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'Israel considers flooding Gaza tunnels with seawater'
The Philippine Star
|December 06, 2023
GAZA (Reuters) – Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza Strip in a bid to drive out fighters, The Wall Street Journal reported on Dec. 4, citing US officials.
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Around the middle of November, Israel’s army completed the set-up of at least fi ve pumps about 1.6 kilometers north of the Al-Shati refugee camp that could move thousands of cubic meters of seawater per hour, fl ooding the tunnels within weeks, the report said.
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