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First images 'show Israel preparing to flood Hamas tunnels with sea water as troops set up pipes and pumps in Gaza'........
Daily Mail ^ | 12/6/2023 | Rachel Bunyan

Posted on 12/06/2023 6:51:42 AM PST by caww

Israel is said to have completed installing at least five pumps about a mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic metres of water per hour - meaning they could flood the 300-mile network of tunnels within weeks.

Their plan would be to drive out the terrorists from the tunnels and make them inoperable by flooding the system with seawater from the Mediterranean Sea.

And now, images released by the IDF appear to show scores of Israeli soldiers setting up a series of black pipes on the sandy beaches of Gaza. Video shared by Israeli media also appears to show IDF soldiers working on the pipes while underground.

It emerged on Monday that Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas's vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with sea water, according to US officials.

Whilst a mission aimed at flooding the tunnels underneath Gaza with sea water could wipe out the terrorists hiding there, it would also put the lives of the 138 hostages held captive by Hamas at risk.

But it's not clear if Israel would even consider using the pumps before all the hostages are released.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Gaza; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: flood; gaza; hamas; hamastunnels; idf; israel; seawater; tunnels
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To: caww

The IDF is giving the Palestinians warning to vacate the tunnels. If they leave the hostages to die is that the fault of IDF or Hamas???


21 posted on 12/06/2023 7:15:56 AM PST by elpadre
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To: catnipman

the threat of flooding alone has strategic value even if it is not done. Setting up pipes makes the threat more credible


22 posted on 12/06/2023 7:16:11 AM PST by ChronicMA (would label it)
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To: caww

Bkmk


23 posted on 12/06/2023 7:16:33 AM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Owen

The tunnels are full of boobie traps, and flooding them. Ay safely detonate the traps rather than risk lives by sending in soldiers.


24 posted on 12/06/2023 7:17:39 AM PST by Bob434
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To: caww

As someone who performs a lot of dewatering activities, this will take enormous high Head pumps, fuel, and large amount of hose.


25 posted on 12/06/2023 7:18:10 AM PST by shotgun
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To: caww

They shouldn’t have announced it, slammed hamas sending them retreating into the tunnels, then flooding them, and guarding the exits so none could escape without being captured.


26 posted on 12/06/2023 7:19:00 AM PST by Bob434
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To: caww

When I was a kid ( in the 60s) we’ed flood gopher holes and shoot them when they would pop out. They would run to another hole if we missed (often), we would put a rock over the first hole, and start flooding the 2nd hole.
Farmers paid a bounty.
Good times.


27 posted on 12/06/2023 7:19:34 AM PST by CapandBall
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To: caww

The mental image of drowning Hamas rats comforts me greatly.


28 posted on 12/06/2023 7:20:36 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: logi_cal869

“They should be using raw sewage.”

From a pig farm.


29 posted on 12/06/2023 7:20:40 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: 1Old Pro

The ceasefire ended because HAMAS ran out of woman and children to hand over... Meaning any woman and children that they didn’t hand over, likely aren’t alive anymore.

Any male prisoners were likely killed within hours of being captured.

The tales from those released so far are of being tortured and badly mistreated, so if any remaining hostages do die during this flooding operation it will likely be a godsend.


30 posted on 12/06/2023 7:21:12 AM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: 1Old Pro

In order to even consider not flooding the tunnels, Israel should demand irrefutable PROOF that there are hostages still alive.


31 posted on 12/06/2023 7:22:38 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MayflowerMadam

Volume


32 posted on 12/06/2023 7:24:18 AM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Owen

There should be no Palestinian Authority. Terror from groups like Hamas and the Palestinians who support them or remain silent on their plans will never stop committing atrocities like this. End them.


33 posted on 12/06/2023 7:24:44 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: MayflowerMadam

“What ever happened to TNT, dynomite, re-directed sewer, sarin gas?”

Well, they’re pumping it out of the Med, it might be close to sewer water, at least.


34 posted on 12/06/2023 7:31:52 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: faithhopecharity

PUMPS MUST be HIGH capacity & MUST be able to have salt water put thru them.

MOST regular pumps are NOT designed to handle the corrosive effects of salt water.


35 posted on 12/06/2023 7:33:31 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: fella

VERY GOOD PLAN !!!!!!!


36 posted on 12/06/2023 7:34:14 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Owen
These people are preached to and training starts while they ate still in the womb to hate Jews with utmost hate and scorn.

very moment of their life and their very life is dedicated to destruction of the Jew.

Giving them a source of constant revenue will place that hatred on steroids, with more finances to carry out even more evil plots.

Remember, the Jew is the small Satan.

We are the great Satan, and given opportunity, they would love to show us some of that same love, if only they had the resources to do so.

Giving them a steady stream of finances is not such a good idea.

Doing stuff to make them fear saying great Satan above a whisper for a 1000 years would be a much more effective approach to end this bullshit.

37 posted on 12/06/2023 7:38:07 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: going hot

Hamas and the PLO have turned the whole Gaza Strip into a reverse mental hospital that’s designed to take already mentally challenged, inbred children and turn them into mass murdering anti-semetic psychotics. There is little that can be done with such individuals.


38 posted on 12/06/2023 7:49:39 AM PST by libstripper
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To: caww

Too bad they can’t add a Florescent Pink Dye


39 posted on 12/06/2023 7:50:13 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: MayflowerMadam

“..What ever happened to TNT, dynomite, re-directed sewer, sarin gas?..”

when you think about it... it’s actually a good idea.

if you want to know where all the entrances are...look for water pouring out of a house/building...


40 posted on 12/06/2023 7:58:16 AM PST by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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