The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials, whom it described as knowledgeable, that the Israeli occupation army had begun pumping seawater into the “tunnel complex” of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, while a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Minister said that the tunneling process was “secret.” It is not possible to comment on it.
American officials explained – according to what was reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday – that pumping seawater into the tunnels in Gaza is part of efforts that they said were to destroy the infrastructure of the Hamas movement.
They noted that flooding of the movement’s tunnels could take weeks, and that they were concerned that using seawater to flood the tunnels would jeopardize Gaza’s fresh water supply.
“secret operation”
For his part, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Minister said that the tunnel operation is secret and cannot be commented on, according to the Wall Street Journal, on the 67th day of the Israeli war on Gaza and the ongoing clashes with Palestinian resistance factions during the occupation army’s incursion into several axes in the Strip.
The Wall Street Journal quoted American officials last week that Israel had set up a large system of pumps that could be used to flood the tunnels used by Hamas under the Gaza Strip in an attempt to expel its fighters, while previous press reports spoke of Israel considering using “sponge bombs.” To close the tunnels.
