WASHINGTON—Israel has assembled a system of enormous pumps it may use to flood Hamas’s huge community of tunnels underneath the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that might destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but additionally threaten Gaza’s water provide, U.S. officers mentioned.
The Israel Protection Forces completed assembling giant seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp across the center of final month. Every of at the least 5 pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and transfer 1000’s of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them inside weeks.
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