Israel Weighs Plan to Flood Gaza Tunnels With Seawater

WASHINGTON—Israel has assembled a system of enormous pumps it might use to flood Hamas’s huge community of tunnels beneath the Gaza Strip with seawater, a tactic that would destroy the tunnels and drive the fighters from their underground refuge but in addition threaten Gaza’s water provide, U.S. officers mentioned.

The Israel Protection Forces completed assembling massive seawater pumps roughly one mile north of the Al-Shati refugee camp across the center of final month. Every of not less than 5 pumps can draw water from the Mediterranean Sea and transfer hundreds of cubic meters of water per hour into the tunnels, flooding them inside weeks.