From Times Online:Israel’s target is the underground army of Hamas.
FOR a week the Israeli air force attacked the militant Islamic group Hamas in Gaza in the hope of destroying its ability to launch rockets that have menaced Israeli cities. The strikes failed.
Despite the destruction wreaked on Gaza, Hamas was yesterday still able to fire off 30 missiles against Israel, some capable of reaching cities 25 miles from Gaza.
Hamas had been preparing for months for exactly the present conflict. A senior Hamas militant described last week how they had changed their rocket-launching operations to survive the expected Israeli air assault.
Previously Hamas military units would trundle vehicles to a site and fire off a rocket – a near-suicidal action if, as last week, Israeli drones, jets and helicopters were patrolling Gazan skies. Instead, the Hamas official said, his men had dug tunnels and run lengths of detonation wire so that they could launch from a distance.
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My Comment: This is not as big of an advantage that Hamas would like to paint it as. Israeli soldiers, when coming across a tunnel are simply going to blow it and everyone inside with explosives.
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