Israeli army admits to sending "large volumes of water" into tunnels used by Hamas in Gaza. The aim is to "neutralize" them, ensuring that it did not compromise access to water of civilian population.
Hamas has a vast network of tunnels in Gaza, from which its fighters can emerge to fire their rockets towards Israeli soil. The maze of galleries dug by Hamas under the Gaza Strip was first used to circumvent the blockade imposed by Israel after Hamas took power in this territory in 2007. The Israeli press had cited Israeli sources indicating that the army planned to flood the galleries with seawater pumped from the Mediterranean.