The Hebrew media acknowledged the defeat of Israel in front of the Gaza tunnels

according to the Hebrew group Tasnim News, Haaretz newspaper in its Monday issue in an investigative article with The headline “Tunnels under Gaza are created for survival” addressed the tunnels of the Gaza Strip and provided various information in this regard to its readers.

According to this Hebrew-language media, the first tunnels were dug in the Gaza Strip in 1967, day by day the capabilities of tunnel digging activists increased, and the Israeli army’s efforts to destroy it and the new life that has formed underground over the past years have all failed.

It is stated at the beginning of this article that today all officials at different levels and units of the Israeli army have found a common opinion that the network of Hafar tunnels In the Gaza Strip, it has been much bigger and with more branches than Israel imagined.

Haaretz adds in this regard, besides There is a perception in the army among military commanders that it will not be possible to destroy all the tunnels, and not only will we not be able to destroy all the Hamas and Islamic Jihad tunnels in the Gaza Strip, but we will not be able to access most of them.

The author of the article adds: The Israeli army is reducing its forces in the Gaza Strip after three months of war, and there is an unprecedented conflicting feeling among the officials. and the commanders have been formed, on the one hand they are happy with the access and destruction of a number of tunnels, and on the other hand, they are upset and disappointed that more of these tunnels are still standing and may still be in use. He said that the existing tunnels under the Gaza Strip existed even before the formation of Hamas in 1987 and will remain so after the end of the current war.

In another part of the article, it is stated that in 2005, the first tunnel was discovered near the Ayers Pass, so the Ministry of War created barriers underground and equipped the underground barrier with concrete and vibration sensing devices. Kurds, after the completion of the construction of the barrier wall in 2021, many promises were announced regarding the expansion of security, at the top of which the officials and commanders of the Israeli security institutions emphasized that it will neutralize all large-scale attacks against Israel.

Therefore, they no longer felt the need to take action against the existing tunnels inside the Gaza Strip.

An intelligence source who has been following the activities of Hamas for several years said: The construction of the barrier wall caused the attention and follow-up of the tunnels inside the Gaza Strip to be completely faded in the circles of the Israeli army and it was removed from the priorities of the intelligence agencies. The issue did not mean that we had completely forgotten about this issue, but the feeling arose in the security and military structures that as long as these tunnels did not cross the border line, they would pose a much lesser threat to us.

But the barrier wall failed before the test on October 7 and was crossed from the ground level until after that the tunnels in the Gaza strip 250 Israelis swallow the captive.

At first it was thought that Hamas will use these tunnels to ambush the Israeli army, but gradually this admission in It was heard more among the structure of the Israeli army that the network of tunnels in the Gaza strip is much bigger and more branched than what we expected so far and contrary to the idea of ​​its use, it is not used for offensive and offensive actions but to maintain the forces. /p>

There was also this hypothesis that simply occupying the surface and on the ground can cause the collapse of all tunnels, because in such conditions, oxygen, water and food in There was a shortage of tunnels and those present in it were forced to leave and surrender. It was revealed that the tunnels were very well equipped for long-term residence and even allowed its inhabitants to travel between different areas of the same city and perhaps the Gaza Strip.

For a long time, the media quoted the Israeli army as saying that it destroyed units of Hamas one after another, but after a while, we saw that new battalions were forming in areas and places. others get involved with the Israeli army.

Whenever we receive information about the presence of one or more prisoners inside a certain tunnel, when When we reached the point, we could see that these people had evacuated the said tunnel a long time ago. The combat of the Israeli army has increased its capabilities by being equipped with new technologies and special bombs to participate in the war of tunnels.

However, this It is not enough, field commanders realized that in some cases, planning to destroy several hundred meters of tunnel requires days and even weeks.

Meanwhile At the same time, hundreds of Israeli soldiers are forced to be present in the tunnel and support the engineering forces.

Besides that The Atlantis plan to sink the tunnels of Gaza was implemented in the hope that the fighters would get out of the tunnels when the water entered, but this project did not register any special losses for Hamas and the Palestinian groups.

In this regard, the Israeli army changed its measures in this war and issued an order to prohibit the entry of elite forces into the tunnels and declared that it is not willing to take any risks in this regard and should only cameras or trained dogs should be used to check the tunnel. The tunnels were one of the goals that seemed unrealistic from the start.

Maybe the Israeli army is able to engage with the Palestinians as a military threat, but they They will remain underground, maybe this is why the father of Israel’s air defense system says in this regard: Israel has complete superiority in the sky and always has the most advanced technologies. The ground is flat.

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