Israel's New Anti-Tunnel Technology Apparently Works

IDF forces destroy a cross-border Hamas tunnel on December 9, 2017. (IDF SPOKESMAN'S UNIT)

WATCH: IDF destroys cross-border Hamas tunnel, second in recent weeks

New technology means the terror tunnel threat will become a "thing of the past," according to Liberman. Bennett says, "Those digging tunnels are digging their death trap."

The Israeli army destroyed a large Hamas tunnel which had infiltrated into Israeli territory from Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip, IDF Spokesman Brig-Gen. Ronen Manelis announced on Sunday.

The tunnel, which stretched a few hundred meters into southern Israel, was identified several weeks ago using “unique tools combined with advanced technology, intelligence and operational capabilities,” Manelis said.

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More News On Israel's New Anti-Tunnel Technology

Israel says it destroyed Hamas tunnel using new techniques -- AP
'Tunnel threat will become a thing of the past' -- Arutz Sheva
Analysis Israel's Tunnel-busting Breakthrough Is Robbing Hamas of Its Strategic Weapon -- Haaretz
IDF uncovers cross-border Hamas terror tunnel -- YNet News
Israel says it has destroyed Hamas attack tunnel from Gaza -- Reuters

A News Round-Up On The The Israeli - Hamas Tunnel War

Hamas terror tunnel leading into Israel, exposed by IDF, April 18, 2016 / Courtesy IDF

Jewish Press: Israel’s ‘Iron Mole’ Offers Technological Solution to Terror Tunnels, Boosting IDF Deterrence

Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday announced a new technological breakthrough in Israel’s effort to locate Hamas underground terror tunnels. Speaking after the announcement of the discovery of a terror tunnel reaching 90 feet into Israel from the Gaza Strip, Netanyahu boasted that the breakthrough had occurred only days earlier, making it a light-speed pace between pointing out the need for the technology, in August 2014, and the delivery.

The new technology has been dubbed “Iron Dome for Tunnels,” which JNi.media officially coined ‘Iron Mole,” feel free to share with the proper attribution.

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A News Round-Up On The The Israeli - Hamas Tunnel War

Israel Discovers First Tunnel Built By Hamas Since 2014 -- WSJ
Israel Has Just Destroyed the First Hamas Tunnel Discovered Since the 2014 War -- VICE News
Israel uncovers Hamas tunnel from Gaza, says new war unlikely -- Reuters
Netanyahu: Technological Breakthrough Led to Exposed Hamas Tunnel Between Gaza and Israel -- Haaretz
Israel Eyes US Funding To Detect, Destroy Hamas Tunnels -- Defense News
Analysis: Tunnel-detection techniques limiting Hamas’s attack options -- Jerusalem Post
Israel finds a tunnel, Egypt destroys another, but Hamas is defiant -- Times of Israel
Hamas leader pledges to stick by ‘the rifle and the tunnel’ -- Times of Israel
Hamas: Tunnel found by Israel 'a drop in the bucket' -- Israel Hayom
Hamas builds stronger, more durable tunnels -- YNet
Discovery of Hamas Tunnel Explains the Drums of War - and Politics -- Amos Harel, Haaretz
What's it like to have a tunnel from Gaza near your home? -- Blasting News
Update: Another Hamas Tunnel Collapsed in Gaza Strip, 7 Terrorists Missing (Jewish Press)

Israel Has Developed Technology To Detect Tunnels Being Built At A Distance

An Israeli army officer during an army-organized tour in a tunnel said to be used by Palestinian militants for cross-border attacks. Credit: Jack Guez/Reuters

Washington Free Beacon: Israel Announces Development of System that Can Detect Tunneling at a Distance

Hailed as underground equivalent of Iron Dome.

JERUSALEM—Haunted since last summer’s war in Gaza by Hamas’ success in infiltrating fighters into Israel through tunnels, Israel announced on Thursday the development of the first effective system for detecting tunneling activity at a distance.

One of Israel’s leading defense electronics firms, Elbit Systems, said the system it developed in conjunction with the Israeli Defense Ministry is based on a series of sensors. Data that they furnish is analyzed by a control system, using algorithms. Terming the system “the first of its kind in the world,” the firm said the method enables the precise identification of tunnel building “without false alarms.”

WNU Editor: This technology will have value on the Korean DMZ where North Korea has a long history of building tunnels to the south.

Israel Is Developiong New Technologies To Defeat Hamas's Tunnel Strategy

REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Israel Tests Hi-Tech Tunnel Detection System To Fight Threat From Underground -- The Telegraph

Many bemoan fact that such a large number of tunnels dug by Hamas from Gaza into Israel have gone undetected for so long

Deep in the bowels of Tel Aviv's underground, engineers and scientists recently conducted trials of a new hi-tech detection system that aims to eradicate the threat posed by Hamas's underground tunnels.

As international pressure mounts to end the current round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, and the operation in Gaza continues to claim more and more lives, the IDF is racing against time in order to discover as many tunnels as possible.

But once the IDF withdraws from Gaza, there are currently no mechanisms in place to prevent Hamas and others from digging new tunnels into Israel.

In a bid to find a solution, the IDF's elite Talpiot unit has been working on developing a tunnel detection system which was tested in Tel Aviv. Its costs are estimated to be $59 million.

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My Comment: Tunnel warfare is nothing new .... but developing sophisticated technologies to counter it is. I am sure that many countries are now looking at these Israeli developments to incorporate it into their own military and/or conflict situations. The situation on the Korean peninsula and North Korea's use of tunnels to infiltrate South Korea comes to my mind.