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A Year After Gaza War, Israel Tests New Anti-Tunnel Measures

A year after Hamas used cross-border tunnels to launch deadly attacks during the Gaza war, Israel is testing new techniques to detect the hidden passages as a “top priority”, sources say, but has yet to announce the system fully operational.

Beyond standard military secrecy, the reticence to trumpet the measures may be to mask lingering short-falls in the system and avoid giving Israelis a false sense of security as they return to homes near the Gaza Strip abandoned during the war.

Israel has been testing half a dozen technologies for spotting movement or cavities below ground, or the resulting disruption of the earth above, using dummy tunnels in a desert base in southern Israel security sources said.

Foreign geologists and surveillance experts have been helping, the sources said, declining to give more details.

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  • DeClasse' Intellectual

    Why should Israel announce that it has methods to detect tunnels–it would aid only the enemy in their preparations for crimes against humanity! And, there is a numerous ways to sop the usage of said tunnels without endangering Israelis.