Israel/Palestine

oberliner

(58,724 posts) Tue Oct 22, 2013, 02:27 PM Oct 2013

Hamas admits responsibility for tunnel from Gaza into Israel

Hamas Islamists in the Gaza strip have claimed responsibility for a tunnel that Israel said was found beneath the heavily fortified Israel-Gaza frontier.

A website for the Hamas radio station al Aqsa said the group's armed wing was responsible for what it called the Khan Younis tunnel, named after a part of the coastal territory where the tunnel was found.

A spokesman for the Islamist group's military wing, Abu Ubaida, said in an interiew broadcast by the station that the movement's armed brigades "dug the tunnel, they were responsible for it".

Ubaida said the tunnel had been dug to try to force Israel to release some of the thousands of prisoners it holds in its jails. In 2011, Israel freed 1,400 inmates for the return of its soldier Gilad Shalit, whom militants had captured and spirited across the Gaza border in 2006 through a tunnel.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/hamas-admits-responsibility-for-tunnel-from-gaza-into-israel

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Hamas admits responsibility for tunnel from Gaza into Israel (Original Post) oberliner Oct 2013 OP

Takes a lot of building material and cement to build King_David Oct 2013 #1

They must have a huge sabbat hunter Oct 2013 #2

Yes obviously a surplus because of course King_David Oct 2013 #3

King_David

(14,851 posts)

1. Takes a lot of building material and cement to build

Reply to oberliner (Original post)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:09 PM

Oct 2013

this tunnel.

Think Israel should end the seige and open the borders ?

Primary intended usage of tunnel :

Terrorism.

The next flotilla should bring Hamas building supplies and cement?

sabbat hunter

(6,829 posts)

2. They must have a huge

Reply to King_David (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:34 PM

Oct 2013

surplus of building material and cement in Gaza for Hamas to be able to divert some of it for use in the tunnels, while still making sure that all the people in Gaza are well taken care of with housing and infrastructure.
/sarcasm

King_David

(14,851 posts)

3. Yes obviously a surplus because of course

Reply to sabbat hunter (Reply #2)

Tue Oct 22, 2013, 06:42 PM

Oct 2013

Hamas would put caring for their own people way before killing Jewish children.

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