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Report: Israel begins flooding Hamas tunnels with seawater
Israel National News ^ | 12/12/2023 | INN Staff

Posted on 12/12/2023 4:06:18 PM PST by Uncle Miltie

New report says Israel has conducted initial tests and begun to fill Hamas's underground tunnels with water from the Mediterranean Sea.

The Israeli military has begun pumping water from the Mediterranean Sea into Hamas' tunnel network, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, quoting US officials familiar with the operations.

The move, still in its early stages, is one of several techniques Israel is using in its operation to eliminate the Hamas terror group.

A spokesperson for Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Likud) declined to comment to WSJ, telling the news outlet that "tunnel operations are classified."

The Wall Street Journal report quoted the US officials as saying that Israel has installed seven industrial pumps, and began the process around when it added the last two pumps to the initial five and conducted initial testing.

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US officials have expressed doubts about the effectiveness or feasibility of flooding a complex estimated to include hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, and have pointed out that doing so could damage Gaza's agriculture and freshwater supply. Israel is reportedly still examining whether or not flooding the tunnels is a realistic strategy, although Israeli officials have thus far declined to comment on the operation.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: hamas; hamastunnels; israel; mediterraneansea; seawater; tunnels
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To: Uncle Miltie
With rising sea levels due to climate change, it is necessary to sequester excess sea water underground.

Kinda like capturing CO2 and sequestering it by pumping it into rock formations to prevent rising CO2 levels.

21 posted on 12/12/2023 4:27:27 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt ( )
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To: Uncle Miltie; All

This has been “breaking news” for weeks. Nothing has happened except the usual dialogue and sensationalism. Lemme know when we have video footage of the bad guys come slithering out of the caves.


22 posted on 12/12/2023 4:27:32 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Long Jon No Silver
The U.S telling Israel what to do and not do is tiresome.

I remember when Condi Rice tried to run the war between Israel and Hezbollah and made bigger mess during the GWB era.

This is a tiresome cycle that has been going on for decades.
Until Israel eliminates Hamas and Hezbollah or Iran blows Israel off the map, this tit-for-tat is going to continue.

23 posted on 12/12/2023 4:27:47 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Uncle Miltie

Good. Throw in a live electrical chord so they can turn on the lights.


24 posted on 12/12/2023 4:28:28 PM PST by Singermom
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To: TomGuy
How soon before the UN starts crying and complaining about Israel is draining too much of the Mediterranean and causing erosion on the coastal lands?

It's a two-for-one deal. Israel can tell the UN they're alleviating rising sea levels.

25 posted on 12/12/2023 4:28:54 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Cuttnhorse

Someone is fun of BS, either the author of this article or the unknown official quoted. The Egyptians have flooded HAMAS tunnels with sea water and raw sewage in the past, is worked and Gaza has not slipped into the Ocean. we should send Austin to train and advise HAMAS, the war would have ended weeks ago.


26 posted on 12/12/2023 4:28:58 PM PST by OldGoatCPO (No Caitiff Choir of Angels will sing for me. )
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To: Uncle Miltie

To be fair, the Israelis sent a flotilla of rubber ducks for the terrorists before sending in the water.

And troubles went down the drain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR4TP9DV1Xg


27 posted on 12/12/2023 4:34:18 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Uncle Miltie

“US officials have expressed doubts about the effectiveness or feasibility of flooding a complex estimated to include hundreds of kilometers of tunnels . . .”

It doesn’t have to work 100 percent. Just knowing the pumps are in place will unnerve the terrorists; give them one more thing to think about. One more reason to move above ground and surrender.

The prospect of drowning underground will distract almost anyone from their mission. The terrorists already know the Israeli Army does not like them and are not playing around anymore.


28 posted on 12/12/2023 4:34:32 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: plain talk

LOL

That’s all she wrote.


29 posted on 12/12/2023 4:34:57 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: dennisw

“Come out, surrender to IDF with a hostage, and you get a shorter prison sentence.”

I prefer “and we kill you quickly.”

L


30 posted on 12/12/2023 4:49:08 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
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To: Uncle Miltie

Good....ruin everything that you can , and kill as many muslims that you can.


31 posted on 12/12/2023 5:02:45 PM PST by mythenjoseph (Islam has NO place in a Christian society.)
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To: Uncle Miltie
After a while, throw in a few of these.


32 posted on 12/12/2023 5:06:31 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Uncle Miltie

This sounds very promising
Hopefully it will drown all the Fakestinian devils


33 posted on 12/12/2023 5:07:44 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: HKMk23

“The scope of SoCal’s water problems:”

It’s NOT a “water problem” in California, it’s a POLITICAL CHOICE that they’ve made to destroy their state.


34 posted on 12/12/2023 5:08:05 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Uncle Miltie

The hostages are already dead. Flood the tunnels.


35 posted on 12/12/2023 5:08:49 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: Long Jon No Silver

I remember that


36 posted on 12/12/2023 5:10:38 PM PST by Dominic01 (Political correctness has become a psychosis)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Looks like the terrorists will be have to grow a set of gills


37 posted on 12/12/2023 5:17:20 PM PST by chuckee
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To: Uncle Miltie

It would only take a foot or two to make a tunnel unusable.

No wall of water... just a slow steady rise and soon everyone will just have to get out.


38 posted on 12/12/2023 5:25:49 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Uncle Miltie

i frankly can’t know how well this will work but it sure looks promising....(It works just FINE on rodents on our land!)

drown all the dam*ed Fakestinian terrorists!!! ASAP!

smiles smiles


39 posted on 12/12/2023 5:28:01 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Uncle Miltie

Poor strategy. More expensive but more cost effective would be natural gas.


40 posted on 12/12/2023 5:33:06 PM PST by PAR35
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