US and Israeli officials believe about 80% of Hamas’ tunnels under Gaza are still intact after over three months of Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
The report is another sign that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s goal of wanting to “eradicate” Hamas is unrealistic as the tunnels are a key part of the group’s infrastructure.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz recently reported that sources within the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said they would be unable to destroy most Hamas tunnels and that the underground network is significantly larger than Israel initially thought.
According to The New York Times, Israel previously estimated there were 100 miles of tunnels below Gaza. But now, they estimate the tunnel network is up to 450 miles in length.
Israel has flooded some of the tunnels with water, but the strategy was not as effective as they hoped. US officials told the Journal that in some areas, unexpected barriers slowed or stopped the flow of water altogether.
There are also signs the Israeli military has flooded some tunnels with poison gas. The bodies of three Israeli hostages were found in Hamas tunnels by the Israeli military, and the mother of one of the victims alleged they were killed by Israeli forces pumping poison gas, citing a toxicology report.
“Ron was indeed murdered,” wrote Dr. Maayan Sherman, a veterinarian and mother of Ron Sherman, an Israeli soldier who was taken hostage in Gaza on October 7 and found dead in the tunnels. “Not by Hamas … not by stray bullets and not in an exchange of fire. This was deliberate murder. Bombing with poison gas.”
Fuel air explosives.Just imagine that Gaza had used tunnel building resources for some peaceful purposes,such as sewage treatment.
Gaza did not. One of the problem of the UNRWA system is that is allows Palestinians to live free simply because their grand parents lost a war. This permanent welfare system allows Hamas to build tunnels instead of an economy. Information is slowing coming out that UNRWA not only funded the Hamas attack on 10/7 but members of UNRWA were directly involved.
Live free? You mean live imprisoned within walls, not allowing to cross over for a job? Not allowed to travel on certain streets, even when those streets were where their front doors opened onto? Live free? You mean get kicked out of their homes or have it bulldozed because a settler now claimed it? Live free? You mean getting arrested for liking a post on social media? Live free? Not allowed to harvest their own olive crops because settlers would come out to harass them and shoot at them?
Live free? You mean live imprisoned within walls, not allowing to cross over for a job? Not allowed to travel on certain streets, even when those streets were where their front doors opened onto? Live free? You mean get kicked out of their homes or have it bulldozed because a settler now claimed it? Live free? You mean getting arrested for liking a post on social media? Live free? Not allowed to harvest their own olive crops because settlers would come out to harass them and shoot at them?
For one thing, Sully, any time the ASI got its knickers in a knot in the past several decades when Hamassian elements fired “rockets” into ASI fields or Iron Dome interceptors, one of the IDF’s favorite targets was Gaza’s limited sewage treatment infrastructure. “Peaceful sewage treatment” would’ve been destroyed several times over by the time your “noun verb Oct 7” came about.
And another – if you’re implying the tunnels could have been used for sewage treatment, no. Sewage treatment requires power and especially oxygen; Gaza barely had functional power for decades (again, fuel embargoe and IDF targeting of power generation) and thus pumping air into underground sewage treatment also wouldn’t be possible.
Why? Anything built in Gaza gets destroyed on a regular basis. Besides, Hamas was an Israeli creation and Israel undoubtedly had a big hand in building these tunnels! Water treatment and sewage facilities? Israel would bomb them over some incident! If you want to propose “peaceful purposes” maybe you should contact the Israeli embassy!
“undoubtedly had a big hand in building these tunnels” Care to explain that?
They must have foreseen the attempted genocide and prepared somewhat? The victims in the Warsaw Ghetto should have tunneled too.
Just think if the Warsaw Ghetto inhabitants had used some of their resources to improve their infrastructure instead of using them to carrying out an insurrection?
Netanyahu: Let’s commit “Deliberate Murder!” …A month later: How dare you accuse me of “Deliberate Murder?”
I do believe the use of Poison Gas is a war crime not that would stop Israel from using it.Did they develop it themselves or was it a gift from the US
US and Israeli officials believe about 80% of Hamas’ tunnels under Gaza are still intact after over three months of Israel’s relentless bombing campaign, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
I assume Israel considers destroying the tunnels as being imperative to destroying Hamas. It’s scary to think what the death toll will be if the slaughter thus far has only achieved a 20% “success” rate.
