Is the idea of ​​flooding the Gaza tunnels with sea water real?

Fars News Agency International Group – Note; Vahid Samadi.

For several days, the Israeli media have been talking about an idea to deal with the Hamas tunnels in the Gaza Strip. Last Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel has prepared a large and advanced pumping system to direct sea water into the Hamas tunnel network, thus destroying the tunnels and forcing Hamas leaders to leave.

On Wednesday (December 6), the English newspaper The Times repeated the same news and wrote that relevant engineers have arrived in the Gaza Strip to oversee the mission of using an advanced water pumping system to send water into the Gaza tunnels. But Israel is hesitant to use this strategy.

This idea has its pros and cons. Of course, to deal with Hamas tunnels in Gaza, this idea is not the only one proposed; Dropping grenades, releasing nerve gas in the tunnels, using tracking dogs have all been proposed and implemented and failed. These days, the so-called “chain of fire” attacks, which take a several-meter line under the bombardment of powerful bombs, are being carried out against the tunnel city.

But Israel’s problem is not in the “solution”; The problem is in the case of the problem. The Israelis must first find the tunnel and then find a solution for it. Therefore, this problem still exists. This problem is the main problem and obstacle for Israel in this war. Just two nights ago, after sixty days of hysterical bombing, Qassam missiles were also firing at Israel at the same time as the bombing; A humiliating shot.

Therefore, when Israel does not know where the tunnel is and where it is not, it is better not to look for a solution and first acknowledge the weakness of its intelligence and say that Mossad and Shabak with the presence of the intelligence services of five American countries England, France, Germany and Italy have not yet been able to find a solution to the problem in the two Israeli war rooms in Tel Aviv and near Gaza.

On the other hand, first of all, it must be said, the Israelis should know better than anyone, and they know that, first of all, they are facing a tunnel city in Gaza with network nine; They know there is a city, but they don’t know where exactly. Second, doesn’t America have the unsuccessful experience of fighting against the tunnel city of Vietnam? Didn’t he deal with the dog, with nerve gas and even Saigon river water, with Cu Chi tunnel? he succeeded? Thirdly, is Hamas in the age of technology less than the Vietnamese fifty years ago to create a tunnel city but not think about the entry and non-entry and penetration of water, air, gas and enemy elements? Is Hamas 2023 weaker than the Vietnamese fifty years ago who solved the tunnel city energy supply problem with a bicycle? Fourthly, doesn’t Tel Aviv know that Hamas built such a tunnel city independently of the city and the Gaza Strip?

But where did the designer of the idea of ​​closing water to the Gaza tunnels come from? The British Times wrote that Eric Prince, a former member of the US Navy and the founder of the infamous Blackwater company and an arms dealer who is said to be a resident of the United Arab Emirates, went to Israel after the events of October 7 and suggested that Tel Aviv is an advanced mining system. Buy him and fill the Hamas tunnels in Gaza with sea water. According to Ma’ariv newspaper, America has given warnings to Israel in this regard, including Prince’s involvement in the matter, as well as disappointing signals about how successful this idea can be at all, and if the water is released, what will happen to the water in the Gaza Strip and underground waters. It will come.

Of course, such obstacles are not an obstacle for Israel, because when it massacres 16,000 people in two months, 70% of whom are women and children, there is certainly no importance to the consequences of water. It does not close to the tunnels. Tel Aviv is facing more fundamental problems.

First, assuming the idea is successful at the implementation level, what will it do with the 138 Israeli prisoners that Hamas says are being held in Gaza tunnels? Can Netanyahu answer their family and the public opinion of Israel? no
Second, as mentioned, is this idea feasible? If Israel finds every opening of this tunnel, and closes the water, can it drown the network and the tunnel city of Gaza? All the necessary measures have been thought out for this city and Israel can damage a part of it, but it cannot destroy it and think that if it releases water from one side, the water will take the whole city through a tunnel.

Thirdly, because the result of this idea has no guarantee or a high percentage of success up to this stage, Israel cannot implement it and two months have passed and there is not much time left.

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