[Ynet] Analysis: Following the recent tunnel demolition, part of Gazoo’s military leadership feels it would be illogical to keep investing huge sums in the tunnels now that Israel has effective ways of dealing with them, not mention the underground barrier being built along the border.
Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot’s main work directive to the IDF for 2018, the last year of his term, is to destroy all border-crossing tunnels‐both those Israel is aware of and those it isn’t aware of yet‐which have been dug or are being dug from the Gazoo Strip into Israel.
Eisenkot was able to issue such an order due to the fact that three years after Operation Protective Edge, the army has obtained the technology and the means to allow an effective detection and destruction of tunnels in general and of border-crossing tunnels in particular. |