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It’s well known that Hamas likes to literally hide underground behind civilian shields like schools and hospitals. However, seems they have been busy little The Palestinian Islamist group said before the now eight-week-old war in the Gaza Strip that it had hundreds of kilometres of tunnels – a network comparable in size to the New York subway system – to protect and serve as operational bases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n To date the Israelis say they have uncovered over eight hundred tunnel entrances.<\/p>\n For comparison, there are only 365 square kilometers to the whole Gaza area, and Israel hasn’t really been boots-on-the-ground in well over half of it. Whole lot of holes ion the ground, and a lot of hidey holes.<\/p>\n “The tunnel shafts were located in civilian areas, many of which were near or inside civilian buildings and structures, such as schools, kindergartens, mosques and playgrounds,” the military said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n The statement, summarising anti-tunnel operations so far, followed near-daily accounts to the media by troops who said they uncovered access shafts in civilian sites.\u00a0 Reuters<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The army said it had destroyed over half so far.\u00a0\u00a0 Some news sources, like NBC News, allege that the Israelis are setting up pumps and pipelines to flood the Hamas tunnel network with sea water.<\/p>\n The plan to pump water into the tunnels, the officials said, is among the options being explored by Israel to destroy the system, which has emerged as a central goal of the Gaza campaign. Israel\u2019s military declined to comment on the flooding tactic, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n But in the past, it has said the tunnels have been used to conceal hostages, weapons and fighters who can travel across the Gaza Strip without exposing themselves to airstrikes and ambush invading ground forces. Hamas leaders have boasted the tunnels are hundreds of miles long and full of traps.<\/p>\n They are also a hiding place for the group\u2019s leaders.\u00a0 NBC News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Think a key word in there is “hostages”. Which leads to the unhappy released hostages:<\/p>\n Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced harsh criticism from freed hostages and relatives of those still being held captive by Hamas during a war cabinet meeting, according to leaked audio of the heated event.<\/p>\n Recordings from Tuesday\u2019s meeting revealed that the freed hostages had felt abandoned by their government during their weeks of captivity in Gaza, with several people shouting \u201cShame!\u201d at Netanyahu while one woman accused Israel of conducting airstrikes near the place she and others were being held.<\/p>\n The woman went on to blast Israel\u2019s intelligence network, alleging that the government had \u201cno information\u201d at all about the hostages\u2019 location given that their holding place was shelled during the IDF\u2019s bombardments in northern Gaza.<\/p>\n The prime minister reiterated that it was Hamas that broke the temporary cease-fire when it allegedly refused to free the remaining female captives, as per the agreement, which the US and Qatar helped to broker.<\/p>\n The civilians who attended the meeting told ynet that they were displeased with the session, saying their concerns were not heard and that \u201cNetanyahu\u2019s reply was curt, and he seemed detached from the conversation.\u201d\u00a0 NY Post<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n She got kidnapped by Hamas, Israel forced her release, and she is ticked that it wasn’t fast enough. Right. Think that says something about entitlement? I remember a phrase that “some people would complain if they were hanged with a new rope”.\u00a0 Seems applicable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"beavers<\/del> burrowers since 2015 when the Palestinian populace elected them to run Gaza.<\/p>\n\n