Posted on 04/12/2016 7:28:28 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
According to Arab reports five diggers were killed on Sunday in a tunnel collapse at the city of Rafiah, located in southern Gaza on the border with the Sinai Peninsula.
The deaths were reported by Palestinian media cited by Walla, and mark the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months. " /img> The last collapse, which came in mid-March, saw a Hamas "field commander" die during work on a terror tunnel, two days after the bodies of two Arab workers were found in a tunnel on the southern Gazan border that was flooded by Egypt three days earlier.
With the five deaths on Sunday, it would appear that the death toll from terror and smuggling tunnel collapses since January 26 has risen to 20 according to an unofficial Arutz Sheva count. Most of the dead are terrorists of Hamas' "armed wing," the Al-Qassam Brigades.
For many long months Egypt has been establishing a buffer zone inside Gaza along the Sinai border, which has involved flooding the tunnels and destroying the infrastructure that helped Hamas smuggle weapons and goods.
Hamas has been busily reconstructing its terror tunnel network breaching into Israeli territory, and after the last collapse some media reports speculated that a secret Israeli weapon and not heavy rains was responsible for the cave-ins.
Back in February the IDF warned that Hamas appears to be focusing its efforts on one central tunnel breaching deep into sovereign Israel to facilitate attacks on civilians. Reportedly 1,000 Hamas terrorists are working on the major tunnel.
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Well, I think I’ll head to bed now and end the day on a high note.
Ha!
<< five diggers were killed >>
Bummer.
Q. What do you call 5 dead Palis in a Gaza tunnel collapse?
A. A good start.
Saved ‘em burial expenses.
Rachel Corrie memorial tunnel.
I always like a happy ending :-)
IDF should round up a huge box of hungry vipers and release them at one end of the tunnel.
Call it OPERATION PLAGUE or something.
Matter of fact, we should do that on the Mexican drug tunnels... hmm...
Instant graves.
That’s scarier than the Mexican tunnels.
the eleventh tunnel cave-in in recent months.
If a tunnel collapses on Palestinian terrorists (Al Fatah, Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade or Hamas), does any decent person give a good crap?
How sad . Those jolly industrious tunnelers were just digging to irrigate their tomatoes.
These people are pathetic. They are generally stupid and feckless, although occasionally by an off chance, they manage to create some havoc. Even in war, they claim victimhood - the Israeli’s supposedly have some “secret weapon” to detect and destroy their tunnels.
a few more dead sand diggers.
Good one!
Don’t care. Fuqum
“a few more dead sand diggers.”
Nice! Post of the decade
“...the Israelis supposedly have some secret weapon to detect and destroy their tunnels.”
But they do, Achmed, they do! Those evil Jews have the best antitunnel technology in the world simply because you jihadi murderers have declared Jewish women and children to be “reservists & therefore legitimate targets”.
So think about that as you choke & suffocate in watery darkness.
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