like 50K people in Gaza. How many of them were Hamas? How many were women and children?

[TheENDAmac]

Gazans are an inspiration to the world. Brave and resilient

[hellheaven-dybz]

man gets paid by hasbara more than youtube pays him