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IDF says it foiled Hamas attack tunnel with two branches along northern Gaza border
[IsraelTimes] Official says tunnel first struck during last year’s war, but since repaired and extended by Hamas, the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,; it crossed into Israeli territory, but posed no danger due to underground wallThe Israel Defense Forces on Monday revealed it discovered and "foiled" a tunnel dug by the Hamas terror group in the northern Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppressionand disproportionate response... Strip that crossed into Israeli territory though it did not manage to penetrate Israel’s border barrier. According to the IDF, the "terror tunnel," which had two branches, did not pose a danger to Israeli towns along the border, as Israel has a high-tech underground wall protecting its southern towns against Gazook attack tunnels, which once posed a major threat. Israel’s subterranean barrier — an underground reinforced concrete wall that is studded with sensors to detect tunnels — runs parallel to the overground border — a 20-foot (six-meter) steel fence — inside Israeli territory, several dozen meters from the internationally marked border. The IDF also has a network of radar arrays, other surveillance sensors, and remote-controlled weaponry along the border. The IDF said it had found the tunnel as part of a "constant and ongoing effort to locate terror tunnels and neutralize them." "This is an attack tunnel with two branches, which crossed into Israeli territory but did not cross the new security barrier, and therefore did not pose a risk to the residents of Israel at any stage," said Brig. Gen. Nimrod Aloni, the outgoing commander of the IDF’s Gaza Division. He appeared to be indicating that had Hamas members exited the tunnel, they would have still faced Israel’s tall fence running along the border. According to Aloni, a part of the tunnel had been struck during May 2021’s 11-day war between Israel and Hamas, but had since been repaired and rebuilt, including the two new branches which extended into Israel. "Recently, we identified efforts to restore the route of the old tunnel, and after conducting scans we located the tunnel with the two branches," he said. The IDF did not say exactly how deep the tunnel was, but said its entrance was in the Gaza City area. The tunnel was rendered inoperable after the military poured massive amounts of concrete into the two passages. During a three-day battle with the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... terror group last week, the IDF struck another attack tunnel, this one from southern Gaza. It too did not cross into Israel due to the underground wall. Posted by: trailing wife 2022-08-16 |
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