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2023-12-13 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: IDF has begun pumping seawater into Hamas tunnels in Gaza
“This is your final warning!”
[IsraelTimes] Wall Street Journal says tactic still at early stage and being evaluated; IDF chief has said it’s ’a good idea,’ but environmentalists and some US officials have voiced concern

The IDF has started pumping seawater into Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
’s underground tunnel system in 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 Hamas with 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 oppression and disproportionate response...
, a move aimed at destroying the Paleostinian terror group’s subterranean network of passages and hideaways and driving its operatives above ground, a report said Tuesday.

The development was reported by The Wall Street Journal, which earlier this month reported that the tactic was under "consideration" and that the Israel Defense Forces had set up five large water pumps near the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City, capable of flooding the tunnels within weeks by pumping thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into them.

On Tuesday, citing US officials briefed on the Israeli military’s operations, the American outlet reported that the operation was at an early stage and that the utility of the tactic was still being considered.

It said the method is one out of a few others weighed to tackle the tunnels, including Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s, use of liquid explosives, and dispatching dogs, drones and robots into the network.

IDF chief Herzi Halevi said last week that flooding the tunnels is "a good idea, but I won’t comment on its specifics."

The military has refused to comment on details of its operations to destroy the tunnel infrastructure.

US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
was asked Tuesday about the report.

"With regard to the flooding of the tunnels... There (are) assertions being made that there [are] no hostages in any of these tunnels, but I don’t know that for a fact," Biden said in response to a question on the matter during a presser at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky.

"I do know that, though, every civilian death is an absolute tragedy, and Israel has stated its intent to match its words with actions," the American president added.

Israel has vowed to topple Hamas after the October 7 massacres, in which some 3,000 Paleostinian bandidos bandidos bad boys stormed across the border from Gaza and slaughtered some 1,200 people, mostly civilians massacred amid brutal atrocities, and took around 240 hostages.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-12-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [18 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 After the monsoon passed we'd climb on top of our hooch and shoot the dog sized rats that climbed out of their flooded tunnels.

Prob frowned upon in this case.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-12-13 00:18||   2023-12-13 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 but environmentalists ... have voiced concern

Pseudohomo Terroristus Arabicus becomes endangered in one of it's native habitats?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2023-12-13 01:43||   2023-12-13 01:43|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm betting that this is going to contribute to global warming, or be caused by it, or something.
Posted by ed in texas 2023-12-13 09:01||   2023-12-13 09:01|| Front Page Top

#4 It should have started sooner!
Posted by Spats B. Hayes8168 2023-12-13 10:26||   2023-12-13 10:26|| Front Page Top

#5 It will be interesting to see how many buildings have sudden flooding in their basements or even unexpectedly collapse as this goes on.
Posted by EMSArtifact  2023-12-13 10:34||   2023-12-13 10:34|| Front Page Top

#6 Include some floaties in the next humanitarian convoy.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-13 13:08||   2023-12-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 It will be interesting to see how many buildings have sudden flooding in their basements or even unexpectedly collapse as this goes on.

Yup. Maybe put some of those little dealywappers in there like the movie Twister.
Posted by swksvolFF 2023-12-13 14:57||   2023-12-13 14:57|| Front Page Top

#8 good work!
Posted by irish rage boy 2023-12-13 17:53||   2023-12-13 17:53|| Front Page Top

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