Israel targeting technology to stop Gaza tunnels – Brazil Post

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Israel is preparing to build a network of sensors to try to detect tunneling into its territory from the Gaza Strip, but it may take months to see if the technology works, said an official of high rank Army this Monday! Monday.

Meanwhile, the Army may again invade the Palestinian enclave to destroy any tunnels to find or think are being made, said other authority in order to calm fears Israelis living near the Gaza border.

Israeli ground forces invaded Gaza last month to demolish a series of underground passages that Islamic Hamas dug to infiltrate the border.

The army claims to have destroyed 32 of them, but some believe that also serve as shelters and weapons caches remain intact.

After more than a decade of failed attempts to develop ways to reveal the tunnels, an authority the Army said the military was preparing to place sensors on the perimeter of Gaza.

The Army expects these mechanisms not only can detect tunnels under construction, but others have done.

In a bulletin to reporters, the military, who would not reveal the name, said the sensors are amplified by physical obstacles placed along the border of 68 kilometers.

He did not describe the technology, but said tests that the coming months will show whether the system is ready to be used. Previous experiments have used seismic detectors.

Underlining the anxiety of Israel to overcome the problem, the military said an Israeli delegation even traveled to Vietnam in 2002 to try to understand how Americans dealt with the guerrilla tunnels the war fought in the 1960s and 1970s.

During the recent war started on July 8, militants infiltrated Israel several times and killed five soldiers in a surveillance post.

The senior commander in the south front of Israel, Major General Sami Turgeman, said it may take months before the technology of sensors pass the test.

“Until then, I suggest that every time you discover that the enemy is building a tunnel, go into the area to destroy it, “said turgeman the Israelis living near the border with Gaza.

One of the fears of Israel about the tunnels is to be used to kidnap its citizens, as happened in 2006, when Gilad Shalit was kidnapped and held hostage for five years, being released in exchange for a thousand Palestinians held in Israeli prisons.