Background: Gaza Tunnel Problem - Security and defense
[Link: www.jpost.com...]
[good recent backgrounder into understanding the tunnel issues the IDF faces]
“Gaza is turning into Vietnam,” a senior security official said, “and I am not sure that the IDF will know how to fight in such an environment.”
At the moment, intelligence estimates indicate that dozens of kilometers of Vietcong-style tunnels are being dug. They will be used by Hamas operatives to move quickly and covertly between positions, in the event of an IDF ground assault.
Anti-tank crews will also have positions inside the tunnels, from which they will be able to fire the advanced anti-tank missiles recently smuggled into Gaza.
Tunnels are also becoming part of the scene in the West Bank, where IDF soldiers earlier this month found and destroyed a 150-meter-long tunnel underneath downtown Hebron. Last year, similar tunnel systems were discovered in the Nablus casbah.
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Frank says: