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| Israeli Army Aims for Gaza's 'Highly Developed' Tunnels |
| 2014-07-19 |
| [An Nahar] The Israeli army's ground offensive in Gazoo is purportedly aimed at destroying a network of sophisticated cross-border tunnels, which Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, and other Death Eaters have dug to infiltrate Israeli lines. In 2006 Israel imposed a blockade on the impoverished coastal enclave after Gazoo Death Eaters captured an Israeli soldier in a cross-border raid. This pushed Hamas and other Death Eaters to dig tunnels under the border with Egypt to spirit into the densely populated Gazoo Strip food, fuel, a variety of consumer goods as well as weapons. In March, Egypt's military said it has destroyed 1,370 smuggling tunnels under its border with the Gazoo Strip, months after it ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi who was a Hamas ally. Israel is now after dozens of so-called "terror tunnels" in Gazoo and the army says it has already found eight access points. "Dozens of terror tunnels are spread throughout the Gazoo Strip, the majority of them constructed and utilized by Hamas," an army front man said in a statement Friday. "The Hamas tunnel network is highly developed and continuously preserved interconnecting launch sites, rocket maintenance and command and control positions," the statement said. On Thursday morning, 13 heavily-armed Death Eaters managed to infiltrate southern Israel before being spotted by troops, with one killed in an air strike and the rest fleeing back underground. Haaretz newspaper reported Friday that five cross-border tunnels have been found in Israel over the past two years. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 And then they should aim for the "less developed" tunnels. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2014-07-19 18:01 |
| #1 It seems to me that stopping the flow of construction materials and tools into Gaza is a first step. No steel, no lumber, no wire, no hammers, no nothing. Egypt seems to be putting the screws on the tunnel trade, but I wonder how effective they really are. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-07-19 14:54 |