While the mainstream media does it best to convince us that the palestinians use their tunnels to smuggle in food (of both the canned and live variety), they are less concerned with alerting people to their other uses.
The security services arrested five weeks ago a Hamas operative who infiltrated Israel from Gaza in a bid to kidnap Israel Defense Forces soldiers, it emerged on Sunday.
The IDF and Shin Bet security service arrested Jemal abu Duabah, a resident of southern Gaza town of Rafah, after he illegally entered Israel from Sinai.
A Shin Bet investigation revealed that he entered Sinai from Gaza via a tunnel. During his stay in Sinai, he made his final arrangements for the abduction of the troops, whom he planned to smuggle back into the Gaza Strip.
As of the writing of this post, this story has not been reported by one news outlet outside of Israel.
