Israel/Palestine

shira

(30,109 posts) Sun Sep 25, 2016, 08:43 AM Sep 2016

IDF official: Gaza underground wall to be done in months

Senior figure in Southern Command says concrete and water barrier will make tunneling ‘a deathtrap’ for terror groups

...The Southern Command official said that the structure will include a wall deep below the ground as well as flooding parts of the roughly 60-kilometer (40-mile) border.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing regulations, said the goal is to turn Hamas’s underground network into a “death trap.”

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http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-official-gaza-underground-wall-to-be-done-in-months/

Obviously, this death trap is a violation of humanitarian law. If any peace loving teddybear terrorists are digging tunnels and they die, Israel should be dragged to the Hague for war crimes. What about the human rights of Hamas? Oh the humanity!

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IDF official: Gaza underground wall to be done in months (Original Post) shira Sep 2016 OP

an underground apartheid wall, they will say 6chars Sep 2016 #1

I think there's a decent chance this leads to war before the IDF is finished... shira Sep 2016 #2

hopefully you are wrong. 6chars Sep 2016 #3

Since there's a water supply problem, Igel Sep 2016 #4

Or they can renounce terror and recognize Israel oberliner Sep 2016 #5

Meanwhile, Gaza is falling apart... Little Tich Sep 2016 #6

6chars

(3,967 posts)

1. an underground apartheid wall, they will say

Reply to shira (Original post)

Sun Sep 25, 2016, 11:22 AM

Sep 2016

i wonder if hamas might try a new tactic, such as renouncing terror.

shira

(30,109 posts)

2. I think there's a decent chance this leads to war before the IDF is finished...

Reply to 6chars (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 25, 2016, 11:25 AM

Sep 2016

If Hamas already has tunnels leading into Israel, they're not going to want to see them go to waste.

Hopefully I'm wrong.

6chars

(3,967 posts)

3. hopefully you are wrong.

Reply to shira (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 25, 2016, 11:33 AM

Sep 2016

but they might do it, with the expectation that the UN would intervene to save the tunnels they (both the UN and Hamas) have been investing in so heavily. on the other hand, most sovereign nations should not be expected to allow terror tunnels across its borders.