Truth From The Battlefield
From The Battlefield: Hamas Tunnels Used To
Target Israel’s Kindergartens.
Target Israel’s Kindergartens.
tunnel network – now known to have been composed of over forty attack tunnels
dug underneath Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip – was set
to be activated during the Jewish High Holidays (September 24th)
as a mass terror attack.The attack was meant to generate as many as ten
thousand casualties, men, women and particularly children and hundreds of
captives. Explosives were particularly placed underneath kindergartens
to make certain that these “institutions” would be the first struck, even
before any thing else.The IDF recently published the below map showing
that tunnels were created in pairs, to empty out on both sides of nearby
communities. The known cost of the infrastructure – each tunnel costs
upward of some $1 million – clearly shows that Hamas was planning a
coordinated mega-attack. It must be understood that use of even one
tunnel would inevitably trigger Israeli retaliation against the entire
network.A map of a small portion of
the tunnels meant to be used 9 weeks from now.Revelations regarding the planned tunnel attack
magnitude played a decisive role in the Israeli government’s rejection of a
ceasefire proposed late Friday by Secretary of State John
Kerry.Unbelievably, Kerry actually proposed in his latest
“cease-fire proposal” – none of which have been honored by Hamas so far – that
Israel refrains from degrading remaining attack tunnels. This
mind-boggling concept would necessarily be rejected by any sane government, of
any country.Israeli security sources, citing information
acquired in interrogations of captured brigands, described a scenario under
which hundreds of heavily armed Hamas fighters would have spilled out into
Israel in the dead of night and within 10 minutes been positioned to
infiltrate essentially all Israeli communities surrounding the Gaza
Strip. Waiting then in hiding until schools and kindergartens were
occupied, the terrorists would then attempt to kill the children first, and
then kill and kidnap as many Israelis as possible. The plot was set to
take place during Jewish New Year, on September 24.by
Taboola“It’s like the Underground, the Metro or the
Subway,” Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Peter Lerner said. “These tunnels
are all connected. I would describe it as Lower Gaza.”Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said, “A
whole city of terror tunnels has been found. Without the ground
operation, we would have woken up one day to an Israeli 9/11.”Except, the actual objective was to be five times
9/11.This picture shows clearly
the width of one of the tunnels, sufficient for wheeled vehicles to transverse
it. Hamas did not build a “subway” system for Gaza residents. They
built an infrastructure for one purpose, and one only, an industry of
death.Israeli military officials reported that the tunnels
are stocked with tranquilizers, handcuffs, syringes, ropes and other materials
used for subduing abductees, civilians and soldiers. The tunnels also
had fantastic quantities of explosives and additional military materiel meant
to be used in the up-coming mega attack. Much of these explosives had
already been placed underneath Israeli kindergartens. Some of these
tunnels were as deep as 30 meters underground.Fantastic quantities of
explosives were stored in every tunnel, meant to be used in a mega-attack on
civilian communities and infrastructure.Sources say the Gaza Strip war, Operation Protective
Edge, could serve as a prelude for a more extensive underground war with the
Iranian-sponsored Hezbollah. Perhaps, not ‘just’ in the Middle East.The tunnels inside Gaza and under the Israeli border
are not a secret project Hamas ran under the noses of Israel and the
Palestinian public. Everyone in Gaza, knew that beneath Gaza, the City and all
of its environs, a network of tunnels was being dug over the past five years,
with an investment of tens of millions of dollars. Yet no one in Israel,
public or military, was prepared for the scope of the tunnels – the danger
that became clear in the past week or two.Senior Hamas operatives show off their offensive
tunnels to their spouses. Unbelievably, this is actually a picture of a
Marriage taking place in the ‘place of death’.In order to create this monstrosity, Hamas needed
significant professional help; and this help had to have come from a large
organization or state entity. This is not just the monetary aid it
received from Qatar, America’s ally. This is professional guidance for
the performance of such an underground feat. Perhaps Hamas could have
used experts from the tunnels dug at Rafah under the Gaza-Egypt border, but
those were significantly simpler, and did not demand any extraordinary
investment or effort.A Hamas operative climbing
upward in a pier of one of the major tunnels. Notice the work on the
sides of the tunnel.Who supplied these quantities of material? Who
planned what would be needed? How did Hamas acquire thousands of
ampoules of tranquilizer, syringes and other, additional drugs to be
used? These are far beyond the quantities and variety of what is needed
by any civilian medical service.How was all this brought in to the Gaza Strip?
The logistics of this planned attack are the work of a well-organised
military, not that of a militia or club. This was no amateur
plan.Observers note that attack scenarios lined up with
recently revealed data about the sophistication, scope and nature of the
offensive tunnel network. As previously reported here,
this sophistication and know-how is being copied right now by Mexico-based
Hezbollah agents along the Southern US border. Tunnels in Southern
Lebanon, as in South US, are significantly more difficult to detect than those
in the sandy terrain of the Gaza Strip.“Hamas planned these tunnels for years, and planned
to use them to kidnap soldiers,” Israeli military spokesman Brig. Gen.
Mordechai Almoz said. “[Now] they see the tunnels collapsing one after the
other.” For the last two years, the Israeli army has sought to develop
skills and equipment to fight in enemy tunnels and bunkers. Hamas and
Islamic Jihad have used tunnels to operate command and control, to infiltrate
Israel and abduct soldiers, to fire rockets and to conceal fighters amid
invasion of the Gaza Strip.———-Mordechai Ben-Menachem is a former
researcher/lecturer at Ben-Gurion University and an author of 30 book ranging
from engineering to poetry. He is also an ordained clergyman and a former
soldier.
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