Can Someone Explain To Me These Tunnels That Israel Is Trying To Destroy.....

[oberliner]

20. You are getting a lot of misinformation in the responses

The tunnels that are for bringing goods into Gaza are tunnels into Egypt.

What we are talking about her are tunnels into Israel, not Egypt. These are meant for attacks within Israel.

I believe that Israel has said these tunnels have been built over the last 18 months or so. Israeli intelligence has been faulted for not having a better understanding of the nature and scope of these tunnels into recently.

Remember that there has been no Israeli presence within Gaza since the withdrawal (Yes, Israel has still controlled access into and out of Gaza (except for the border with Egypt) but they had no presence inside Gaza itself).

With that in mind, Israel had to rely on intelligence reports - which provided only sketchy information about these tunnels - enough to put Israel on alert and enough to inspire high level discussions about what to do about the situations- but not enough actionable information to destroy the tunnels.

If, over the course of the past year or so, as Israel learned of the tunnels, they started bombing the areas where they thought that might be as they found out about them - that really would not have been effective.

Destroying all the tunnels completely and effectively would require something like what is going on right now.