ARUTZ SHEVA
by Ari Yashar
July 22, 2015

Senior IDF officials reveal that new system funded by US aid is on the way to turn the tide on Hamas tunnels

In a rare interview with CNN on Wednesday, senior IDF officials revealed they are testing a new tunnel detection system with the help of American military aid meant to thwart Hamas’s sophisticated terror attack tunnel network into Israeli territory, which the Islamist group is busily rebuilding by siphoning off humanitarian aid material. The IDF was surprised at how advanced the Hamas tunnels were in Operation Protective Edge, locating and destroying 32 of the lethal underground routes. One year after last summer’s war, the IDF is testing a new detection system along the Gaza border as Hamas builds new tunnels which Israel must find to keep its civilians safe….Funding Israel’s work to defend itself from the threat by developing the new defense system, $40 million is to be allocated to Israel in an amendment to the House Defense Appropriations Bill. READ MORE