Why, Hamas and Hezbollah, of course! Everyone knows that. Especially the Murdoch press:
"The Israeli military launched an operation yesterday to 'expose and thwart' tunnels built by Hezbollah that it said stretched from Lebanon into northern Israel... 'We see Hezbollah's activities as a flagrant and blatant violation of Israeli sovereignty,' said military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus. 'This activity is another example of the negative effects of Iranian entrenchment in the region'." (Israeli troops unleash on Hezbollah tunnels, AP, The Australian, 5/12/18)
The world's most innocent bystander could never, in a million years, dream up such a fiendish thing as the dreaded 'terror tunnel'!
Oh, wait:
"An explosion was heard* by the Coldstream [Guards] in [their] Citrus House [headquarters] emanating from a building across the road, opposite the gate. The dead body of a man was found near the entrance of a tunnel which began in the basement of the building and led in the direction of Citrus House... The Coldstream Regimental History states: 'The IZL [Irgun Zvai Leumi] had decided to blow up Citrus House'... Terrorist tunneling had been discounted by those who thought they knew, because the predominant sandy nature of the earth was considered a barrier to any such operation." (A Captain's Mandate: Palestine 1946-1948, Philip Brutton, 1996, p 99)
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It is essentially impossible to find online any unbiased description of the use of the tunnels by Hamas in 2014. There is a lot by the IDF saying that Hamas intended to use the tunnels for a mass attack on civilians but, if you read this carefully - and skip the Israeli propaganda, you will find that Hamas only used the tunnels to kill members of the IDF (11 in total if I read correctly):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_tunnel_warfare_in_the_Gaza_Strip
The IDF on the other hand was far more indiscriminate. Meanwhile our state funded ABC can allow someone to write utter rubbish like this:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-07-25/falkenstein-hamas-makes-civilian-casualties-a-tragic-certainty/5624470
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