TUNNELS Of TERRORIsrael could lose hundreds of troops in bloodbath battle through booby-trapped maze of tunnels when they storm Gaza
ISRAELI troops face a bloodbath battle through a maze of booby-trapped tunnels when they storm Gaza, intelligence documents reveal.
Soldiers will be ordered into 300 miles of hellish rat-runs dubbed “The Gaza Metro”.
UNDERGROUND WARFARE
Hamas has a tunnel system hidden under the ground.
Military experts warned that the daunting underground mission against heavily armed Hamas terrorists will cost hundreds of Israeli lives.
But it must be completed to stop Hamas springing deadly surprise attacks during the planned occupation of their Gaza City stronghold.
Troops will also be hunting Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, believed to be cowering in the nightmarish labyrinth.
ISRAELI ASSAULT
They will send in small drones and robots to map out enemy positions and beam live pictures back to intelligence teams.
The dossier, collated by the Intelligence Directorate’s Document Collection and Technological Gathering Division, predicts tunnels will be scattered with false turns and explosive traps.
Whole sections are believed to have been mined and designed to collapse on intruders.
Hamas killers have also been trained in “shoot and scoot” raids — opening fire before fleeing in the hope of drawing enemy forces to their doom.
Hamas has built 40 tunnels under the Gaza border as well as a fearsome defensive network under Gaza City.
These allow them to lie in wait in underground command posts and living quarters, encased in reinforced concrete up to 40ft below the blitzed streets.
Plans detailed in an intelligence dossier seen by The Sun reveals the Israeli assault on the warren will start with the dropping of bunker-buster Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs.
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