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Israel could destroy Hamas tunnels with flood of seawater

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Israel is planning to force Hamas to abandon the tunnels beneath Gaza by flooding them with seawater, it has been reported.

US officials told the Wall Street Journal that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) hoped to destroy the terror group’s vast subterranean network by pumping water from the Mediterranean Sea into it.

The IDF is reported to have assembled at least five pumps capable of sending hundreds of thousands of litres of water cascading underground every hour.

The pumps were said to be located about one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp, in northern Gaza.
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Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-considers-plan-flood-hamas-142929451.html