The progress made by IDF forces in the Iron Swords War revealed that Hamas had dug at least 500 kilometers of tunnels in the Gaza Strip, some of which jeeps could cross.
According to various reports, this situation led to the beginning of the use of powerful pumps that pump seawater into these tunnels in order to fill them and cause them to collapse on the terrorists of the murderous Hamas terrorist organization, who are hiding and barricading themselves in them.
From the outset, even before these latest reports, elements around the world, including respected media outlets, dealt with the question of how it is militarily possible to deal with such an extensive tunnel system without causing a large number of casualties by our forces.
Will it lead to the dramatic move? Businessman Eric Prince, Photo: David Walters
A large in-depth article on the subject appeared in The Times of London, which examined the reality and possible solutions to this complex situation.
In this context, the newspaper revealed that American businessman Eric Prince arrived in Israel on his own initiative, immediately after October 7. Prince, who once founded private security companies for veterans of U.S. special forces, is considered a red flag by the Democratic administration, largely because his fighters were convicted of committing horrific crimes against civilians during their stay in Iraq.
Nevertheless, Prince offered the Israeli defense establishment to buy from him his sophisticated mining system and assemble sophisticated seawater pumps to help flood Hamas tunnels with seawater.
The idea of filling the tunnels with seawater and sewage was considered even before Prince's arrival by the Israeli defense establishment. However, the IDF's military and political leadership is hesitant to use such a system, according to the Times, both because of the risk to Israeli abductees held captive by Hamas in Gaza and who are apparently being held inside the tunnels, and because of the enormous environmental damage that can be caused by such flooding.
This is damage to Gaza's freshwater aquifer, which will be flooded with salty seawater, making it impossible to pump drinking water from it, and also due to damage to Gaza's agricultural land, which may become uncultivatable.
Such an attempt, which indeed caused great damage to the land, was made at the time by Egypt, which pumped seawater into the smuggling tunnels into the Gaza Strip dug by smugglers and Hamas. Farmers in southern Gaza complained to Egypt about significant damage to their land caused by this flooding.
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