Gaza blockaded

[BlueSharp]

They do but I don't think they are feasible for Gaza. I think they are far more likely to use gas.

Gas would surely be a redline for any of their backers?

[malvolio]

Gas would surely be a redline for any of their backers?

It would. They are more likely to blockade the tunnel entrances. They've not been knocking down buildings for fun, they are aiming to close off Hamas's access to their underground areas; or trap them inside.

[JustKeepSwimming]

Gas would surely be a redline for any of their backers?

Gas, aka chemical weapons, are like nuclear weapons. People have an irrational and unfounded aversion to any use.

They aren't going to use nerve agents, but there are less lethal gases that can be used to clear the tunnels.

[BlueSharp]

It would. They are more likely to blockade the tunnel entrances. They've not been knocking down buildings for fun, they are aiming to close off Hamas's access to their underground areas; or trap them inside.

The other day I read something about expanding sponge bombs that the Israelis had been seen using in training that they could use to seal off the tunnels without the risk of collapse. I guess it's something similar to expanding foam.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-ne...els-war-hamas/

[malvolio]

Gas, aka chemical weapons, are like nuclear weapons. People have an irrational and unfounded aversion to any use.

They aren't going to use nerve agents, but there are less lethal gases that can be used to clear the tunnels.

...and the hostages in them...

[vetran]

He can't. Not until he better understands what Hamas is trying to do, and has been doing for at least 20 years. The other missing factor in this ongoing debate is that the casualty figures are coming from Hamas; what they are not saying is how many are combatants, how many are genuine civilians and, come to that, how many don't actually exist.

and how many are innocents killed by HAMAS?

From GBozo!

https://www.gbnews.com/news/israeli-...c-war-coverage

[BlueSharp]

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-770484

Hamas command centre built under a hospital...

[vetran]

Gas, aka chemical weapons, are like nuclear weapons. People have an irrational and unfounded aversion to any use.

They aren't going to use nerve agents, but there are less lethal gases that can be used to clear the tunnels.

almost all are against the Geneva convention.

https://disarmament.unoda.org/wmd/bi...neva-protocol/

I suspect it will be bunker busters or toppling rubble over the entrances.

[WTFH]

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-770484

Hamas command centre built under a hospital...

Sorry, your source is an Israeli newspaper quoting an IDF commander, and you take it as 100% true?
Is that the same source you used when you made the false claim that the UN had never said anything about the despicable attack on 7th October by Hamas?

[vetran]

Sorry, your source is an Israeli newspaper quoting an IDF commander, and you take it as 100% true?
Is that the same source you used when you made the false claim that the UN had never said anything about the despicable attack on 7th October by Hamas?

There is no doubt the tunnels are extensive 500 km long, The must be under something as Gaza is 40*10 km.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...el-2023-10-26/

Even though Israel has invested heavily in tunnel detection - including a sensor-equipped underground barrier it called an "iron wall" - Hamas is still thought to have working tunnels to the outside world.

After the last round of hostilities in 2021, Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yehya Al-Sinwar, said: "They started saying they destroyed 100kms of Hamas tunnels. I am telling you, the tunnels we have in the Gaza Strip exceed 500kms. Even if their narrative is true, they only destroyed 20% of the tunnels."