Israel wants the sensors around Gaza – Expressen

Israel’s goal is to destroy attack the tunnels from Gaza to Israel cost hundreds civilians and children life.

Now Israel wants to install a system of sensors around Gaza to detect tunnels without invading the area.

But the technology has been around a long time, which Israel should have known .

Israel is preparing to build a network of sensors to detect tunneling between the Gaza Strip and Israel, said a senior army officer on Monday, according to Reuters.

To emphasize the problem weight said the officer, who did not state their name, a delegation from Israel visited Vietnam in 2002 to learn how America’s military handled the enemy tunnels during the Vietnam War.

What technology at issue in Israel were not disclosed. Previous experiments should have focused on the seismic sensors. And it requires testing for a few months to ensure that the sensors is in operation, said Major General Sami Turgeman.

– Until then, I suggest that every time we discover that the enemy is building a tunnel, so we go in and destroys it, he said.

The Israeli army claims that the offensive in Gaza meant that 32 tunnels were destroyed. But it is likely that tunnels and weapons caches remain underground.

Israel’s ground offensive against the tunnels, which claimed hundreds of civilian lives, including many women and children, had perhaps been avoided. Israel has namely long had knowledge of the existence of technology that could detect tunnels.

writes Janine Zacharia, former Jerusalem Chief of The Washington Post, in an article in the same journal.

She lines up examples, where, among others, a geological expert for a decade to have expressed the view that geological expertise can have the knowledge to detect tunnels. He received no response.

A Canadian expert on detecting voids under ground will several years ago in vain have proved the Israeli military how to map the tunnel threat.

And a British firm has Also, according to Janine Zacharia, a system that can see more than 30 meters into the ground. The cost of the firm’s founder describes as “a drop in the ocean.”

Israel reportedly refrained to invest in these systems at the border with Gaza, as they should have been considered a partial solution: Tunnels on Palestinian land would not be detected.

This summer was the result of Israel had failed to destroy the tunnels before a ground invasion after Hamas used the tunnels for attacks on Israeli soil.

According to the UN, 1,948 Palestinians died during the conflict. Some 72 percent are estimated to have been civilians. 67 people have died on the Israeli side, most of them soldiers.

The current 72-hour ceasefire is on Tuesday entered its second day. Negotiations on a long-term ceasefire agreement going on in Egypt, but according to data to AFP not have achieved results.