Gaza – Israel has reached “only a fraction” of Hamas’s tunnels, Mushir al-Masri , a spokesman for the organization stated in an interview translated by MEMRI and made public on Monday.
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Masri was referring to the network of tunnels which Hamas has dug under the Gaza-Israel border in order to infiltrate Jewish communities and perpetuate terrorist attacks.
“We are convinced that our people are on the brink of liberation,” Masri said.
He continued by saying, “The Zionist enemy declared its ground war to destroy the tunnels but [we], the thousands of mujahideen from the al-Kassam Brigades (Hamas military wing) who dug these tunnels with their fingernails say that the Zionist enemy has reached only a fraction of these tunnels – [and we] will dig many more God willing.”
Regarding the heavy toll inflicted on Hamas and the Gaza Strip so far by the fighting, Masri claimed, “Even while the battle is being waged, the resistance is recuperating its military losses.”
According to an IDF source, Hamas built the network of tunnels that begin a few kilometers away from the Israeli border, and pass under the frontier, in a bid to enable dozens of terrorists to infiltrate the country.
In response, the IDF has used a wide array of firepower and ground units to tackle the challenge of locating and destroying many terror tunnels.
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I believe them. Hamas gets a lot of money in aid from the EU and is using all of it to build tunnels. They aren’t spending a dime on infrastructure in Gaza. Rats are always good at making tunnels.
I.Y.H. we will find a way to end the tunnels bekarov mammash
Mushir- If that’s true the troops will be staying in Gaza longer than anticipated. And I think you owe the UN and your other benefctors who gave money to Gaza why it was spent on tunnels instead of the intended purposes.
Flood them all
so i guess there is good reason for us to stay on and destroy and obviously lose more Palestinian/hams lives
Why not just dig a wide trench around the entire strip as far down as they can go? No more tunnels, and they can easily blow up any new ones (bridges).
Who says the purpose of the money given by the Europeans was not to build the tunnels? The Europeans quietly supported the efforts of the Third Reich but it is not PC to do that now. Instead they have their surrogates Hamas try and do it for them.
I read that on their end the Egyptians are filling the tunnels with waste. Human waste. Animal waste. I don’t know if Israel has enough waste to fill all the tunnels but it would be a good effort and symbolically pleasing.
Two words: Bunker Busters!