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Originally Posted by blankall
There are different types of tunnels.
There are tunnels going into Egypt that bring supplies. There is a network of tunnels going into Israel that serve no purpose but to allow armed militants to kill Israeli civilians.
Hamas has spent tens of millions of dollars building tunnels into Israel. The only possible reaction to these tunnels is for Israel to find and destroy them. Gazans will die when Israel does this. I'm not sure how anyone can support that.
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If my timeline serves me correctly, the tunnels into Israel came into being at the discovery of the supply tunnels, some of which were closed, harming Gaza's lifeline in combination with the escalated tensions.
I don't want to speak for Arya, but I would assume they support the original purpose of the tunnels used to actually help the Palestinian people, not the underground infiltration tunnels. I could be wrong, and if so, then I disagree with that support, but I too support the original intention of the tunnels. Humanitarian foreign aid cannot support Gaza on it's own, and while the purpose of the blockades is obviously to squeeze the Hamas until they pop, the squeeze is hurting Palestinians, so Hamas did what they had to do.
As I said earlier, Hamas is losing support because of their current inability to bring in supplies for their people, so to me, the blockade method seems to be a good approach, and less dangerous to civilian lives than ground and air assaults.
Were I Israel, I would worry less about rocket stores and Hamas hiding in hospitals and schools, and focus the entirety of my attention on the tunnels, and strengthening the squeeze on Gaza if you want to take over in a less damaging way. It's foolish to bomb out hospitals and school and use reasoning essentially no better than "Hamas dared us to." You can withstand the rocket attacks, so continue to take them, and move your assault where you can hit Hamas harder while avoiding civilians (the tunnels). Bombing hospitals at the hint of a rocket stash turns people harder against you.
Is an assault on the tunnels possible without a ground invasion? I'm honestly not sure, but if you can avoid bombing out civilian building while you do it, then go for it.