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The Troubling Reality of Gaza's Terror Tunnels


(Ynet News) Smadar Perry - Scores of Hamas terrorists emerging from a tunnel from Gaza discovered last month, one of the four tunnels unearthed in the past year, could have reached the closest Israeli community within five minutes. Last week, after I entered the "Israeli" third of a tunnel without bending down, I asked a senior IDF officer if he could promise that another Palestinian tunnel was not being dug out under our feet as we spoke. "One?" He replied. "Why not 10?" This is Hamas' flagship project in Gaza. Their prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, boasted that "thousands of heroes are working quietly underground, preparing the next battles over Palestine." The most annoying thing is that they are lining the tunnels with the cement we transfer to Gaza.
2014-04-25 00:00:00
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