Counter-terrorism: Iran tunnel tech terrorizes Israel
Israel
believes Iran is now helping Hezbollah to build tunnels under the
Lebanese border. The evidence is piling up and an effort is underway to
find and breach one and examine it.
Since the 50 Day War with Hamas
ended last August in Gaza Israel has been examining the massive amounts
of evidence it collected in the 32 Hamas tunnels into Israel that were
discovered and destroyed.
Comparing notes with the CIA and other Western
intel agencies it was determined that these tunnels were of a new
design probably supplied by Iran.
Apparently nearly $100 million of the
aid Iran supplied to Hamas to help the Palestinians instead went into
building these elaborate tunnels. Israel determined that each of these
tunnels required 350 truckloads of construction material and were built
to specifications similar those described by agent reports of such
tunnels inside Iran.
Israel believes that Hamas is already resumed building new
tunnels into Israel.
This time the Israelis expect to have an easier
time detecting them when the digging crosses the border. The first time
around Iranian advisors have taught Hamas well how to keep the tunnel
construction secret and even Israeli informants inside Gaza were not
able to obtain many details.
The Israelis knew such tunnels existed but
little else before the 50 Day War. This was apparently because of
Iranian help in counterintelligence (defeating enemy espionage efforts).
Israel had their suspicions and that was one reason Israel sent troops
(and intelligence specialists to collect evidence) in during July 2014.
The cross border tunnels can be a powerful weapon, if you can
keep them secret. So far none of Israel’s enemies have been able to do
that. But Hamas came close in Gaza and that shook up the Israelis quite a
bit and both sides are making more efforts in this area.
Israel cannot
afford to lose this battle, because undetected tunnels can be used to
launch terror raids and, worse, kidnap Israelis and hold them for
ransom.
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