[IsraelTimes] A day after the IDF announced the discovery of an "attack tunnel" inside Israeli territory emanating from the Gazoo Strip, the tunnel was destroyed, according to Paleostinian reports cited by Israeli media.
Explosions could be heard by residents of Gazoo border communities on Tuesday, Army Radio reported.
Other reports, including on Channel 2, indicated the tunnel was sealed and made non-operational, rather than collapsed.
The IDF said Monday that the concrete-lined tunnel -- some two kilometers long -- was found last week adjacent to the southern Gazoo Strip. The discovery was kept under wraps by the military censor until Monday.
The tunnel’s exact location is still being kept under wraps by the military censor, though it does not appear that the tunnel led directly into Holit or Sufa, the Israeli communities closest to the southern Gazoo Strip.
The find last week was made by a private Israeli firm which may have found a second cross-border passageway later Monday.
The company, hired to search for tunnels by residents of Gazoo-border communities, has detected a hollow underground shaft that it says may have been dug by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, in order to carry out terror attacks in Israel, a report on Channel 2 news.
The firm, not named in the report, is said to have been carrying out scans of land around a number of communities where residents have complained of hearing digging noises beneath their feet. 
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