[Photo/Agencies]A military statement said that according to intelligence, the tunnel was built by the Hamas, an Islamist organization that runs Gaza. The tunnel was built to commit "terror" attacks against Israel, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Spokesman Brigadier Ronen Manelis told journalists. In the recent tunnel, the army said it took a different approach to "quietly neutralizing" the tunnel, without elaborating on how was it neutralized. Israel seized the Gaza Strip in the 1967 Middle East war, along with the West Bank. Since 2007, following the winning of Hamas in the elections in Gaza, Israel has imposed a blockade on the strip.