Hamas tunnel These Last Days News - July 8, 2024
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Cracking (Or Not) the Hamas-Egyptian Cross-Border Tunnel Mystery - Analysis...

ISRAEL IN FLAMES
Veronica - ... and there's another map. And I see Israel, and countries about it; they're all aflame....
"The wars shall increase, and the carnage shall increase, and those who are living will often envy the dead, so great will be the suffering of mankind.... When he left the Eternal Father he turned to satan, and this is his reward." - Our Lady, June 30, 1984

"MY HOME"
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JPost.com reported on June 30, 2024:

by Yonah Jeremy Bob

Almost seven weeks into the IDF invasion of Rafah, and with major operations there due to being wrapped up any day, the IDF still is far from certain that it has or will find all of the cross-border tunnels between Gaza and Egypt, the Jerusalem Post learned during a visit embedded with IDF forces to the Philadelphi Corridor at the end of last week.

In fact, the estimate for finding and completely destroying all of the cross-border tunnels is likely at minimum six months, but could easily be longer than that.

So far, multiple IDF sources have estimated to the Jerusalem Post that there are at least 25 cross-border tunnels, but these are just initial estimates.

Of all of the tunnel battles the IDF has taken on in Gaza, this is the most important by far because the Philadelphi Corridor is “Hamas’s oxygen” for receiving arms from the outside world, especially from Iran.

October 7 could not have happened without the arms and intelligence training Hamas received through the Philadelphi Corridor.

How can it be that the IDF's progress, while very significant and impressive, could fall significantly short of solving one of the greatest threats to Hamas returning to power?

Doesn’t the IDF, after years of expanding the tunnel special forces unit, Yahalom, and investing billions of dollars in robots, specially trained dogs, customized drones, and a variety of other cutting-edge technologies, have the capabilities to close off this mega-threat?

This is without even getting into the complex geopolitical question, which involves Egypt, the US, the UN, and others, of whether the IDF can prevent Hamas’s return if it withdraws completely from the Philadelphi Corridor.

Even before one gets to that question, if the IDF, currently with full control, cannot root out all of the tunnels, it is hard to see what will stop Hamas from rearming.

Visiting the area up close and discussing the tunnel threat issue with two senior IDF commanders, IDF Col. and Nahal Brigade Commander Yair Zuckerman and IDF Col. and Negev Brigade Commander Elbaz Ivri, the Post got a better understanding of how much harder this job is than most of the public understands.

First of all, when you get to the Philadelphi Corridor, you actually see nothing.

These tunnels are special, long, and deep underground. The only way to really find them is to start with a shaft deep into Rafah, which might have nothing to do with cross-border issues. Then, you excavate and follow every tunnel all the way through to see which ones lead to the border.

IDF sources pointed out tunnel shafts in the Brazil, Shvura, and NPK areas of Rafah to the Post, and all of these were well-concealed and were not immediately obvious to the naked eye.

The Post had to approach the tunnel shafts from multiple angles to pinpoint them and sources indicate that extensive drone observation is poured into this issue.

If finding cross-border tunnels starts deeper in Rafah, and not just on the thinner and shorter Philadelphi Corridor, then the search for them is much larger and more complex.

The cross-border tunnel dilemma would all be a bit easier if the Egyptians were as dedicated to eliminating 100% of cross-border tunnels as the IDF, but IDF sources indicate that they are not.

Why aren’t they? Doesn’t Egypt’s current secular government hate Hamas, which helped the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (the parent movement for Hamas) take over Egypt in the early 2010s, almost dethroned military rule there, and nearly imposed a completely new backward religious regime?

In fact, in 2015, Egypt extensively flooded Hamas’s cross-border tunnels with sea water or sewage, destroyed hundreds of Rafah homes (on the Egyptian side) to remove other tunnels, and in 2019 said that a major military operation destroyed another 37 cross-border tunnels.

The IDF has not disputed that Egypt has taken these actions, so how is it that Hamas in 2024 still has so many tunnels?

A heavy underestimation?

In fairness to the Egyptians, like Israel, they may have underestimated Hamas’s capacity to rebuild.

Once neutralized does not mean completely destroyed, and even once destroyed, does not mean forever destroyed. And old-destroyed does not mean new tunnels will not be almost immediately dug.

