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IDF Discovers Massive Smuggling Tunnel Under Gaza-Egypt Border

2024-08-04

[Breitbart] 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.

Bcause clearly Egypt isn’t trustworthy and Biden’s America has not monitored effectively, regardless of what it may have seen.
The Times of Israel adds this tidbit:

Dozens of tunnels have been found along the Philadelphi corridor, including at least 25 that crossed into Egypt.

Posted by:Skidmark

#10 It would be so unfortunate if some propane and maybe oxygen tanks were stored in those tunnels and accidentally left open…

Posted by: Glenmore 2024-08-04 19:24

#9 A saltwater wetlands wildlife refuge

Posted by: Frank G 2024-08-04 19:07

#8 A Bay of Gaza would work as well.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-08-04 17:11

#7 Personally, I liked Ariel Sharon's idea of a canal between Israel and Gaza. It may not have been practical, but it would have ensured that there were no tunnels from Gaza into Israel.

Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2024-08-04 16:37

#6 By Allah, when push comes to shove
At the Border of Brotherly Love
There will always be peace,
Pairs of corpulent police,
And a wall between Arabs. [frees dove]

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-08-04 14:41

#5 Some things never change, especially national character it seems. It seems our Israeli cousins have once again uncovered the insights of Kipling and the Empire 150 years ago.

"Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown,
For the Christian riles, and the Aryan smiles, and he weareth the Christian down;
And the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear: "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

Rudyard Kipling

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-08-04 14:31

#4 ^Lips moving?

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-04 14:27

#3 Media a while back reported Egyot was actively finding and destroying cross-border tunnels to a kilometer or more from the Gaza border. I know, because I posted the articles from Al Ahram.

Posted by: trailing wife 2024-08-04 14:19

#2 Media a while back reported that the wall Egypt erected on the border was designed to make such a tunnel impossible.

Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-08-04 13:12

#1 El Sisi the pro-Western.

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-08-04 12:53

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