Israeli forces wrapped up a tunnel-hunting operation in the southern Gaza Strip. Troops and military engineers pulled out of Rafah, a town straddling the Gaza-Egypt border, on Tuesday after exposing and destroying 15 tunnels used by Palestinian terrorists to smuggle in arms. At least four Palestinians who tried to attack Israeli forces during the almost weeklong mission were killed.
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