Posted on 12/05/2023 4:38:16 AM PST by caww
I think they should have done that at the beginning. That would have helped prevent the suffering of those hostages still held, as well as preserving the normal person infrastructure above ground. If they do this now I think the result will be that the ground will be salted because all the cracks in destroyed tunnels will just flood the land with sea water.
Good, drown those Hamas rats.
“A lot depends on percolation and soil mechanics. It could well cause buildings to collapse.”
IDK but isn’t most of that area composed of sandstone, the softest of stone? I know from past reading that at some point water soaked sandstone just starts to crumble.
Flooding the tunnels could make Gaza uninhabitable.
Well, that’s true. But I was assuming the murderers took hostages to bargain for their own prisoners, who are held in Israel.
“Why talk about it? Just DO it!”
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THIS 100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pump the water in, let it do it’s job, then pump the water out!
As good a reason for the IDF to take no prisoners as any...
Why not just leave the water in the tunnels?
What's the downside?
The key assumption here is whatever Israel does to the tunnels, hostages are going to die and Israel will be blamed for it. Given that, just make those hostages martyrs, build monuments to them for their great sacrifice destroying global terrorism and then flatten Gaza.
Funny how no Arab country is stepping up to take in the Palestinians caught in the cross-fire. Easiest thing would be to move them to Sinai and build them a new country which they can call Palestine. Even better, build it as a green country using only alternative energy sources and materials. Move the UN there and make the new Palestine the green model for all the world to behold.
And on the day of the new countries inception and UN vote, nuke the place from orbit, just to be sure.
I am pretty damn near certain of one thing: The IDF has consulted expert civil engineers who understand the geology and soil mechanics of the region far better than almost anyone, like yours truly, speculating on the internet.
But speculation is fun.
It looks like the primary rock type isn’t sandstone, it’s the harder conglomerate that they have lining the older tunnels with the masonry you see in images that have later cast concrete reinforcing, with the uniform arches that you see so much in the images. But they say they have destroyed 500 tunnels as of yesterday, and when they show them destroying tunnels on the news it is done by blowing them up.
The surrounding countries say they don’t want to take Palestinians in because then Israel will take over the land, but that doesn’t really explain why they have failed to take in some of them, as the news says that Gaza is more crowded than New Dehli.
I don't think the other Arab countries want stateless murderers running around in THEIR countries, either
Depend on it... Hamas and Hezbollah are barely tolerated in the Iraqi and Iranian countries.
If (or, if EVER) the murderers are successful against Israel, maybe the other Arab countries will get off dead center about their sympathies toward Hamas and Hezbollah
“But speculation is fun.”
Isn’t it though!
When I think about flooding the tunnels in Gaza I see the ground slumping down over a period of years and buildings starting to lean this way and that. This slow destruction gives the populace time to scuttle to safer ground as the buildings slowly reach the tipping point and fall over like Chinese high rises. Children crying and women wailing in the background as men yell and scream. Delicious!
Yes, I’m sure the IDF equivalent of the US Army Corps of Engineers is well aware of the results of flooding the tunnels. It is their bailiwick after all.
Leaning towers of Gaza.
GOOD.
Spectacular idea!
My former prospective father-in-law was a civil engineer in southeastern Virginia (Virginia Beach). Beautiful area, but all the large buildings sit on piles driven about 300 feet in the ground. I suspect that Gaza would recover, regardless, but hunkering down in tunnels like those is militarily suicidal. All it does is spare you from the immediate effects of artillery and airstrikes. Eventually you have to come up and defend the entrances and ventilation system or die.
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