Posted on 12/17/2023 2:51:45 PM PST by Libloather
Israel has revealed what it says is the biggest tunnel its troops have ever discovered, as its army works to expose and destroy Hamas terrorists' sprawling underground city known as 'the Gaza Metro'.
Thought to stretch some 300 miles beneath the embattled enclave, Israeli soldiers have painstakingly sought to locate every entrance to every passageway in the 'spider's web' of tunnels and make them unusable.
The network was instrumental to Hamas in organising the October 7 atrocities, which saw its fighters storm across the Israeli border and murder 1,200 people, and has been used as a hiding place for terrorists and their weapons.
Israel's Defence Forces spokesperson has now given journalists a tour of the extensive tunnel, which spokesperson Daniel Hagari said is wide enough to fit a car through and spans well over 2.5 miles (4km).
He said the tunnel had been built in order to carry out a terror attack, with its end just 400 metres (1,310ft) before the Erez Crossing - the barrier Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups smashed through to launch their bloody attack on Israel more than 70 days ago.
Hagari told reporters that this tunnel system alone cost 'millions of dollars', adding that it had been a project led by Mohammad Sinwar, the brother and right-hand man of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, and commander of Hamas' Khan Younis Battalion.
'We are going to enter the biggest tunnel we have found in Gaza, the biggest secret of [Mohammad] Sinwar, his subterranean tunnel project,' the commanding officer said as he led a triumphant tour of the underground lair.
The IDF has vowed to hunt down and kill Sinwar, who they say is hiding 'deep underground'.
IDF spokesperson Avijaa Adraei explained how the giant tunnel was unearthed.
'Attack operations were launched from the aforementioned tunnel targeting...
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I’m not prepared to give Stringbean that level of capability of thought.
Being filled now - could take weeks to fill completely. Sharks would have to go through the pumps.
Wasn’t built to shelter Gaza’s citizens, was it?
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Right because all Gaza citizens are Hamas or Hamas supporters. There are no “innocent civilians.”
Yep, a whole lot of dirt went somewhere.
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Limestone used to build buildings on the surface
I don’t believe the labor put into those tunnels was done by management or those running the show. Do you?
The labor put into building anything in America is not done by management or by those “running the show”.
Did Donald Trump build Trump Tower? Of course not, if by that is meant “did Donald Trump do any of the construction labor?”
Regarding the Hamas tunnels: clearly, the “people in charge” aren’t idiots, and the laborers clearly aren’t incompetent.
Don’t underestimate your enemy.
Remember: Japanese fighter pilots in 1942 weren’t a bunch of squint-eyed fools who couldn’t fly their way out of a paper bag. On the contrary, they were at least as well trained as American fighter pilots in 1942, and much more experienced.
“Evil” is not synonymous with “stupid” or “incompetent”.
That may be, but from the video I saw, the carts/trucks were hauling ground up limestone from the huge drills. But just some water and quick lime, and bricks and blocks are easy to make. And Gaza is mostly flat.
Though much larger, most of the west bank has rockier desert terrain. Tunnel digging is likely tougher.
I never at any time liked him or his songs.
When he was starting out he was walking down an aisle in a restaurant not noticing he was walking past Bob Dylan. He said to Springsteen: “They tell me you’re the new me. You’d better start being you. I’m already me.”
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