Israel is considering using seawater to flood the extensive network of tunnels under Gaza, used by Hamas militants to smuggle goods in and out of the Palestinian enclave, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing sources.
According to US officials interviewed by the paper, the Israeli military assembled an extensive flooding system not far from Al-Shati refugee camp in northwest Gaza in mid-November. The unit reportedly consists of five pumps capable of drawing thousands of cubic meters of water per hour from the Mediterranean Sea, potentially allowing Israel to flood the underground maze within a few weeks.
The Israeli government informed the US, its key ally, of the initiative last month, sparking debate about whether the plan was feasible, as well as its pros and cons, WSJ sources said. They noted that no final decision on its execution has yet been made and that it is unclear how ready Israel is to implement it.
The plan, the report says, could drive Hamas fighters out of the sprawling system of tunnels, which span hundreds of kilometers, with some passages reaching into Egypt.
The network also provides Hamas and other local Islamist groups with formidable cover from missile strikes and allows them to evade Israel’s blockade. Some tunnels are tall enough for an average man to stand up in, are built from reinforced concrete, and boast a network of communication lines.
However, some US officials are said to have serious doubts about the plan. “We are not sure how successful pumping will be, since nobody knows the details of the tunnels and the ground around them,” one source said.
Meanwhile, Jon Alterman, a senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, warned in a WSJ interview that it was hard to estimate how much seawater would seep into the ground or what impact the pumping would have on water and sewage infrastructure.
This sentiment was echoed by Wim Zwijnenburg, an environmental expert, who noted that the flooding could wash hazardous materials out of the tunnels, further contaminating the soil. He also recalled that Gaza’s aquifer has been getting saltier recently due to rising sea levels.
The current hostilities between Israel and Hamas were sparked in early October and have resulted in thousands of dead on both sides, while Hamas took more than two hundred hostages, many of whom have since been released. The fighting has also exacerbated the ever-present water crisis in Gaza. According to the UN, Palestinians receive no more than three liters per day, compared to the healthy minimum of 15 liters.
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No one could have seen this coming.
Just like those sneaky Japs who built all those tunnels underneath several S. Pacific islands we supposedly liberated from them, yet never used when we attacked.
And here’s the most paranoid (with reason, some would say) nation on Earth, who has all the latest state-of-the-art equipment, who never had any clue those vile Hamas bastards were digging the whole time. (Maybe it’s because it’s Israel who was doing it?)
I could keep going, but the energy required to do so would be wasted.
Will you be posting another of your adventures, Cpt?
Can’t smoke them out? Cave them in? Cement the openings?
flood them with nitrogen.
Yes.
Gas them in the tunnel chambers.
And then set the tunnels afire to cremate them.
The history books will never tell.
[Sarctire]
run a hose from their exhaust? gas them behind wooden doors? poison their wells?
Too similar to Zyklon B.
Prussian blue,
Will tell the truth.
I’m not saying they SHOULD do those things (smoke’m out, cave them in etc). I’m just asking why go to such an extreme measure of flooding the tunnels? Wouldn’t that be the most difficult way of dealing with the tunnels?
but it has the least holohoax connotations
which is ironic because the Germans (like most northern Europeans) were avid animal breeders and drowning was a common method when culling.
it is how I have been doing the racoons the daughters live trap, though daughters thought drowning them was somehow the most cruel thing they ever heard of. They’d rather get the oldest daughter’s husband to shot them with a 22lr and watch them die slowly.
“Wim Zwijnenburg, an environmental expert . . . noted that the flooding could wash hazardous materials out of the tunnels, further contaminating the soil. He also recalled that Gaza’s aquifer has been getting saltier recently due to rising sea levels.”
Rising sea levels? Where’s that happening, you lying sack of cunt climate scam econazi? We’ve all seen the endless photos of the uber-richs’ latest estates being built seaside, hard by the “rising oceans”. Enough, already, you shameless assholes.
Anon you are dead on! Rising sea levels? had to listen to that shit nonstop back in the 80’s and 9o’s. Maldives were going to be under water in 10 years, yada yada. Maldives ate still high and dry. Look at pictures of harbors or things like the Statue of Liberty Island, or Manhattan Island from 100 years ago and now…no. fucking. difference in water levels.
Rising sea levels. lol… These lying sack o shits have to cover all the bases when their lips move. Not only this but the tunnels too. Which span hundreds of kilometers. Some with re-enforced concrete lining and large enough for a man to stand up in.
So some arabs dug hundreds of kilometers of tunnel with what?? Picks and shovels?? Must have been some pretty awesome crews of tunnel rats they employed. Where’d all the dirt get put?? How’d they pump that concrete into them tunnels??
