Wall Street Journal: Israel’s effort to destroy Hamas tunnels has been hampered

Fars News Agency International Group; “80% of the vast tunnels of Hamas are still intact”, these are the admissions of the American and Israeli officials who say that the efforts of the Zionist regime to destroy the tunnels have failed and the key and main goal of Israel in the Gaza war has been disrupted.

The American newspaper “Wall Street Journal” reported, Israeli officials say that curbing the ability of Hamas to use the tunnels has become a major obstacle in the way of Israel’s efforts to arrest the senior leaders of Hamas and release the prisoners. /p>

The authorities of the Zionist regime say that in order to find and destroy Hamas tunnels, they have carried out attacks against hospitals and other key infrastructures in Gaza.

According to According to Tel Aviv, they have used various methods to destroy the Hamas tunnels, including installing water pumps to flow a large volume of Mediterranean sea water into these tunnels, destroying the tunnels with airstrikes and liquid explosives, searching with dogs and The robot pointed out the destruction of tunnel entrances and attacks on tunnels with highly trained soldiers. Palestinians, most of whom are women and children, have been martyred by the Zionists.

According to the Wall Street Journal, American and Israeli authorities can hardly make an accurate assessment of the level of destruction of the tunnels. Part of that is because they can’t accurately estimate how many miles of tunnels there are beneath Gaza.

However, US and Israeli officials estimate that only about 20 Up to 40 percent of Hamas tunnels were damaged or unusable, and US officials say most of these tunnels were in northern Gaza. US Marine Corps and Central Intelligence Agency Mick Mulroy says of Hamas’ tunnels: “Hamas’ strategy revolves around tunnels, it’s their center of gravity. They needed the tunnels to level the battlefield with the Israeli army.

According to this report, under Gaza, a labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas, the regime’s ground attack Zionism has made it difficult and complicated in Gaza.

Israeli officials say that some prisoners are in the command center in a tunnel under Khan Yunis. An Israeli military official also claims that the senior leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, is also hiding in this place.

Former officials and Israeli military analysts believe that the attack on the command center in Khan Yunis is endangering the lives of the prisoners, and Tel Aviv is caught between killing Sinwar and negotiating for the release of some or all of the remaining prisoners in the hands of Hamas.

An official of the Zionist regime then stated: “The mission is very It’s hard, it’s being done very slowly and very cautiously, it’s urban warfare like never before seen on a global scale.” The Wall Street Journal went on to point out that even Determining the location of Sinwar and the rest of the captives is a very difficult task. Gershon Baskin, one of the negotiators on the issue of prisoners who facilitated Israel’s 2011 agreement with Hamas for the release of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier in Gaza, says that Israel has not known where Sinwar is for years.

He said about this: “It is unbelievable that this is Israel’s backyard, but they have very little information”.