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On December 12, local time, according to the informed United States***, Israeli invading forces are trying to pour seawater into the Gaza tunnel system, and the Israeli side informed the United States that they have begun "cautious testing" of "flooding some tunnels in Gaza with seawater on a limited basis" to test the ability to destroy the tunnel network in the area on a larger scale.
It is reported that the intention of the Israeli invading forces is to pour seawater into the designated tunnel branches in order to force the Hamas defenders to gather in the Israeli army's area of operation and at the same time completely destroy the tunnel system. The only question they are worried about is whether there are still missing hostages in the flooded tunnels, and the reconnaissance units of the Israeli invading army have previously learned through technical means that there should be no hostages in these tunnels that are about to be flooded, but the Israeli army top brass does not dare to accept this ticket.
However, from the point of view of the local population of Gaza, the Israeli invading army's practice of filling the tunnels with seawater would be catastrophic, because of the existence of fresh underground water resources in the Gaza Strip and the tunnel system throughout the Gaza Strip, once the sea water fills the tunnels, it is very likely that it will seep into the fresh groundwater, and the freshwater intake points in the Gaza Strip may be scrapped. It is not yet possible whether the resulting destruction of the hydrological environment of the Gaza Strip will have an impact on other ecological areas. Due to the corrosive nature of the sea, whether the Gaza tunnel system will collapse after flooding, and whether it will cause subsidence and collapse of buildings or streets on the ground, is also closely related to the residents of the Gaza Strip, but for the Israeli invading forces, they are not considering this aspect at all.
At present, the biggest supporter behind Israel is Biden of the United States, but Biden is also cautious about the Israeli army's practice of flooding tunnels: "On the issue of flooded tunnels, I can't say anything at will - some people assert that they are very sure that there are no hostages in these tunnels, but I don't know if this is true." Biden said that day, "But I know that every civilian death is an absolute tragedy."
The current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has lasted for more than two months, and the Israeli military's actions have developed from the initial indiscriminate air strikes, to brutal street fighting on the ground, and now even to the beginning of the attempt to flood the tunnel. From one point of view, it shows that the war is becoming more and more brutal and more anxious. But from another point of view, the resistance in the Gaza Strip is still resisting stubbornly, otherwise the aggressors would not have become so frenzied. Today, behind Israel, only Uncle Sam of the United States is alone, and behind the Hamas Resistance Army in the Gaza Strip, there are more than 100 countries on the voting board of the United Nations General Assembly supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. When will mad Israel stop their bloody revenge, and when will the Gaza Strip return to that fragile peace?
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