Many of Apollonov's projects have gained widespread media attention in Australia, including his trip to North Korea to get a haircut, his successful attempt to enter Star casino in Sydney with overt COVID-19 symptoms, and for recreating the Utah monolith in Australia. Other projects have included building a laser guided drone that drops steel darts creating a hammer that uses blank rounds to drive nails, and strapping a submachine gun to a robot dog. Much of his content involves using his engineering and fabrication skills to design and build a variety of projects, including recreating the Utah monolith in Australia, simulating the Aurora Borealis in his kitchen with a high voltage transformer to parody The Simpsons, and making a scaled-up chainsaw powered Beyblade with a giant circular blade that is spun by a chainsaw motor.

He is also the co-star of Boy Boy which he created with fellow comedian Aleksa Vulović who also stars in his videos. Satellite images appear to show excavation work in the area in late November.Alex Apollonov is an Australian YouTube personality and comedian, better known for his online presence as I Did a Thing, and his YouTube channel of the same name. The IDF posted on its Telegram account in October that 'soldiers operating adjacent to the Erez Crossing identified a number of terrorists exiting the shaft of a tunnel'. The BBC has previously verified drone footage released by Hamas in October showing Israeli troops near a tunnel close to Erez.

The BBC has not been able to verify these two videos or the claims about the tunnels.

The IDF also shared video it said was filmed by Hamas during the construction of the tunnel. Israel has described him in the past as the head of logistics and manpower of the movement, and also says he oversaw construction of the tunnel. The IDF also released footage it said was 'seized during ground operations in Gaza' and claimed it showed Muhammad Sinwar, the brother of Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, driving a car inside the tunnel. The Israel Defense Forces said it was 50m deep and about 4km (2.5 miles) long.

On Sunday, Reuters filmed inside the tunnel, which it said was about three metres wide and deep. The Israeli military has shown journalists what it says is the largest ever Hamas tunnel it has found in Gaza, with an entrance close to the Erez checkpoint - the main pedestrian crossing point into Israel.

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