Israel says it has destroyed Hamas attack tunnel

JERUSALEM: Israeli forces on Sunday destroyed a “significant” cross-border attack tunnel from the Gaza Strip, which the military said was being dug by the enclave´s dominant Islamist group, Hamas.

The announcement, cleared by Israeli censors who had previously barred reports of detection work around the central Gaza frontier, followed a surge of Palestinian unrest in response to last week’s US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel´s capital. It also came as Palestinian factions tried to meet Sunday´s deadline for an Egyptian-mediated handover of Gaza by Hamas to Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas after a decade´s schism.