Israel’s chief of staff has described the idea of flooding the Islamist Hamas’ extensive tunnel system under the Gaza Strip with seawater as a good idea. However, he didn’t want to go into more detail about it Dear Halevi in front of journalists in response to a corresponding question. The army is encountering a lot of underground infrastructure in the sealed-off coastal strip, he says. “We knew there were a lot of them. One goal is to destroy them.”
According to Halevi, there are different ways to do this. He did not want to go into individual considerations or measures. However, he states: “Any measure that increases our advantage over the enemy emerging from the underground and denies him that advantage is a measure which we seriously consider adopting.” This also includes destroying the tunnels with explosions in order to prevent Hamas terrorists from using them.