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Hamas's tunnels are bigger in scale than the Tube in London - what can Israel do?
SKY News ^ | December 9, 2023 | By Sean Bell

Posted on 12/09/2023 5:29:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Despite overwhelming military superiority, Israel is struggling to develop an effective strategy to tackle the tunnel network under Gaza.

This "underworld" has provided Hamas with a degree of sanctuary beyond the gaze of satellites, drones and military forces.

How will Israel defeat Hamas without destroying the tunnel network?

The "Gaza metro" is bigger in scale than the London Underground network. Many of the tunnels were originally dug in the early 1980s to bypass the border between Egypt and Rafah, enabling the illegal smuggling of trade and weapons.

However, they have since been expanded into two further categories: defensive and offensive.

The former is primarily focused on the storage of weapons, logistic supplies (fuel, water and food) and command and control HQs, whereas the latter is an elaborate network of tunnels across the border into Israel to enable Hamas to take small-scale offensive action, and crucially to seize hostages.

Since assuming control of Gaza in 2006, Hamas has taken the development of the tunnel network to a new level.

The soft sandstone under Gaza is conducive to tunnelling, but Hamas has also adapted the network in response to Israel's various attempts to destroy it.

Bunker buster bombs could penetrate deep underground - and if they did not destroy a tunnel directly, the shifting sands would cause nearby tunnels to implode.

By digging the tunnels deeper - the main network is now over 20m (65ft) down rather than around 10m (32ft) for the original tunnels - Hamas made them far more difficult to target and destroy.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hamas; hamastunnels; islam; terrorism; tunnel; tunnels
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To: Ancesthntr

Waste of good bacon grease.


81 posted on 12/09/2023 1:50:28 PM PST by Overtaxed (Stiff the Fed)
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To: bert
...plug with a “sponge bomb”...


82 posted on 12/09/2023 1:53:47 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: OKSooner
Anyway, one would wager that at least 90% of the tunnels are below sea level,

So far; very few who are posting about tunnel structure seem to realize this FACT!

83 posted on 12/09/2023 1:56:32 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: gibsonguy

The leftover seven million tons of chalk, rock, and debris that was dislodged to make the Chunnel was deposited to create Samphire Hoe Park, a 74-acre nature reserve in Southeast England.


84 posted on 12/09/2023 2:01:51 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: PIF

Why?

Seems like water is a LOT more stable than air.

Now if the tunnel walls are just dirt, then them turning into mud and collapsing would have a subsidence effect.


85 posted on 12/09/2023 2:03:30 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Migraine

locusts?

frogs?


86 posted on 12/09/2023 2:05:03 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: wildcard_redneck

amen!!


87 posted on 12/09/2023 2:05:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Graybeard58

Mix a LOT of sand into the water so when it is all said and done, the ground will be pretty much back to what it was before the first shovel was lifted.


88 posted on 12/09/2023 2:09:01 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Salt water dissolves limestone in which the tunnels are built, making the ground above unstable and prone to collapse.


89 posted on 12/09/2023 2:09:26 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

Like Mammoth Cave?


90 posted on 12/09/2023 2:10:46 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Graybeard58

No, I mean the really big one... 180,000 GPM...


91 posted on 12/09/2023 2:19:08 PM PST by OKSooner ("You won't like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: Elsie

I have no knowledge of the geology of Mammoth cave - not all limestone has the same properties. Moreover the cave is not exposed to salt water.


92 posted on 12/09/2023 2:30:06 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

FLOOD the tunnels, then fill them with SHARKS!


93 posted on 12/09/2023 2:53:17 PM PST by 2harddrive (https://rumble.com/vdptuf-best-election-fraud-video-ever-unmasked-have-we-uncovered-the-truth-about)
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To: Migraine

I vote for the fire ants someone suggested.


94 posted on 12/09/2023 3:21:45 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Levy78

Beats me/s


95 posted on 12/09/2023 4:20:08 PM PST by V V Camp Enari 67-68 ( This clears up a lot of misconception)
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To: Phinneous; golux; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; SJackson
Hamas's tunnels are bigger in scale than the Tube in London - what can Israel do?

