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IDF: Terror Tunnels under Northern Border Pose Major Threat

(Israel Hayom) Hanan Greenwood - Terror tunnels will play a major part in the next armed conflict on Israel's northern and southern borders, IDF Maj.-Gen. Mickey Edelstein, who heads counter-tunnel warfare development efforts, said Sunday. He was speaking at a symposium on "Subterranean Challenges in War and Peace," hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in collaboration with the U.S. Military Academy of West Point and the U.S. Embassy in Israel. "There is a 100% chance that we will face the challenge of the tunnels in Gaza and in Lebanon," he said. In the northern sector, "Every village has tunnels....We don't have the intelligence capability to discern the location of each and every tunnel."
2019-12-17 00:00:00
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