The Israeli army said on Jan 30 it was flooding Hamas’s attack tunnels amid intense fighting in Gaza, even as international mediators pushed for a new halt in the nearly four-month war.
The Israeli army said on Jan 30 it was flooding Hamas ’s attack tunnels amid intense fighting in Gaza , even as international mediators pushed for a new halt in the nearly four-month war. The epicentre of the fighting has been Khan Younis, southern Gaza ’s main city where vast areas have been reduced to a muddy wasteland of bombed-out buildings.
The Israeli military said it had adopted the tactic of channelling water into Hamas’s vast underground network of tunnels that it has dubbed “the Gaza metro”. “It is part of a range of tools deployed by the IDF (Israeli army) to neutralise the threat of Hamas’ subterranean network of tunnels,” the military said in a statement, confirming media reports. At the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, there were 1,300 tunnels over 500km in Gaza, according to a study from US military academy West Poin
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