They also keep the hostages there
Israel has created a large system of pumps that can be activated to flood the tunnels used by the armed group Hamas below the surface in the Gaza Strip in an attempt to drive Islamist fighters out of them, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. referring to American officials, Reuters and BTA report.
By mid-November, Israel’s military had completed the installation of at least five pumps about a kilometer north of the Al-Shati refugee camp, which can move thousands of cubic meters of water per hour and fill the tunnels with water within a few weeks. says in the message.
It is not clear whether Israel plans to activate the pumps before all the hostages are released, the publication said.
Hamas has already stated that it is holding the captives in “safe places and tunnels”.
Reuters was unable to verify the details of the announcement. The Israeli Defense Ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and a US representative said it made sense for Israel to render the tunnels unusable and the Jewish state was exploring various ways to achieve that goal.
According to the Wall Street Journal, an Israeli official said that “the Israel Defense Forces are working to destroy Hamas’s capacity to carry out terror in a variety of ways, using a variety of military and technological tools.”
Last month, Israel first said it was considering such an option for the tunnels, the Wall Street Journal reported, but stressed that it was unclear how close Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government was to implementing the plan.
2023-12-05 06:50:00
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