"Everything was shrouded in mystery.
A complicated system of tunnels contains the Hamas management center and is a place where hostages are held.
In such conditions, freeing the prisoners becomes a 'suicide mission'.
Nobody will send counter-terrorists to certain death, because there would be traps waiting for them.
What distinguishes Hamas tunnels from al-Qaeda tunnels in the mountains of Afghanistan or Viet Cong tunnels in the jungles of Southeast Asia is that the underground network lies
beneath one of the most densely populated areas on the planet.
Almost 2 million people live in an area of 88 square miles (227.92 square kilometers).
In 2021, Hamas reported that it had built tunnels that
would be up to 500 kilometers long.
Yochewed Lifshitz, a freed Hamas hostage, told the Jerusalem Post that she was led through a network of underground tunnels that 'resembled a spider's web'.
The trail was supposed to stretch for kilometers and it took about 3 hours to complete the entire route.
'There must be a hard, brutal calculation here'
The expert - participant of the missions in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq - estimates that
the mission to rescue the hostages hidden in the tunnels under the Gaza Strip would be very risky.
'Everyone is calculating.
The safety of rescuers, in this case counterterrorists, is important.
No one will send them to certain death, because traps, ambushes and thousands of misfortunes would await them'.
He adds that the tunnels are very well secured and 'just waiting' for the super commandos to appear. -'
But it would be a suicide mission, no one is likely to decide to do it.
Even despite the pressure from the hostages' families.
There must be a hard, brutal calculation here' - he emphasizes
.
Palestinian side has been preparing for many months, even several years, and the tunnels are drilled to a depth of several dozen meters.
'When they were built, everything was shrouded in mystery.
This is not one series of underground corridors, but they are definitely interconnected', he says.
'Bombardment will not help, and venturing into the tunnels is fraught with great risk.
There are units that specialize in such activities, but all this is not simple'.
As the colonel emphasizes, something like an underground town has been created under Gaza, with hospitals, logistic centers and equipment.
'And an opponent is willing to sacrifice his life -
it is the worst opponent that there can be' -
says the expert, describing the actions of Hamas."
Skomplikowany system tuneli, a w nich centrum zarządzania Hamasu i miejsce przetrzymywania zakładników. W takich warunkach, jak mówi WP płk Andrzej Kruczyński, uwolnienie więzionych staje się "misją samobójczą".
wiadomosci.wp.pl
From my country's MSM
