Paywalled A detachment of Israeli engineering troops was demolishing tunnels behind the withdrawal line in Gaza last month when Hamas militants sprang from a hidden shaft, fired an antitank missile toward their excavator and killed two soldiers.

A little over a week earlier, Israel and Hamas had agreed to a ceasefire. Israel responded to the deadly encounter with a round of air strikes on Gaza that killed dozens of people.

The early test of the fragile truce pointed to a bigger problem: hundreds of armed Hamas fighters are trapped in tunnels under the Israeli-controlled side of Gaza, and willing to take shots at Israel. .... Article continues with several hundred MORE words

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