A regular message from top IDF officials during this war has been that while they had tremendous intelligence about a vast Hamas tunnel network, they still had no concept of how much bigger, advanced, and longer the tunnels were than their estimate.

If the IDF, which sees Hamas as a serious threat, underestimated the terror group and did not get anywhere near all the tunnels even after wars with Hamas in 2008-9, 2012, 2014, and 2021, then why expect better and perfect results from Egypt?

Those who closely followed the 2012 war with Hamas might recall the IDF’s most proud announcement that it had destroyed Hamas’s “metro” – its most important tunnel network.

The current war made it clear that the IDF’s extensive operation against Hamas in 2021, given that the whole conflict lasted only 11 days, was a mere pinprick against the terror group’s tunnel capacity.

All of this is a generous explanation regarding Egypt.

Turning a blind eye

The less generous explanation is that politics shifted for Egypt between 2015/2019 and 2023/2024.

2015 and even 2019 were closer in time to when Hamas helped the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood against the Egyptian military, and Cairo’s main thought about Hamas was probably still to smash it and any assets, including tunnels, which it had in Egypt.

But at some later point, the politics may have changed.

Most of the world started to see Hamas as a fait accompli that would rule Gaza forever and would need to be dealt with. Egypt’s military regime itself eventually likely started to feel more secure.

Maybe at some point, Egypt’s military regime reached an understanding with Hamas that as long as Cairo preserved certain interests and influence over Gaza’s rulers, the military would look the other way over certain cross-border underground smuggling issues that only negatively impacted Israel.

There is no question that the quantity of criminal smuggling spiked in recent years, and Egypt was doing little to assist Israel in breaking the trend.

If that is true, then Egypt was probably also doing less to crack down on terror smuggling by Hamas.

The Post saw Egypt’s extensive network of watchtowers on the Philadelphi Corridor and while quite useful for spotting any potential above-land invasion, they are nearly useless to combat underground smuggling where the point of origin is deep in Rafah.

IDF sources told the Post that the Egyptians had been embarrassed when confronted with the large number of cross-border tunnels that the IDF had shown them, which Cairo had said no longer existed.

But was it embarrassment in the sense of shock that Hamas had outwitted them? Or was it embarrassment that they understood that the IDF understood that Cairo had decided to look the other way?

Either way, defense sources have indicated that it is not at all clear that Egypt is even eliminating all of the extensions of tunnels that are on its side of the border.

This means that even if Israel eliminates many kilometers of tunnels going from Rafah-Gaza up until the Egyptian border, the continuation of those tunnels may remain neither destroyed nor even neutralized (partially caved in.)

That would make it that much easier for Hamas to reestablish those tunnels if (more likely when) the IDF gives up complete or partial control of the Gaza side of the Philadelphi Corridor or even once the IDF starts to reduce its standing troop presence in Rafah.

With all of that better understood, there is actually very little mystery to the Egypt-Gaza cross-border problem. Absent: several months, if not years, to continue to destroy the tunnels, a jump in cooperation from Egypt, and some way to permanently prevent Hamas from re-digging everything that is destroyed, there should be no expectation that Hamas’s rearmament oxygen will be cut off – it will not.

Rather, the question will be how long will it take Hamas to reconstitute the tunnels sufficiently to start smuggling significant amounts of weapons and will the IDF or whichever third party starts handling aspects of Gaza security try to interdict those weapons at some point within Gaza, or will Hamas rebuild unchallenged.

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WORLD WAR III
"The United States of America is fast approaching on the start of the Third World War. My children, your newspapers and your medias give no account of these secret missions. There are men going from the State's Department back and forth, hinder and yon looking for peace, peace, where there is no peace, and peace where there shall be no peace unless they follow the directions of the Eternal Father and the messages given from Heaven in the past years--not alone on these grounds, My children, of Bayside and Flushing Meadows, but also to various seers, young and old, about the world. The world is crying, peace, peace, and there will be no peace unless the world will recognize My warnings of caution from years ago in earth's time, and they do something about it.
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CONSECRATE RUSSIA
"The fast trod of these hoofs come from, My child, the Apocalypse! The red horse is war! And war is in the balance next, My child. And what can you do about this? This is My direction from Heaven—and We hope, My children, that you will get this out to the world—unless the bishops and the Holy Father in unity with all the bishops of the world—unless they consecrate Russia to My Mother's Immaculate Heart, the world will be doomed! Because Russia will continue to spread her errors throughout the world, rising up wars and carnage and pestilence and famine." - Jesus, June 17, 1989

