Israel discovered a 7 km long, 25 meter deep and 80 rooms Hamas tunnel in the Rafah area of Gaza. This was where the remains of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the 2014 war, were kept. The IDF also found several command posts and weapons storage.
New Delhi. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have recently discovered a very large and complex Hamas tunnel in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. This tunnel was not an ordinary tunnel, but an “underground complex” with 7 kilometers long, 25 meters deep and 80 rooms. The remains of Lieutenant Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the 2014 Israel-Hamas war, were kept in the same tunnel.
The IDF shared a video of the tunnel on X, showing it passing beneath a densely populated area, the UNRWA compound, mosques, clinics and kindergartens. The IDF says the tunnel was used by Hamas commanders to store weapons, plan attacks and remain in hiding for long periods of time.
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Was this tunnel the ‘secret command center’ of Hamas?
Many of the rooms found in the tunnel were directly used by senior Hamas commanders as operation planning and command posts. These included the command posts of Mohammed Shabana, who was killed along with Hamas leader Mohammed Sinwar in May. The tunnel was used not only for attacks, but also for storing weapons and planning strategies.
How were Lieutenant Goldin’s remains found?
The IDF reported that Hadar Goldin’s body was hidden in this tunnel. They were brought back to Israel during the July 2025 operation, through several covert missions conducted over the past 6 months. The IDF also arrested Marwan al-Hammes, a Hamas member involved in Goldin’s death and suspected of knowing the location of his body in the tunnel.
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Latest update of Gaza war
A recent airstrike killed five and injured 18 in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, during the Gaza war that began in October 2023. Several civilians were also killed in the attacks in the cities of Suhaila and Abasan. Both Hamas and Israel are accusing each other of breaking the nearly six-week-old ceasefire.
The Gaza War began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas attacked southern Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory attacks killed more than 69,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians.
Did the IDF reveal Hamas’s biggest secret?
Looking at the length, depth and number of rooms of the tunnel, it is clear that it was not an ordinary tunnel. Hamas created it to create a hidden “underground network” that was vital to their strategy and weapons supply. The IDF’s discovery not only helped return Goldin’s remains to Israel, but also exposed Hamas’s hidden operations.