Supplies through Egypt to Hamas

[727Sky]

As many as 50 to 80 (depends on who is reporting) tunnels from Gaza to Egypt has been discovered along the buffer zone between Egypt and Gaza. Many of these tunnels are large enough to drive a delivery truck through. 
 
Israel could not figure out how Hamas had so many missiles to keep firing at Israel but now the answer is before them..
 
Egypt has a peace treaty with Israel and for anyone to believe Egypt did not know of the supplies and tunnels to Hamas from Egypt to Gaza has to be dumber than a....no one could be that dumb IMO !
 
The only question is how far up does this knowledge go in the Egyptian government ?

I personally believe it goes to the top as Egypt did not want Israel to occupy the Philadelphia buffer Zone and thus discover the tunnels.

[Maxmars]

Lacking reliable sources, I have to ask about the age of the tunnels, and other things to indicate whether these are new contruction (which would necessitate Egyptian "participation" since any such activity in Gaza would have been detected.) If they are "older" the Egyptians could have been unaware... or rather, the Egyptian government could have been unaware - because somebody was using it.)

I feel for all those people litterally trapped by this violence.  It is a horrible fate.

[727Sky]

Hamas plan to start a shooting war between Egypt and Israel foiled

[FlyersFan]

There have been "secret" tunnels between Egypt and Gaza for decades.
Munitions and guns and supplies have been smuggled through them.
Egypt doesn't care.  Israel cares but can't do anything about them.
I'm sure that won't ever stop.

[727Sky]

It would appear the F-35 is working as advertised

[727Sky]

Russia has strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of Syria's Aleppo. Vladimir Putin's government warned Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu after the strikes. Moscow said that these aggressive actions could lead to extremely dangerous consequences. On June 3, Israeli airstrikes hit the outskirts of Aleppo, killing at least 16 people. According to media reports, most of those killed near Aleppo were pro-Iran fighters.

[putnam6]

Obviously, there is a huge black market economy between Gaza and Egypt the question is what and how much do Egypt leaders know? 

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FWIW

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt...nels-rafah

 
Secret military documents obtained by Middle East Eye reveal the scale of Egyptian operations to destroy tunnels between the Sinai peninsula and Gaza built to circumvent the Israel-imposed blockade of the enclave.

According to the documents that MEE is publishing in full, more than 2,000 tunnels were destroyed by military engineers in the border city of Rafah between 2011 and 2015.

They also reveal that senior members of the armed forces ordered a feasibility study into a proposal to dig a canal along the entire border with Gaza as an alternative to destroying the tunnels.

The documents, leaked by an army insider, offer a rare insight into the military’s extensive operations in the North Sinai governorate.

The government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is highly secretive about its activities in Rafah and has imposed a media blackout in the region since 2013 where it has waged a brutal and destructive operation against local militants aligned with the Islamic State (IS) group.

It has never released official details about the destruction of tunnels.
According to the documents, all the tunnels destroyed during the period they covered were designated as commercial or transport tunnels.
 
The revelations come to light following the closure of the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza after an Israeli operation on 7 May and raise questions about Israeli criticism of Egypt's alleged failure to eliminate smuggling tunnels used by Palestinian armed groups.
 
Israeli officials have said weapons used in Hamas’s attack in southern Israel on 7 October were smuggled into Gaza via tunnels from Egypt.

 
Diaa Rashwan, a government spokesperson, said Egypt had also built a concrete wall along the entire border, six metres overground and six metres underground, which he said made it "impossible to smuggle weapons”.
Egyptian army spokesmen have previously put the number of tunnels destroyed at about 3,000. In 2018, a military spokesperson said some of the tunnels destroyed reached a depth of 30 metres underground.