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| Israeli military bulldozers cross into Gaza |
| 2010-03-28 |
| Several Israeli armoured vehicles including bulldozers entered Gaza on Sunday apparently to destroy tunnels near the site of deadly weekend clashes, according to witnesses. The forces moved around 500 metres (yards) inside Gaza, dug large trenches and fired warning shots to keep farmers away, they said. There were no reports of anyone wounded or killed. An Israeli military spokesman said forces operating "near the fence" discovered a dead body and an explosive device which was later blown up in a controlled manner, without providing further details. Sunday's incursion in the southern Khan Yunis area was near the site where Israeli tanks, bulldozers and jeeps backed by helicopters late Friday conducted an operation in which a Palestinian militant was killed, seven people were wounded and two houses damaged. That operation was launched after a firefight in which two Israeli soldiers were killed and two others wounded, one of them seriously. The weekend fighting was the heaviest since the 22-day Gaza war ended in January 2009. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 My thoughts too, Besoeker. Petersburg, Va. it was. I lived right out side of there in the 1990's. Union miners dug a big mine and blew it up under the Confederates. As I remember from the tour of the battleground, something went amiss and after the explosion the Union troops were confused and more of them got killed than the Southern army troops. Believe it or not, the crater still exist today, that's how big the explosion was back 1864. And if memory serves, the battle for Petersburg was the last big battle before Lee surrendered at Appomattox a few weeks later. |
| Posted by: Mr. Bill 2010-03-28 19:43 |
| #5 So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock. Sounds a lot like the GBU 28. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2010-03-28 17:18 |
| #4 Then there was the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg in June of '64 where......oh never mind. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-03-28 17:00 |
| #3 Tunnel digging isn't easy, and depends on solid ground. So it seems to me that the Israelis should invent a portable, high speed, tube drilling auger, that would quickly bore a hole in the ground 100' deep. Then insert a device like a Bangalore torpedo into the hole, whose purpose is to shatter rock. Creating a pattern of such bore holes would take a few hours, but when all the charges were popped, tunneling over a 100-200' distance would be like trying to tunnel through sand. Any existing tunnels in the area would be collapsed. Surface damage would be minimal. Something like this was done in WWI by the British and the Germans, who would dig long tunnels, then fill up caverns with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, creating immense explosions underneath their enemy. The British didn't care for that, so invented "counter-mining" against the German tunnels. "A notable example was the Battle of Messines, when 450 tonnes of high explosive were placed in 21 mines after about two years of sapping. Approximately 10,000 German troops were killed when 19 of the mines were simultaneously detonated. One of the explosive caches exploded years later. The 21st cache was never found and there are still several tonnes of high explosive buried somewhere in the Belgian countryside." But the task for the Israelis would be somewhat simpler, in that the Egyptian-Gaza border is only about 8 miles long. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-03-28 16:30 |
| #2 The Rachael Corrie Dozer Brigade. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-03-28 15:42 |
| #1 "stop when you get to Egypt" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-03-28 14:33 |