Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Technology to Detect Terror Tunnels in Testing Stages

"Terror tunnels have become a major threat to the Jewish state. It seems that Israel, a global high-tech leader, is now making headway in anti-tunnel technology."

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"According to a senior IDF officer, the military is about to carry out comprehensive field tests of technological means for locating tunnels. The technology has already been successfully tested in laboratory conditions.

"If the experiment is successful, the systems will be deployed around Gaza at a cost of a billion to 1.5 billion shekels*.

"The senior officer said that the IDF had received about 700 offers for anti-tunnel systems, and chose two.

"Channel 2 said that the system was made up of sensors that could detect tunnels as they were being dug, as well as existing tunnels."...      More.

* 1 Israeli shekel = 0.264061 U.S. dollars

 
Inside the 'Terror Tunnels' of Gaza  The author draws a moral equivalency between Israel and the Gazans, making no effort to show the blockade is to stop murderous bombers from killing families in their homes and stores.

Hamas Terror Tunnels Lead to Israeli Deaths  "The center-left columnist Ari Shavit seemed to speak for most Israelis when he wrote, "What are we fighting for? Our home. The Jewish people was a people without a home, who managed the impossible, and created a home for itself. The State of Israel is a miracle. We must not give up this miracle. We must not endanger it, and we must not take its existence for granted. When dark forces try to annihilate it, we must defend it. When hypocritical, self-righteous forces try to weaken it, we must make it stronger. We are surrounded by a new threat of Muslim Arab chaos. Enemies seeking our blood amass at our walls.' "

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