Flood the Gaza Tunnels
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Wonder what all that sea water would do over time?
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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The hostages may be an issue. While the bombings and clearing the tunnels manually will likely mean their demise, the flooding would be assured.
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As I watched this, I thought about @Renauda's comment - how sea water is so corrosive and damaging to everything. It'll destroy the tunnels, to be sure, but also, I assume, the buildings above the tunnels.
Oh, wait...there aren't any buildings above the tunnels any more.
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I will be interesting to see how that goes.
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@jon-nyc said in Flood the Gaza Tunnels:
imagine being the soldier on point going in the tunnel first.
(slight derail)
In the early Bosch books, it's described how Harry Bosch was a "tunnel rat" in Vietnam. The trauma of that experience haunted him for years.
In the TV series, it's tunnels in the first Gulf War.
(back to your thread)
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Israel has assembled a system of large pumps it could use to flood Hamas’s vast network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that could destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but also threaten Gaza’s water supply, U.S. officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces finished assembling large seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp around the middle of last month. Each of at least five pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them within weeks.
Israel first informed the U.S. of the option early last month, prompting a discussion weighing its feasibility and effect on the environment against the military value of disabling the tunnels, officials said.
U.S. officials said they didn’t know how close the Israeli government was to carrying out the plan. Israel hasn’t made a final decision to move ahead, nor has it ruled the plan out, officials said.