ONE INDIVIDUAL
"And one individual, in darkness of spirit and insanity of sin, shall set mankind into a major War that shall bring about the destruction and annihilation of nations and shall burn and set fires upon earth that shall consume the skin from the bodies of mankind, and skin will dry up and blow off of the bones as if it had never been!" - Our Lady, May 28, 1977

SCOFFERS WHO SAY THERE WILL NOT BE A WW III
"Do not be slowed down in your endeavors by scoffers, those who say there will not be a Third World War. Are they God? Oh no, they will know what it is to see blackened bodies along the roadside, their children, stomachs distended with starvation. 'This cannot happen here in the United States,' I hear voices saying. O My children, it will!" - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

NUCLEAR WARHEADS, MISSILES
Veronica - Over on the left side, I see... I know it's Africa. It's all in flames. I've seen the flames before, but this is horrible. They're going wild; they all look dark - skinned, yet they're killing each other.
Jesus - "My child, you see war, the beginning of a war. It will be father against son, mother against daughter, and satan will be in their midst. Those who have the power are exercising it now in the wrong direction, My children. Better that they take the monies coming to them from out of the world, better that they try to construct a country with joy and happiness and peace among the brothers.
     "Thou shalt not kill, and yet you kill. Thou shalt not bear witness, and you condemn others to death with your testimony. Where is your love that you call out for? Love, My children, how many of you know the true meaning of love? Love is in giving, love is kindness; love is not murder, love is not selling your soul to the devil for power. Many of the rulers throughout the world are doing this now.
     "Nuclear warheads, missiles, all manner of contraptions: what dignified name can I give to them, My children? They are destruction to all mankind. I repeat again: If you commit this to come upon you, there will soon be no flesh left. My child and My children, and those who hear Our pleadings, Our hearts are extended to you to help Us to save mankind from his own course of destruction. You have very little time to do this in, My children. I assure you, your time is running out.
     "My Mother, for many earth-years, has acted with Her heart to protect you. How many times the heavy hand of the Eternal Father reached down to start out the calamities with the Ball, and how many times did Our Lady rush forward. How many times did My Mother rush forward to save you? The world knows My Mother, but they cast Her aside. And those who are agents of hell now, demons in human form, they cannot be retrieved; their abode will be hell. But sad to say, it hurts My heart to know that I cannot be rid of these thorns that I am forced to accept for your salvation." - July 25, 1985

RUSSIA & CHINA
"Wars are a punishment for man's sins. Syria holds the key to peace at this time. However, I place in front of you, My children, a graphic picture for you to understand. It will be a parable for some, and some will turn away not willing to hear what Heaven has to say in these desperate times."
Veronica - Our Lady is pointing up with Her finger, like this, to Her right side, and high above Her the sky is opening up--all the clouds are floating away and the sky is opening up, and I see a map of the Mideast. And then Our Lady is pointing up farther and that's another map of China and Russia. Our Lady is turning back now; She was looking upward also.
Our Lady - "My child and My children, there are scoffers who will say there shall not be a Third World War. They do not know and cannot conceive of the plan of the Eternal Father. Be it known now that the Father has great heart for all His children, but when the sin reaches a peak only known to the Father, the amount of sin among mankind, then the Father will take action. He will allow you to go upon your reprobate way until there will be few souls to save upon earth, for the others will have died in battle and also at the hands of a corrupt generation of the young." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

SHALL ENGULF THE NATIONS
"Day by day man is killing now. Many countries shall be embroiled in wars, until we have the greatest war ever seen, nor shall ever be seen again, the Third World War, which shall engulf the nations. And many nations shall disappear from the force of the armaments being gathered now throughout Russia.
   "Yes, My child, no matter how the world reacts to the truth, you will shout it from the rooftops that Russia has not accepted any overtures from Rome. Unless Russia can be dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Jesus and Mary, unless they will recognize the truth, they will continue to go throughout the world sowing seeds of discord, discontentment, and war. You know, My children, that war is a punishment for man's sins, but also, war is an indication of the loss of the knowledge of God." - Our Lady, August 21, 1985

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