{"id":611943,"date":"2026-09-10T16:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611943\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T16:32:10","slug":"border-police-seal-tunnel-near-givat-zeev-dug-from-palestinian-village","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/611943\/","title":{"rendered":"Border Police seal tunnel near Givat Ze&#8217;ev dug from Palestinian village"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Border Police officers sealed a hidden tunnel that had been dug near Givat Ze\u2019ev, north of Jerusalem, Israel Police announced on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Police discovered the tunnel two weeks ago in the Palestinian village of Al Jib. According to the police, following the tunnel&#8217;s discovery, Border Police launched an investigation and arrested one suspect with digging tools.<\/p>\n<p>An archaeological study of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/tunnel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tunnel<\/a> revealed that its entrance had been hidden by an ancient cistern, which also served to mask the digging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Observers from the Border Police patrol unit initially noticed the group digging a tunnel near the fence and alerted officers in the field, who then went to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As security forces approached, the suspects fled the scene, triggering a foot chase during which shots were fired into the air. The only suspect detained was the 36-year-old Kalandiya resident, who was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-906384\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> within Israel&#8217;s borders without a valid permit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Border Police officers sealed a hidden tunnel that had been dug near Givat Ze\u2019ev, north of Jerusalem, Israel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13840,44917,85,46,1158,43,75233,77],"class_list":["post-611943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arrest","tag-border-police","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-tunnel","tag-west-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}