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As it is nearing to complete two months, since the bloody and brutal genocidal bombing of Israel on innocent civilians of Gaza, report suggests the occupation force is considering another method to bring out Hamas from the complex tunnels, where they claim to take the hostages from Israel during the October 7th attack. Wall Street Journal reported about the occupation force’s plan by quoting US official who informed about the plan.
Reports say, five large pumps were placed at al-Shati refugee camp. The pipes were believed to pump thousands of cubic metres of seawater from the Mediterranean sea into the alleged complex network of tunnels under the Gaza Strip and flood them within weeks. Israel told the US officials about the plan that they were considering to execute and wanted to know about the environmental factors against the military necessities.
The occupation force has been claiming about Hamas taking hostages into the tunnel that is sprawled under Gaza. If the occupation force is going forth with the plan, it is not clear whether they would wait until all the hostages are returned.
The seawater pumping will have major environmental issues for the Gaza. It can make the surface of Gaza’s ground extremely unstable by poisoning the already semi-salinated aquifers under the surface of the enclave. It will also salinate Gaza’s soil making it extremely hard for the Gazans to grow crops.
The occupation force has already grazed the limited number of farms that existed in the tiny coastal enclave that has been trapped for decades. earlier, Human Rights Watch has reported about the Israeli ground invasion has “orchards, greenhouses and farmland in northern Gaza have been razed since the beginning of the invasion”.
Pumping seawater into Hamas tunnels is not a new thing. In 2015, Egypt has pumped sea water into the alleged “smuggling tunnels” which was situated under Gaza-Egypt border. The tunnels, which were used to smuggle goods such as clothing and several other products into the tightly blockaded enclave were targeted by both Israel and Egypt. The tunnels were also used to smuggle weapons into the besieged enclave.
Ever since the current President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in 2014, by overthrowing former President Mohammed Morsi, hundreds of homes near Rafah and Sinai in the name of having connection with the said tunnels.
