Posted on 08/04/2024 8:18:30 AM PDT by dennisw
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Sunday that soldiers had uncovered a massive smuggling tunnel underneath the border between Gaza and Egypt in the area of Rafah — where the U.S. had cautioned Israel not to go. _____________
In a statement, the IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet, or Shabak) said:
Recently, IDF troops have been working to locate and destroy underground tunnel routes in the Philadelphi area, and so far, the troops have located and destroyed dozens of routes.
At the beginning of last week, in one of the operations to locate underground tunnel routes in the Philadelphi area, a three meter high tunnel was uncovered on the Philadelphi Corridor.
At this stage, the troops are continuing with the investigation and neutralization of the underground tunnel route, as well as other large-scale routes that were found.
The IDF will thoroughly destroy all the underground infrastructure on the Philadelphi Corridor and will act with determination to prevent their formation in the future. __________
Prior to May, the Biden administration had warned Israel not to enter Rafah, even withholding weapons to pressure Israel to stay out of the area. Israel decided to enter Rafah anyway due to its strategic importance to the war against Hamas.
IDF control of the Philadelphi Corridor, which is a road along the border, has been at stake in recent negotiations with Hamas over a hostage-ceasefire deal. Hamas and the U.S. want Israel to cede control of the corridor, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been reluctant to give it up.
Control of the corridor allows the IDF to choke Hamas’s weapons supply; Israel does not trust Egyptian or U.S. guarantees to monitor the border effectively.
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There have been numerous reports and a few videos on smuggling from Egypt into Gaza. The locals in Gaza were proud of the smuggling, saying they made lots of money smuggling refrigerators, car parts, couches, engines, you name it, they could get it for the residents of Gaza. This stuff can't come in via tiny human sized tunnels.
Concrete !!!
Why would Egypt be any less corrupt than, say, Ukraine, or Mexico, or the United States?
Its an illusion to think any nation has any real friends in any region.
Anyone who thinks this is the only tunnel is a fool.
That too.
Then top it with a cement side walk.
Think about how many weapons & explosives are hiding in mosques across the west.
On Twitter I have seen IDF videos of them placing loads of explosives in the middle of a Hamas tunnel. When set off there were 5 secondary eruptions in other parts of the tunnel that pushed debris and smoke into the sky. I will look for it.
This is the video -— https://x.com/SouleFacts/status/1717889632334221636
Though now that I think about it. Perhaps the IDF placed explosives at 5 different points of this long Hamas tunnel
Egypt exposed.
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