Tel Aviv -- The tunnel was located approximately 800 meters from the border, near Kibbutz Kissufim, and is entirely within Israel's side of the Yellow Line.

After heavy rain and flooding exposed a terror tunnel in northern Gaza, IDF Golani Brigade soldiers discovered the site several hundred meters from the border, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The soldiers, part of the 12th Battalion, discovered the tunnel after rain and flood-induced landslides shifted the ground, revealing it.

The tunnel was located approximately 800 meters from the border, near Kibbutz Kissufim, and is entirely within Israel’s side of the Yellow Line.

Security sources told Walla on Monday that the military is in “a race against time” to locate and destroy tunnels between the Gaza border fence and the Yellow Line.

This is due to the increasing likelihood that diplomatic factors will halt operations.

The military has reinforced engineering units in Gaza and expanded earthworks across the buffer area, the officials said.

The effort includes fortifying existing outposts, improving defenses along the Yellow Line and the border fence, demolishing above-ground structures, and, most intensively, locating and demolishing tunnels.