Seems kind of dark in here.

Where's the ingenuity, the Ohr Mashiach? It's really the key to being able to see from

one end of the tunnel to the other:

I ran a search on עזה סוד but I didn't see anything come up re the Caesar cipher shift, so I'll mention it:

עזה, shifted down the alefbeit one letter and

ע ↙ ס
ז ↙ ו
ה ↙ ד

🤔

Certainly not the first time that's happened. By taking a hint, and going up:

ר ↖ ש
מ ↖ נ
ז ↖ ח

[רמז ↖ 358 [שנ"ח

(Shining Letters)

Remember the famous secret code?

How can it be a secret code if everyone knows the code?

"One [פנס] if by land..."

190[פ-נס] ↘ ['עם נ] Am-nun (160), the people of 50, the distinguished number of transcendence ↘ [סלם]:

The Seekers - This Little Light Of Mine

If one were to think of a perfect symbol of American Revolutionary War, perhaps short of the Declaration of Independence itself, if would probably be the Paul Revere’s lanterns. In an interesting twist, the “Official Paul Revere Lantern” currently displayed in the Old North Church is historic but not the original. It was created many year later for a commemorative ceremony that since then had been held annually in Boston on the day of the ride. To see the real lantern, one will have to take a trip to Concord like Revere himself and visit the Museum of Concord where one of the lanterns is now on display.

http://www.paul-revere-heritage.com/one-if-by-land-two-if-by-sea.html

On the day of the ride -- Patriots Day, Monday April 19, 2021:

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Succeeds in Historic First Flight

The 2021 race was the first in-person Boston Marathon not held in April; it was run on Monday, October 11, 2021.

Paul Revere Lantern

109. THE TZOHAR

When the world was first created, God filled the world with a sacred light, known as the primordial light. This was the light that came into being when God said , " Let there be light" (Gen. 1:3). It was not the light of the sun, for that did not come into being until the fourth day, when God created the sun and the moon and the stars. It was a miraculous light by which it was possible for Adam to see from one end of the world to the other.

When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit, the first thing they lost was that precious light. Without it, the world seemed dark to them, for the sun shone like a candle in com- parison. But God preserved one small part of that precious light inside a glowing stone, and the angel Raziel delivered this stone to Adam after they had been expelled from the Garden of Eden, as a token of the world they had left behind. This jewel, known as the Tzohar, sometimes glowed brightly and sometimes was dim...

109. THE TZOHAR

Sigh. Well, it's getting late so I'll also mention that the name "Ingenuity" [אינג'ניואיטי] = 160. The first 160-sum word in the Torah is "tree" [עץ] in 1.11. It's a tough crowd strolling by -- nobody laughs, and nobody cries -- but to spell out a tree is to wake the dead one way, or the other.

You all know the secret (famous): "wine - sod - 70"

ע י ן - צ ד י =

'יין - צד - ע

See? Happy hunting! 😉

1.11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, herb yielding seed, and fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth; and it was so [כן]:

🏃‍♀️. . . . . . .

96 posted on 12/09/2023 4:56:31 PM PST by Ezekiel (🆘️ "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with bi ♂️, aka every man)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Any hostages are dead or have been raped to death by now. Flood the damn tunnels. Do it now!


97 posted on 12/09/2023 6:20:03 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Flood them with phosgene, chlorine, or mustard gas…

Flood them with gasoline and light it…

Flood them with seawater and sharks…


98 posted on 12/09/2023 6:43:14 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: All

Bible, Israel, War from Nehemia and Lynell Gordon. They recount their stressful period in Israel and a harrowing, midnight run for the border!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKJ2pymH_g4


99 posted on 12/09/2023 7:29:42 PM PST by Texan4Life
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To: SamuraiScot

18. Using sea-water to flood the Hamas tunnel system would help solve any rising sea-water problems from melting icebergs, ice sheets and Greta Thunberg/Al Gore pissing into the rivers and oceans.


100 posted on 12/09/2023 7:51:45 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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