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| The Troubling Reality Of Gaza's Tunnels |
| 2014-04-25 |
| [Ynet] Terrorists emerging from Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, tunnel discovered last month could have reached closest Israeli community within five minutes. Had this affair taken place in a different place and ascribed to different people, we would have found ourselves glued to the big screen. From our remote place, deep in our seats and perhaps running our hands through popcorn, we would have saluted the scriptwriter, the director and the actors for a breathtaking action film. In the first minutes we would have seen a line of 50, 100 and even hundreds of forces of Evil emerging from depths of a Paleostinian tunnel, one of the four tunnels unearthed in the past year. The cameras would wander inside the winding tunnel, more than two kilometers deep in the bowels of the earth, lined with concrete. It should be noted that we brought the concrete of the terror tunnels on ourselves. The camera in the film would dwell upon the entrance to the tunnel, located in the living room of a private house in Gazoo or in a henhouse. Upon returning to reality, the exact location of the opening on the Israeli side is alarming. Had we failed to unearth the terror tunnel last month, and those before it, a dreadful disaster could have taken place. Just think what would happen if dozens of gunnies managed to slip away at night, run just several meters to the tangled woods (a troubling location, as I said) and get organized to storm the closest Israeli community. This community nearly touches the tunnel's exit. It's a matter of five minutes and dozens of casualties on our side. Indeed, we've already seen the pictures and heard the commentators. But there's nothing like seeing it for yourself from close up. Last week I came, heard and saw what I saw, and entered the "Israeli" third of the tunnel without bending down and without making any effort. At a spitting distance beyond the fence I was able to spot the Egyptian patrol. I asked a (very) senior officer to promise that another Paleostinian tunnel is not being dug out under our feet as we speak. "One?" He smiled dryly. "Why not 10?" They will soon show us the "advanced" one, tunnel No. 4 which was unearthed last month. Longer, wider, with a double exit opening and with a deep track for a terror attack, professionally known as a "kidnapping route," in case they succeed big time. Since the Moslem Brüderbund government was brought down, we have been hearing about operations to drown Paleostinian tunnels on the Egyptian side. The moment a tunnel is spotted, a hole is dug out and is flooded with water until the tunnel collapses. They have destroyed 500, they say there are 1,000 tunnels, and the nightmare isn't over. This is Hamas' flagship project in Gazoo. Their prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... , is patient. After the third tunnel was uncovered on the Israeli side, he boasted that "thousands of heroes are working quietly underground, preparing the next battles over Paleostine." This is how the industry works: They intentionally dig slowly, in eight-to-10-hour shifts around the clock. They have accumulated experience of more than 10 years and a cadre of hundreds, and perhaps even more, diggers. Only eight workers per shift. No phones. They communicate by whispering. There are tunnels for goods and tunnels for human passage to the Egyptian side, and explosive tunnels to the Israeli side. Each of the 18 Hamas factions takes credit for tunnels -- a matter of livelihood and power. There is a tunnel manager and a foreman, engineers and electricians. The digger will earn from 60 to 80 shekels (about $17-23) per shift, and the funding comes from Tehran. An "advanced" tunnel is built in three years. No one is in a hurry on the Paleostinian side. If they get caught, they'll dig another one. The fact that they're working on a surprise element is troubling. And the most annoying thing is that, as it turns out, they are using the cement we transfer to Gazoo. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Counter-mining is an old skill. Israel needs to create a few mines at different depths and listen for digging and then destroy the tunnel before it is completed. Either that or let it be known that some radioctive material has been buried in the area and anyone digging through will go sterile and most likely die horribly. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-04-25 15:03 |
| #4 Build the moat on the Gaza side and 7 miles wide. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2014-04-25 13:53 |
| #3 the cement allowed into Gazoo needs to meet Flyash Liberation army Approval - minimum 75% Flyash. The IDF and IAF will find their explosives just that much more effective |
| Posted by: Frank G 2014-04-25 13:41 |
| #2 A moat won't help if they are lining tunnels with concrete. And now Iranian assets are un frozen there is plenty of mischief money to finance these projects. O is happy. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2014-04-25 11:16 |
| #1 Hey! Build that salt water moat all round to the Med for Gaza and forget the tunnels. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2014-04-25 09:41 |