Billo
From your posts, it's evident Israel is taking out a lot of rockets. They are also finding quite a few terrorist tunnels.
Maybe Obama could learn a few things about fighting the "JV Team" from them....
The rockets are in response to the occupation. End the occupation and you end the rocket attacks.
As for the tunnels, they're mostly used to bring in goods and services to Gaza, because of the illegal and immoral blockade.
Gee, talk about a bald-faced lie...
Palestinian tunnel warfare in the Gaza Strip - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
In the
Gaza Strip, the
governing authorityHamas developed a sophisticated network of
military tunnels. The internal tunnels, running some dozens of kilometres within the Gaza Strip,
[1] have several functions. Hamas uses the tunnels to hide its arsenal of rocketry underground, to facilitate communication, to permit munition stocks to be hidden and to conceal militants, making detection from the air difficult.
[2] By means of these tunnels, rockets could be launched by remote control.
[1] One IDF expert said the low-tech network was effective in enabling Hamas "to move, conceal, surprise and disappear."
[1]Additional, cross-border tunnels penetrated into Israel for the purpose of making cross-border raids with goals that include mass-casualty attacks and hostage-taking.
[3][4][5][6][7]
The tunnel system branches beneath many Gazan towns and cities, such as
Khan Yunis and
Jabalia and the
Shati refugee camp.
[8] Destroying the tunnels was a primary objective of Israeli forces in the
2014 Israel–Gaza conflict.
[9] The number of tunnels going into Israel has been reported between 9
[10] and 31.
[11]
According to Eado Hecht, an Israeli defence analyst specialising in underground warfare, "Three different kinds of tunnels existed beneath Gaza, smuggling tunnels between Gaza and Egypt; defensive tunnels inside Gaza, used for command centres and weapons storage; and –connected to the defensive tunnels –offensive tunnels used for cross-border attacks on Israel", including the capture of Israeli soldiers.
[12][13] Ihab al-Ghussein, spokesman for the Hamas-run interior ministry, describes the tunnels as an exercise of Gaza's "right to protect itself."
[14] According to the
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the tunnels have been constructed by the military wing of Hamas under the Israel-Gaza border for the purpose of "terrorist attacks" on Israel.
[15]The Israeli government refers to cross-border tunnels as "attack tunnels" or "terror tunnels."
[15][6] The cross-border tunnels were used in the capture of
Gilad Shalit in 2006, and multiple times during the 2014 conflict; in practice only Israeli military targets have successfully been attacked through them.
[10][16] However, Israel reportedly stopped an attempt to raid a kibbutz during the war, and uncovered evidence that the tunnels were being prepared for massive attacks against Israeli civilians.
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