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| IDF official: Gaza tunnel-stopper only months from completion |
| 2016-09-26 |
The Southern Command official says the structure will include a wall deep below the ground as well as flooding parts of the roughly 60-kilometer (40-mile) border. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing regulations, says the goal is to turn Hamas’s underground network into a “death trap.” During the 2014 war, Hamas fighters managed on several occasions to make their way into Israel through a tunnel network. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #8 Seems like a line of heavy airborne cratering ordinance would bring down tunnels easier than flooding and wall building.  |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-09-26 16:21 |
| #7 I'm not familiar with the geology of the area, but sand or loose material would liquify with the addition of water under high pressure. I think most of what we have heard to date about the anti-tunnel system is mis-information. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-09-26 10:29 |
| #6 Good visual, Frank. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-09-26 09:15 |
| #5 I'll ululate and hand out candieswhen the Gazoo Terror Moles start floating dead outta the entrances |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-09-26 09:05 |
| #4 Frac 'em! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-09-26 08:49 |
| #3 its really hard to do work underground rapidly 'in a matter of months' may be, say, 20 months |
| Posted by: lord garth 2016-09-26 08:27 |
| #2 Start the pumps. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-09-26 08:19 |
| #1 High pressure injection of water near tunnels would indeed make them a death trap. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2016-09-26 06:45 |