ZERO info coming thru the wires can be believed today, they lie about everything.
Does this mean that the IDF is done bombing hospitals and refugee camps full of kids?
I’m betting not.
.
Who gives a shit how it will be done? Not my fight, not my war. not my land. No matter how, someone will be dead and /or offended. That’s what war is–offences.
Bullshit, you are a gutless wonder without morals or ethics. In other words, a typical American…
Written by jdog, the staunch upholder of morals and ethics! 😂 🤣
I know right, the guy that wants to genocide israel and all muslims
You are a fucking liar. Israel needs to be destroyed, because it is evil. You can argue that if you can muster a argument, but I doubt if you can. I have nothing against any Muslims, they have never harmed me, or as far as I know have the intent to, despite my country having tried to kill and rob them for a hundred years. You however are a person completely lacking in integrity and morals, and the world would be better off without you….
Damn straight Skippy…. A person without morals and ethics is worth their weight in shit….
This was an obvious approach over a month ago. Had the Israelis not had it ready or did they prefer to ethnically cleanse the civilian population? Or both?
Whatever brings the most offerings to Baal and Moloch will be the prefered method for the Israelis.
I’ll give ya one up for the reference to Baal and Moloch….
My whole world thinks I’m bat shit looney, but none can convince me the unseen realm, and those who beliebe the original lie, aren’t responsible for the world heading our way.
No worries, there’s always the father of the big beautifuls….
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
Looks like they already have
https://ok.ru/video/6540034968192
1000 dolars says bombing continues regardless of “tunnels” story outcome.
Future news on CNN “Them Keebler Elves, are popping out of the trees, man!”
The Israel government is totally committed to annexing the entirety of Gaza at whatever the cost. They want it ALL and with Chou Bai Din’s help, including the rest of the traitors in the District of Cesspool in lock-step with their masters, they’ll get it.
They should never have given it away in the first place.
Sounds like a plan.
I would flood the tunnels with sewage instead of sea water.
that sounds very jewish
Why waste perfectly good sea water when the entire middles east is just one big sewer, anyway. Use what ya got.
This ancient enmity will never end until
One side completely obliterates the other.
Not the American people’s problem. Don’t let our evil government make it our problem.
Everything ends . . . eventually. Mount Everest is becoming a beach.
The Horrors In Gaza Are Happening Because The US Empire Wants Them To Happen
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-horrors-in-gaza-are-happening
way too late.
Thomas Jefferson had that much figured out.
Reading the comments here brings this Old Testament verse to mind:
Proverbs 6:16-19
“There are six things the LORD hates, seven that are detestable to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are quick to rush into evil, a false witness who pours out lies and a man who stirs up dissension among brothers.”
The people of israel are guilty of all of them and all of them at one time. What is really odd is the last one since the jews and the muslims (Issac and Ishmael) both came out of Abraham’s immediate family.
‘The people of Amaruca (the Land of the Plumed Serpent) are guilty of all of them and all of them at one time’
Fixed it for you…lol
Isaac- son of the promise
Ishmael- son of the bond woman
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum
What god approves the undertaking of a new order for the ages?
G.R.A.I.N.
Through Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Nanotechnologies….
“ye shall be as gods”
That would be a good way to drown hostages. Why not use concrete as they typically do? At least then you know what you are filling in.
So far, we have not seen any pictures of the vast network of underground resources. Mot of the pictures are simply underground tunnels between buildings.
I smell a rat.
When they went into the WWII Concentration camps they took pictures and showed the world. Why has Bibi not done this?
You know many of those pictures were staged, right?
As I read about these tunnels and what IDF plans to do it harkens me to the descriptions of the Polish Ghettos in Warsaw during WWII. The Germans also flooded those tunnels and built a wall around them to trap the residents in.
But, I suppose me remembering reading about that (could have been propaganda too) makes me antisemitic?
There was a hygiene reason for keeping the Jews in ghettos.
They refused to bath.
They refused to comply with sewage laws, and would dig illegal “privvies” all over their own property.
They refused to wash their clothes and were infested with lice.
The ghettos were to protect the hygiene of the greater community from these filthy humans.
This plan sounds like a massacre for Israel. Go ahead and try it and see what happens….
Idiots. You flood them out into the open FIRST.
THEN you bomb the shit out of them!
Who’s running that clown show?
It’s ALMOST like they don’t want to exterminate every “palestinian” they find.
Curious, ain’t it?
Fucking Red Letter Day!
I agree with the Screwtalizer.