Posted on 08/03/2014 5:37:04 AM PDT by SJackson
Fighting between the IDF and Hamas in Gaza and along the Gaza Strip border is also affecting Israel’s northern front, with regional council heads and residents in communities expressing fear that Lebanon based terror group Hezbollah is copying a Hamas tactic and digging terror tunnels in the North.
According to Israeli news website Walla!, Kiryat Shmona Mayor Nissim Malka sent a letter on Wednesday to Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon asking him to examine the issue as soon as the violence in the south subsides.
Malka wrote that residents “have complained of hearing noises coming from under the ground. I have heard these complaints several times, but yesterday, when I came back from a tour of the Gaza border communities, I understood.”
Malka wrote that “if this is what they did in the South, I am certain [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah is not sitting idly and giving out candy.”
It must be noted, as defense officials indeed have, that the situation on Israel’s southern Gaza border is significantly different from its northern border with Hezbollah.
The ground in the Gaza Strip and around it is a type of sandy earth that can be dug through with relative ease, and the security zone beyond the border fence is narrow. The earth in Israel’s north is much rockier and harder to break through, and the demilitarized border zone is much deeper. Nevertheless, Hezbollah operatives sometimes come right up to the fence, as they did in a 2006 attack to capture two IDF soldiers which was Israel’s casus belli for launching the Second Lebanon War.
What is similar to the situation in Gaza is the proximity of some communities to the border fence: some of the smaller communities are only a few dozen meters away from the border.
Head of the Mevo’ot Hermon Regional Council Benny Ben Muvhar echoed Malka. “There is fear of terror tunnels being dug from Lebanon into Israel. Many residents in communities near the fence claim they hear digging sounds right under their feet in their bedrooms.”
Ben Muvhar emphasized that residents have not been psychologically affected by the talk of tunnels in the current war since they started complaining of hearing sounds as long as three years ago. “I think that after the IDF completes its mission in the South its next goal should be to come here and ascertain whether the fear voiced by the residents is justified.”
The IDF found the opening of a tunnel and weapons caches during the 2006 war, just several hundred meters from one of the communities. However it was not a tunnel leading into Israel and the military has of yet not found a single terror tunnel leading from Lebanon into Israel’s territory.
Nitrogen. Fuel air needs a good mix and can be smelled. Flood it with nitrogen faster than they can purge it and they all die in the tunnels. Retrieve the bodies and give them to Mossad for identification and intelligence gatherings.
Because they’re Jews and inbred islamists aren’t.
Yes.
It makes me wonder why would Hamas and Hezborah even dare try to attack Israel KNOWING how strong the IDF is?
Nancy Pelosi will probably defend Hamas says the tunnels are for peaceful reasons. Probably Hamas just wants to recreate the caves of France; and paint artwork on the walls. Yeah that’s the ticket!
Have to be a little careful about detonating concrete lined tamped underground structures.
The tactic is the original mine warfare from WWI.
CF: George Gilder, “The Israel Test”.
One possibility explained in great detail:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzabmVIU6EQ
The orcs are trying to get in.
Doesn’t Israel ever need to do some underground nuclear testing, like we did in Nevada? How about a few tests along the border?
“It is prejudice, which is another word for wilful ignorance.”
Prejudice? Talk about “willful ignorance”
I’m not forming an opinion before becoming aware of the relevant facts.
I’m quite aware of the facts that I know
to be true through my own experiences and what I’ve read.
All I ask is why most of the world hates them to the point
of genocide and if your the typical example then I kinda
see why.
Thanks I’ll check it out.
“He dug it out but he’s an efficient hunter.”
Wish mine was that way. He’d dig them out, no stalking, just
go after them. He’d go after Armadillos too. He died about
15 years ago. He was a good dog.
...expressing fear that Lebanon based terror group Hezbollah is copying a Hamas tactic and digging terror tunnels in the North.Bunker busters in those missile storage tunnels would be a great way to start. Let the French know now that they'd better haul their asses out of the way.
...Ben Muvhar emphasized that residents have not been psychologically affected by the talk of tunnels in the current war since they started complaining of hearing sounds as long as three years ago.
Your use of “them and “they” - painting ALL members of the Jewish faith with the same negative broad brush - shows prejudice, or at the least a lack of concern about the effects of your words. Had you distinguished that SOME Jews that YOU, personally, had experience with were not of the most sterling moral character, then I would never have bothered to comment on your post.
Media reply: "Tunnels? What tunnels?"
Couldn’t they train dogs or some other animals to sense tunnels being cut under the border?
"We moved our base camp last night and we’re now positioned literally
within feet of the river. Have been sitting here watching the border
patrol patrolling in their riverboats all night and all morning..."~Jim Robinson
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I would think the technology could detect the tunnels, though destroying them on an ongoing basis would be a diplomatic problem. Maybe Israel does. I’m not the only one who has expressed surprise that Israel wasn’t more aware of the tunnels. And that Israel seemed to have no inkling of the planned Yom Kippur attack through the tunnels. Just a few weeks off. Perhaps through sheer luck Israel decided July’s rocket attacks coupled with the kidnapping were the trigger sending them into Gaza. Not impossible Israel knew, and was awaiting the right time. If the latter, Hizbollah may have an upcoming problem. And with southern and northern threats degraded, perhaps Iran.
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