by debkaFile
Clearly the IDF has been able to develop the technology for detecting and destroying the terror tunnels, so robbing Palestinians of one of their prime weapons of terror against Israel.
The Israel air strike Saturday night, Jan. 13, in
the southern Gaza Strip was aimed at a terror tunnel running 180m into
Israel that Hamas was building under the Kerem Shalom crossing through
which convoys of goods pass from Israel to the Gaza Strip. It also ran
into Egyptian territory under the Rafah border between Gaza and Sinai.
This was disclosed early Sunday by the IDF spokesman. He noted that
Israeli fighters hit the tunnel at the Gaza end. Work to finish its
demolition continued Sunday. The new tunnel ran under the gas and heavy
oil pipelines through which Israel supplies the Gaza Strip population
with fuel.
This was the third Palestinian terror tunnel Israel
had discovered and destroyed in the Gaza Strip in recent months. Hamas
and the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad were responsible for the first two.
DEBKAfile adds: Clearly the IDF has been able to
develop the technology for detecting and destroying the terror tunnels,
so robbing Palestinians of one of their prime weapons of terror against
Israel. Hamas will also have understood that Israel gave Egypt prior
warning of its air strike Saturday night. This prompted the night curfew
Cairo imposed on northern Sinai including the Rafah region an hour
earlier. The tunnel network is also Hamas’ main conduit for smuggling
arms and combatants into and out of the Gaza Strip through Sinai. Now
that the Gaza Strip is under total land blockade, the Palestinian
terrorist group faces hard options: Accept Egyptian and Fatah terms for
reconciliation, launch a massive rocket attack on Israel, or call on the
help of its allies Iran and Hizballah for action to break the blockade
and deliver funds and weapons that can overwhelm the IDF and its new
anti-tunnel technology.
Source: https://www.debka.com/israeli-jets-strike-third-palestinian-terror-tunnel/
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