The military and strategic expert, Major General Fayez Al-Duwairi, said that the Gaza Strip tunnel network was built on engineering foundations and with a complex design, in his comment on the occupation army beginning to flood it, according to an American newspaper.
During his military analysis for Manhattan Tribune, Al-Duwairi cited previous statements by leaders of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) about the Gaza tunnels, which they said were more than 500 kilometers long, stressing that they were a spider network, and those who designed them had maps revealing their paths.
He pointed out that those who supervised the construction of the Gaza tunnel network took all considerations and precautions, including the occupation’s flooding of them with water, pointing out that they are not smooth and do not apply the theory of straight vessels. They are at different depths and some of them consist of more than one floor.
“Not connected”
It is likely that the connected part of the tunnels near Al-Rashid Street (Al-Bahr) has close ends, and that the tunnel network is not all connected or open towards the rest, expecting that the occupation army will succeed in flooding only a certain part.
He revealed that the occupation had established an engineering battalion to deal with tunnels in an area inside the Negev, and tried to train to confront them using dogs, robots, drowning, and chemical agents such as toxic gases, but failed to neutralize their danger in the battles of the Gaza Strip.
It is noteworthy that the Wall Street Journal quoted informed American officials that the Israeli army began pumping seawater into the Hamas tunnel complex in Gaza, amid expectations that the process of flooding the tunnels in the Strip will continue for weeks.
A few days ago, Israeli government spokesman Elon Levy described the Hamas tunnels as unique, while the British newspaper “Financial Times” quoted another official as saying that the destruction of Gaza’s tunnels is like science fiction.
