IDF official: Gaza tunnel-stopper nearly finished

A senior military official says a massive underground barrier being built along the Gaza border to defend against Hamas tunnels should be completed in a matter of months.

The Southern Command official says the structure will include a wall deep below the ground as well as flooding parts of the roughly 60-kilometer (40-mile) border.

Cranes and other machinery are seen on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza Strip, on September 8, 2016. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
Cranes and other machinery are seen on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza Strip, on September 8, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity under military briefing regulations, says the goal is to turn Hamas’s underground network into a “death trap.”

During the 2014 war, Hamas fighters managed on several occasions to make their way into Israel through a tunnel network.

— Agencies

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