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October 10, 2016

Has the Threat Posed by Terror Tunnels Been Exaggerated?

Expensive underground walls don’t make strategic sense.

In the 2014 Gaza war, Hamas managed to dig tunnels allowing it to attack Israeli communities from its own territory and now seems to be investing substantial effort in creating a new network of tunnels in preparation for the next war. In response, Israel’s defense ministry has announced plans to build an expensive subterranean wall around Gaza. Efraim Inbar argues that is an overreaction:

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