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Israel Discovers Never-Before-Seen Weapons in Gaza
Newsweek ^ | Nov. 8, 2023 | Nick Mordowanec

Posted on 11/09/2023 2:09:24 AM PST by canuck_conservative

The IDF reportedly discovered "means of warfare unknown to the security system," including new rockets found by IDF engineering forces in Gaza laboratories...

It was also revealed that during a recent raid on a Hamas training post, tunnels were reportedly discovered beneath the post. After exposing them, soldiers destroyed the shafts—which they believe had housed countless Hamas militants who prepared for extended stays underground based on extra water and oxygen supplies found there.

They tend to stay underground because they lack the means to fight in surface combat...

On Wednesday, the Channel TV news network in Israel reported that the IDF has mobilized its entire engineering corps, including reserves, for the war taking place in Gaza. Forces have reportedly destroyed 130 tunnel shafts so far and intend to target more in the coming days, with some fighters potentially going into the tunnels if necessary...

Hamas reportedly operates more than 300 miles of tunnels in the blockaded territory that it has constructed over the period of decades, according to CNBC. Many are more than 100 feet underground...

"They have communication rooms, ammunition warehouses, places to stay and everything in order to be used as a base of terrorism to harm the citizens of the State of Israel and the soldiers of the IDF...

One anonymous IDF fighter told the network that "as bad as Gaza is above ground, underground is much worse."...

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gaza; hamas; idf; israel; tunnels
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Sounds like most of this conflict will be underground, away from the cameras

and long overdue!!

1 posted on 11/09/2023 2:09:24 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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If there were any access tunnels near a large river, it would be wonderful to bulldoze, carve a canal from the river to the access tunnel. If there are escape tunnels out of the underground complexes, the water would eventually exit that way. If not......oh well.


2 posted on 11/09/2023 2:17:29 AM PST by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: canuck_conservative

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3 posted on 11/09/2023 2:19:19 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: canuck_conservative

4 posted on 11/09/2023 2:19:48 AM PST by fruser1
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To: fruser1

what is that?


5 posted on 11/09/2023 2:22:42 AM PST by canuck_conservative (there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
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To: canuck_conservative

On the left is a gun from Men in Black. Will Smith used that gun.


6 posted on 11/09/2023 2:30:35 AM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: canuck_conservative

I don’t understand how they know which tunnels the hostages are being kept in so they aren’t killing them, but maybe they’re getting prisoners to talk.


7 posted on 11/09/2023 2:31:37 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: canuck_conservative

From Men In Black.


8 posted on 11/09/2023 2:32:19 AM PST by fruser1
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To: canuck_conservative

cowards with guns killing civilians


9 posted on 11/09/2023 2:35:58 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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...access tunnels near a large river...

They have a whole Ocean nearby. Before I plugged any tunnels I'd toss in wasp nests and whatever wasps like to eat.

10 posted on 11/09/2023 2:40:19 AM PST by Nateman (If Mohammad was not the Anti Christ Mad Moe definitely comes in as a Strong second.)
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To: fruser1

You bought a reverberating carbonizer?

From Geebs?


11 posted on 11/09/2023 2:43:06 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: ad ferre non, velit esse sine defensione)
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Stay underground?

According to my former neighbor who was in the 1st armored wave in Gulf war I, they bulldoze buried them all alive instead of going underground and fighting. Didn’t even fire a shot of throw in explosives. All dead, roll past the new grave on the make the next one.


12 posted on 11/09/2023 2:45:20 AM PST by USCG SimTech
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To: Ronaldus Magnus III

“Flood the tunnels”

I suppose that power lines could also be dropped into the water every once in a while, because water conducts electricity pretty well.


13 posted on 11/09/2023 2:49:52 AM PST by BeauBo
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To: canuck_conservative

Seems to me that robotic/drone vehicles should lead the way at exploring the tunnel shafts.


14 posted on 11/09/2023 2:53:10 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

I remember playing Descent!


15 posted on 11/09/2023 3:05:05 AM PST by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: BeauBo

Pure water is a bad conductor. But salt water? Oh yeah!


16 posted on 11/09/2023 3:12:16 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: nuconvert

” hostages are being kept”

There are no hostages.


17 posted on 11/09/2023 3:14:01 AM PST by 1of10 (be vigilant , be strong, be safe, be 1 of 10 .)
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That’s a possibility. But hostages equate to $$$ and bargaining chips, so I tend to think there must be some, maybe not the 200+ they keep mentioning.


18 posted on 11/09/2023 3:27:53 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: BeauBo

Heard tell the IDF has a substance they pump in that expands to fill the volume available, upon which it becomes hard as rock, presumably as part of a final process of curing, maybe activated by water? Perfectly suited for rendering a tunnel inaccessible and unusable.


19 posted on 11/09/2023 3:28:10 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: 1of10

Really?


20 posted on 11/09/2023 3:28:51 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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