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Israel considers flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater- WSJ (www.reuters.com)

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Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.

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[–] IphtashuFitz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US military tried this tactic with the Vietcong tunnels in Vietnam. How’d that work out?

[–] BombOmOm 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Worked better than sending soldiers into the tunnels to perform one-on-one combat in a very confined space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, tunnel rats did that work largely to capture intel and the sort, which flooding sort of destroys.

[–] Son_of_dad 9 points 1 year ago

Pretty well actually, the war itself doesn't go so well