TUNNEL VISION-

Posted By on July 27th, 2014

FROM AMERICAN LIBERTY

WHAT HAMAS PLANNED TO DO WITH THE TERROR TUNNELS

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/what-hamas-planned-to-do-with-terror.html

The prime danger, the second half of the terror strategy that has required us to send our troops into Gaza, has turned out to be Hamas’s cross-border tunneling, the scale of which was not publicly known until the last few days. Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog spoke Tuesday of the “unimaginable” mega-terror attack Hamas is believed to have been planning — sending hundreds of terrorists swarming through those tunnels to massacre Israelis in the Gaza-envelope kibbutzim and moshavim. Netanyahu said Sunday that the intended Hamas attacks on kibbutz kindergartens, homes and dining halls would have been “catastrophic.”

HAMAS’ NEW YEAR SURPRISE…AND JOHN KERRY’S CEASE-FIRE
http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/600/825.html?hp=1&cat=875&loc=1

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/07/hamas-new-year-surprise-and-john-kerrys.html

Maariv – Israel’s third largest circulation daily – is confirming that Hamas planned a mass terror attack on southern Israel on Rosh HaShannah, the Jewish New Year, a little more than two months from now.

According to the report, Hamas planned to send up to 200 terrorists through many tunnels that lead into six different kibbutzim, moshavim and villages around Gaza’s borders. The terrorists’ mission was to have been the mass murder and kidnapping of as many Jews as possible. Although the newspaper does not make the connection, I suspect that this map likely shows some of the places involved, and explains why the battle of Shejalya earlier this week was so important.

The IDF was aware of the tunnels, and as a result, the soldiers who were sent to destroy them over the past week knew exactly where to go. But the IDF was not aware of the specific plan for a mass terror two months from now – that came from interrogating Hamas terrorists who were captured this pas week.

During the course of Operation Protective edge, the IDF discovered that the tunnels did not go straight as it assumed, but the tunnels intersected with each other, to allow the transfer of terrorists from one tunnel to the next. The tunnels inlcuded storage rooms for weapons, tranquilizer drugs, anc cables to tie the hands of potential kidnap victims. The idea was to kill as many people as possible, and bring back many more to ransom for “Palestinian” terrorists languishing in Israel prisons.
According to Maariv, the tunnel digging started several years ago, and in the last year Hamas terrorists have been working three shifts per day, around the clock, in order to add 15 meters per day to each tunnel. Hamas has spent hundreds of millions of dollars (actually, euros) on the tunnels, which money could have gone to pay for schools, hospitals, bomb shelters, etc.
The IDF has told the political echelon that it is capable of finishing the job, but it needs several more days to do so. Hamas, whose plans and capabilities have been completely exposed, now wants a cease fire to save what is left (about 4,000 of its 9,000 rockets, among other things), but it is in the IDF’S interest not to have a cease fire now, and to nail Hamas to the wall.
Enter U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, our unwelcome guest.
Kerry has proposed a week-long cease fire, beginning on Sunday. (Hat Tip: Memorandum). During that week, the parties would negotiate a more permanent deal, i.e, until the next time Hamas violates it. It would leave Hamas with some tunnels intact, with about 45% of its rocket supply, and with the ability to fight another day. It would also bring Hamas billions in international aid for ‘reconstruction.’ much of which would likely be diverted to reconstruct the tunnels, as was the case after Operations Cast lead and Pillar of Defense. prime

THE TERRIBLE COST OF THWARTING HAMAS
http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-terrible-cost-of-thwarting-hamas/
‘IF WE DON’T DEAL WITH GAZA TUNNELS NOW, THESE THREATS WILL COME TO US’
http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/If-we-dont-deal-with-Gaza-tunnels-now-these-threats-will-come-to-us-368922

 

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