Jerusalem – IDF Official: Hamas Has Restored Rocket, Tunnel Capabilities

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    FILE - Israel military vehicles patrol the Israeli side of the Israel-Gaza border January 25, 2017. REUTERS/Amir CohenJerusalem – Hamas has entirely rebuilt the military strength it had at the beginning of Operation Protective Edge in June, 2014, a senior defense official said Tuesday.

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    Hebrew-language Channel 2 reported that the terror group has rebuilt tunnels and replaced its stockpile of missiles with locally-made models. In addition, security officials are concerned that the recent reconciliation agreement between Hamas and the Egyptian government could ease the import of weapons and ammunition to the Gaza Strip via the Rafiah border crossing.

    The report followed Palestinian claims that Muhammad a-Zouari, a Tunisian aviation engineer who was assassinated in Tunisia last month, had visited Gaza “several times” in recent years, evading Israel’s land and naval blockade and avoiding detection by Israeli authorities while in the Strip. Hamas blames Israel for the assassination.

    Protective Edge was the third protracted military operation against Gaza since Binyamin Netanyahu took office in 2009, and the fourth since Israel withdrew from the Strip in 2006. Hamas fired more than 4,564 rockets and mortar shells at civilian targets in Israel during the conflict, killing six civilians including a four-year-old boy. Sixty-four IDF soldiers died in the ground campaign, and 32 Hamas tunnels were destroyed.

    However, the conflict claimed a greater price on the Palestinian side: According to the Office of the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), 5,359 trucks carrying 959 tons of medicine and medical supplies entered the Strip through the Carni, Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings, and that entered through the Kerem Shalom crossing. But Gaza health officials said 2,200 Palestinians died during the war, including more than 1,000 civilians. More than 20,000 homes were destroyed.


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    7 years ago

    thank you Mr Obama for supporting the Palestinian TERRORIST groups

    Normal
    Normal
    7 years ago

    Obama’s hundreds of millions of dollars being put to good use.

    Meloah
    Meloah
    7 years ago

    Rockets proved to be useless before and should be even more useless now. Laser system can knock them down.

    The question are the tunnels. But I have a question: if they infiltrated armed men into Israeli cities and captured dozens of civilians while killing many, wouldn’t Israel be allowed to retaliate by completely destroying nearby Palestinian towns?

    Or if Israel has video monitoring of the streets, they can alerted instantly of terrorist attack and pursue them in the tunnels, pumping in tons of explosive and poisonous gases. Yes, there would be civilian casualties, but in every war that is inevitable. We should make it that they should regret it and lost again, a lot more than gain.

    triumphinwhitehouse
    triumphinwhitehouse
    7 years ago

    and the Zionists still supply them water.