Financial Times: Hamas tunnels are bigger than the London subway

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, “destroying Hamas tunnels is considered the most difficult part of the Israeli army’s mission and one of the most important. We have to be patient, it takes time” These are parts of the words of Difne Richmond-Barak, a professor at “Richman” University in Tel Aviv and the author of a book on the underground battle.

In a report, the English newspaper “Financial Times” discussed the extent of Hamas’s underground tunnel network in Gaza and quoted knowledgeable sources in the Israeli army, claiming that the tunnel network is estimated to be larger than the underground train network. It is London’s (metro), it allows senior leaders and members of Hamas to take refuge in it, most of whom are believed to have survived the nearly eight weeks of relentless Israeli assault underground.

London Underground has 270 main stations and 260 sub-stations, and 55% of this network is located on the ground. This network, with 408 km of railway, is considered the third longest intra-city transportation line in the world.

One ​​of the former Israeli security officials has claimed that the word “tunnel” refers to what Hamas under created Gaza, is not fair, and instead used the term “underground cities”. He said that the Hamas tunnel network is an elaborate “spider web” that is several kilometers long and has “large halls” that can accommodate 25 people. ) created a series of tunnels in the last 16 years that are used for strategic offensive and tactical defense, and the purpose of these tunnels is that the resistance forces can inflict heavy blows on the Israeli military ranks away from the eyes of the Zionist fighters.

The Zionist army has prioritized the destruction of Hamas tunnels, but it has not fully specified how to plan to achieve this goal. It destroyed “Al-Momadani” under the pretext that Hamas tunnels are located under them, but it has not provided any documentary evidence to prove this claim.

The Israeli army claims that the Hamas tunnel network is more than 500 km and “the tunnels are a huge challenge… Explosive traps and obstacles in the way of our movement inside the tunnels increase the risks [for our forces].

Tel Aviv since 2016, $320 million It received US military assistance to strengthen and develop anti-tunnel techniques, but it has not provided any definitive solutions to deal with these tunnels.

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