Updated: July 25, 2014 at 3:01 PM

The Tunnels of Gaza (35 images)

Israeli troops moved into Gaza last week in an attempt to eliminate networks of tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border, which it says Hamas uses to penetrate Israel and carry out attacks.

A Palestinian smuggler speaks on a telephone wired to a connection on the Egpytian side of a smuggling tunnel running under the border between southern Gaza and Egypt operated from the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza on June 27, 2008. (UPI Photo/Ismael Mohamad)

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A Palestinian youth works inside a smuggling tunnel beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza, October 8, 2013. G UPI/Ismael Mohamad

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A Palestinian youth works inside a smuggling tunnel flooded by Egyptian forces, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip February 19, 2013. UPI/Ismael Mohamad..

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A Palestinian worker rests in a smuggling tunnel in Rafah, on the border between Egypt and the southern Gaza, October 8, 2013. UPI/Ismael Mohamad

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