What lies in wait for Israeli ground troops in Gaza, security sources say, is a Hamas tunnel network hundreds of kilometres long and up to 80 metres deep, described by one freed hostage as “a spider’s web” and by one expert as the “Viet Cong times 10”.
The Palestinian Islamist group has different kinds of tunnels running beneath the sandy 360-sq-km coastal strip and its borders - including attack, smuggling, storage and operational burrows, Western and Middle East sources familiar with the matter said.
The United States believes Israel’s special forces will face an unprecedented challenge having to battle Hamas militants while trying to avoid killing hostages held below ground, a U.S. official said.
So seriously what good are you expecting to come out of this armed conflict.
I can tell you, nothing. Absolutely nothing. You can’t expect people to be content when they are subject to constant bombardment, that they have lost the roof over their heads, that they lost loved ones are living in makeshift tents struggling every day to find food or clean drinking water, fuel or even electricity.
I am pretty sure that your life is rather comfortable, you have never experienced any of those, and I am surprised by the lack of empathy in you. You know on the other side of the fence there are also human beings which don’t differ so much from you or me. What about the trauma so many kids would endure, the pain, the lost childhood, etc. And unfortunately as a reaction there would be even more radicalization.
And in Israel, I can only imagine that far right parties would become a lot more popular, people would get radicalized. Yes, people are getting radicalized on both sides. The difference is that on one side kids are killed for throwing stones, on the other settlers killing Palestinians are not even brought to court or giving effective sentences. How exactly are you expecting people to be content with those double standards. What is the most troublesome thing in my mind is that the West isn’t condemning the atrocities they are committing against Palestinians. Yes, what Hamas did is horrid, but in a way what Israel is doing is even worse.
And just for perspective, the armed wing of Hamas is 30K, out of 2.4M, do the math, why should the entire population of Gaza suffer?!!
You’re absolutely right. Nothing good is going to come.
Last chance I thought of any chance of good coming died with Rachel Corrie.
Wrong about the life tho. I’m a disabled veteran and lived in more countries than I have fingers to count with. Hardship is a part of life. Chop wood, carry water.
Both sides have backed themselves into a corner with no winners and my sympathy has run out after interacting with those that claim they are the innocents but actually support Hamas behind closed doors.
If there was a way to erase the mind virus of racism and religion maybe that could end this conflict. But short of God coming down or aliens showing up and saying the holy books are myth and having time travel to prove it how could that be done? It’s the world we live in and it is going to get worse before it gets better.