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Hamas tunnels make Israeli ground attack less likely to succeed

The pre-war building boom in Gaza was tunnel-driven

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Gary A Schlueter
Oct 24, 2023
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Green tunnel

    The anomaly of how a building boom could have been going on in Gaza while Israel and Egypt had the country under a tight blockade is answered by a vast network of underground tunnels which criss-cross Gaza and until the war were responsible for real estate prices reaching a per square meter price matching or exceeding the world’s pricies…

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