Israel can only kill Palestinians on surface with US weapons…!
The little I’ve been able to garner on my own is that the main tunnel complex is very very deep, and not merely extensive. The same sources stated that the shallow tunnels are there for temporary use to enable movement of people and supplies from place to place, and are closed off following operations at the surface.
Why are the tunnels Israel’s business? Israel does not own the land, they are the occupier and the Palestinians have every right to do whatever is necessary, to protect their land and population. No different than when Americans build shelters and store weapons, food, supplies, etc. Israel needs to be held responsible for the cost of rebuilding GAZA and the West Bank.
So now ‘Netanyahu is killing his own people with WMD.”? Wasn’t that the charge that the mongers used to justify the embargoes, bombings, killings, and invasions of Iraq?
I wonder if the Israelis might have been thinking that those dirty Arabs would never suspect that Israel might decide to flood Hamas’ tunnel system… Hmmm
The Palestinian resistance must stay vigilant in the face of Israel’s terrorist murder campaign and the collective West being lapdogs for Israeli October 7th propaganda regarding UNWRA.
No evidence by the way..never is when it comes to Israeli claims about anyone critical of their obvious crimes and exploits.
Hamas tunnels are 450 miles in length, in the Gaza strip that is 175 square miles. Why is it taking so long? USA Viet Nam Tunnel Rats would have clean out Hamas tunnels in less than two months.
Is that why all those Americans died for nothing?
Why doesnt US/Israel just use controlled explosives to bring them down like they did the world trade centers and building 7? They obviously don’t care about the hostages and civilians, just like they didn’t care about people on 9-11.
Indeed ! Then once again we’d have rooftops of Israeli students cheering as it happened.
Building are knock down, because you know they are tall. Tunnels are not knock down, because they are you know underground.
Oh, because explosives are never used underground..right
Trooferism will never die. It’s so embarrassingly-stupid that you’d think no one with an IQ exceeding 80 could be sucked in, but alas . . .
I find it hilarious that anyone with an IQ over 80 could not see that it was controlled demolition. So many engineers, architects, firefighters and witnesses have revealed this, but I guess they’re all just dumb “troofers” and should listen to your wisdom or that of George w. Bush’s.
Yes, absolutely. You’re all just dumb Troofers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_controlled_demolition_conspiracy_theories
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a6384/debunking-911-myths-world-trade-center/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/05/9-11-conspiracy-theories-debunked
https://theconversation.com/9-11-conspiracy-theories-debunked-20-years-later-engineering-experts-explain-how-the-twin-towers-collapsed-167353
ttps://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/NCSTAR/ncstar1.pdf
I’ve been looking through my saved videos and links that had eyewitness and firefighter accounts. The YouTube videos have been mostly deleted. I can’t find the links. Funny how convenient that is. The media, government, and tech giants would NEVER lie to us or cover anything up right?
And false flags were NEVER used to drag the country into a war?
But seriously,
I assume that you would agree with me that the aftermath of 911 and it’s use as a justification for all that happened afterward (not just the wars, but also the gigantic security surveillance system set in place along with the dismantling of several of our constitutional rights) was a terrible thing .
Don’t underestimate the ability of those in power to stoop to such levels. There is a lot more going on, but you wouldn’t believe it and I wouldn’t waste my time for closed minds.
I find it hilarious that anyone with an IQ over 80 could not see that it was controlled demolition. So many engineers, architects, firefighters and witnesses have revealed this, but I guess they’re all just dumb “troofers” and should listen to your wisdom or that of George w. Bush’s.
The dancing Israeli’s cheering the towers being hit was very telling considering the massive spy ring of Mossad operatives at the time, and that they admitted to coming to witness an event…Hmmmm…
I thought “gassing your own people” was supposed to be a bad thing. At least it was when Sadaam and Assad were accused of doing it.
Hmmm, Jews gassing Arabs. I suppose Israel can no longer use the excuse of Hitler gasing Jews for anything…..