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(12,130 posts)In the 2006 Gaza cross-border raid, Palestinian militants used a tunnel to abduct Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
On July 17, 2014, Hamas militants crossed the Israeli border through a tunnel near to the farming village of Sufa but were stopped by Israeli Defense Forces. Israeli authorities claimed the purpose had been to attack civilians.
On July 21, 2014, two squads of armed Palestinian militants crossed the Israeli border through a tunnel near Kibbutz Nir Am. The first squad of ten was killed by an Israeli air strike. A second squad killed four Israeli soldiers using an anti-tank weapon. The Jerusalem Post reported that the attackers sought to infiltrate Kibbutz Nir Am, but a military source interviewed by the Times of Israel argued "the Hamas gunmen were not in motion or en route to a kibbutz but rather had camouflaged themselves in the field, laying an ambush for an army patrol."
On July 28, Hamas militants attacked an Israeli military outpost near Nahal Oz using a tunnel, killing five Israeli soldiers. One attacker was also killed.
Aug. 1, 2014 Hamas militants emerging from a tunnel attacked an Israeli patrol killing 2 Israeli soldiers. Israel at first believed that the militants had abducted Lieutenant Hadar Goldin and were holding him, but Israel later determined that Goldin had also been killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_tunnel_warfare_in_the_Gaza_Strip