After weeks of heavy bombing and an extremely violent ground operation in Gaza, 80% of the tunnels beneath the Palestinian enclave remain intact. The revelation comes from Israeli and US sources told the Wall Street Journal. The network of tunnels that runs under Palestinian territory is impressive. Israel – recalls the American newspaper – used various methods to render them unusable: it installed pumps to flood them with water from the Mediterranean, it destroyed them with air strikes and liquid explosives, it sent dogs and robots to close them search, it destroyed them entrances, deployment of highly qualified soldiers.
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But how much of the network was destroyed is still not clear: Israel and the United States have difficulty accurately assessing the extent of the destruction, in part because it is not clear with certainty how many kilometers of tunnels exist (it appears to be around 400 kilometers ). practically half of the New York subway system). However, sources in both countries estimate that between 20 and 40% of the tunnels have been damaged or rendered unusable, most of them in northern Gaza. But there are still many tunnels where Palestinian terrorists, especially their leaders, continue to sow terror.
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