Israel is pumping seawater into Hamas' network of underground tunnels, per the WSJ. It's not a new idea. In 2013, Egypt flooded tunnels connecting Gaza to the Sinai, but with sewage.

A U.N. report last week estimated about 16,000 people had been killed as a result of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza. The IDF said the flooding of tunnels forms part of a range of tools deployed ...

Flood the Gaza Tunnels. Jeff Goodson, RealClearDefense November 1, 2023. AP. The biggest problem confronting Israel in its war on Hamas is how to destroy the Gaza tunnel networks and the terrorist ...

“The Egyptians did this in 2015 in the south,” he added, referring to the flooding of several Gaza tunnel networks in 2013 and 2015, which made them unusable for use by smuggling operations.

Israel has assembled a large system of pumps that may be used to flood tunnels used by militant group Hamas under the Gaza strip in a bid to drive out fighters, the Wall Street Journal reported on ...

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Seven weeks into Israel’s ground operation in Gaza, one of the key challenges facing the Israeli military is the labyrinth of Hamas tunnels that it says spans ...

Flooding Hamas tunnels could harm Gaza’s freshwater for generations, warns academic Experts call on defense establishment to carefully weigh environmental impacts of reported plan to flush ...

Israel floods Hamas tunnels in Gaza. Controlled detonation destroys U.N.-run school for Palestinian refugees. December 13, 2023 at 4:08 a.m. by NAJIB JOBAIN, WAFAA SHURAFA and SAMY MAGDY The ...

Biden said during a news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that there were assertions that no hostages were in Gaza tunnels being flooded with seawater by the Israelis, but ...

In 2021, Hamas claimed to have built 500 kilometers (311 miles) of tunnels under Gaza. To put that in perspective, the Gaza Strip is just 41 kilometers long and up to 12 kilometers wide. CNN is ...

Similarly, Egypt in 2013 began flooding tunnels running underneath its shared border with Gaza, using seawater, sewage water and cement to halt what it said was the smuggling of weapons by ...