Hamas Focuses on Rebuilding Tunnels as Gazans Suffer

[King_David]

Hamas' focus on reconstructing its tunnels, while ignoring the lack of housing in Gaza points to the military wing's dominance in the organization.
By: Shlomi Eldar, Columnist for Al-Monitor
Al-Monitor

Hamas’ military wing has been vigorously repairing the damage from last summer's Operation Protective Edge in the Gaza Strip, including investing great efforts in rebuilding its system of tunnels. The first such public indication of this was the arrest this week of three Israelis — two businessmen and a resident of a community on the Gaza periphery. The three men are suspected of having supplied Hamas with metal bars and sheet metal for construction, electric and electronic devices, communications equipment and various other industrial materials that were smuggled clandestinely into Gaza.

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The charges filed against them March 2 at the Beersheba District Court allege that the defendants built a business infrastructure to fund the smuggling, involving purchases as well as payments, via several banks in the West Bank in a bid to circumvent the tight supervision of commodities entering Gaza. It is claimed that the three concealed prohibited equipment inside containers whose content was authorized for transit, thereby bypassing inspection. Their arrest provided Israel with proof of Hamas' motivation and rapid regrouping to revive its tunnel project, which is also an indication of preparations for the next armed confrontation with Israel.




http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/03/06/hamas-focuses-on-rebuilding-tunnels-as-gazans-suffer

[msongs]

1. israel should quit making the gazans suffer in the first place. then no tunnels would be needed nt

[COLGATE4]

2. Gazans should quit making the Gazans suffer by reining in

Hamas and its rocket attacks on Israel.

[shira]

6. So it's okay Hamas is building terror tunnels, b/c of Israel

Better that they prepare to attack Israelis rather than build homes and schools.

Correct?

They also use child-labor to build those tunnels.

Do u support all that?

[djean111]

3. Why bother with rebuilding homes when they will just be destroyed or seized again?

[leftynyc]

4. Not a surprise at all

hamas never cared about Gazans. They're terrorists so expecting them to act like civilized human beings is like banging your head against the wall.

[shira]

5. Hamas is using heavy machinery to accelerate the construction of 'attack tunnels' in Gaza

http://www.businessinsider.com/hamas-building-attack-tunnels-throughout-gaza-2015-4

[leftynyc]

8. None of this is surprising

to anyone with a brain. Hamas has never denied being terrorists - in fact they're given parades. Perhaps this is why aid has been so slow to get to the Palestinians - maybe the donors know it wont be going to build schools, hospitals, buy medical supplies, textbooks or anything else of a positive nature.

[shira]

7. This is more evidence the Israel-Sucks-Brigade couldn't care less for Palestinians

Not only do they say they're pro-Palestinian, but they say they're anti-war too.

Can't make this up.