article_snippet: In a tunnel dug deep underneath the Gaza Stripthe Gaza Strip, masked gunmen from Islamic Jihad ferry rockets and mortars back and forth, preparing for the next conflict with Israel.
article_snippet: Heavily armed: Palestinian militants from Islamic Jihad's armed wing, the Al-Quds Brigades, squat in a tunnel used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in the Gaza Strip .
article_snippet: Under cover: Palestinian militants hide in a tunnel used for ferrying rockets and mortars back and forth in preparation for Islamic Jihad's next conflict with Israel .
article_snippet: Israel's ground invasion was aimed at destroying the hundreds of tunnels Gaza's two main Islamist groups had built, both for smuggling supplies and for attacks inside Israel.
article_snippet: Islamic Jihad and Hamas staged deadly assaults on Israeli troops using the tunnels.
article_snippet: Still there: Israel's ground invasion during the 50-day war with Palestinian militants in the summer of 2014 was aimed at destroying the hundreds of tunnels used by Gaza's two main Islamist groups .
article_snippet: It was an open secret before July 2013 that smuggling tunnels underneath the Egyptian border brought in much of Gaza's construction and fuel needs, money, and weapons, or the material to make them.
article_snippet: Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad have openly declared that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad are rebuilding tunnels and testing rockets and other things like that,' army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said. '
article_snippet: It was an open secret before July 2013 that smuggling tunnels underneath the Egyptian border brought in much of Gaza's construction and fuel needs, money, and weapons, or the material to make them .
highlights_snippet: Jihadis are using tunnels to smuggle weapons beneath the Gaza Strip .
  