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Hamas.... A testament to waste. The real cost of terror tunnels.

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In fact, the humanitarian crisis isn’t bad enough to prevent a construction boom in Gaza – though it doesn’t change the skyline. By 2014, the Israeli Defense Forces had uncovered 18 tunnels built by Hamas to sneak across the border into Israel. Those tunnels consisted of about 800,000 tons of concrete.

What else might that much concrete build? Erecting Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest tower, required 110,000 tons of concrete. Hamas, then, could’ve treated itself to seven such monstrosities and still had a few tens of thousands of tons to spare. If it wanted to build kindergartens equipped with bomb shelters, like Israel has built for the besieged citizens of Sderot, for example…Hamas could have used its leftovers to whip up about two that were each as big as Giants Stadium. And that’s just 18 tunnels. Egypt, on its end, recently claimed to have destroyed an additional 1,370. That’s a lot of concrete

Ilhan Omar Is Now Just Spouting Off Hamas Propaganda - The Bulwark

Every time something one bitches about the infrastructure of Gaza not being rebuilt remember this.
 
Since the end of the 2014 conflict, enough cement has entered Gaza to build 16 Burj Khalifa skyscrapers in Dubai—the tallest building in the world. That cement has largely gone underground, feeding Hamas’s war machine.
 
Hamas backers spend fortunes on rockets and tunnels while Gazans live in misery

Although the millions of Palestinians packed into the small strip suffer from chronic unemployment, and lack of electricity and running water, Hamas and its backers such as Qatar have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on tunnels and rockets with one goal in mind: killing Israelis.





“When you look at what Hamas did with all the cement and the materials that went into Gaza for ‘building’, and you now see that most went on the tunnels, you understand that from their point of view the civilian side is not important,” retired Maj. Gen. Yaakov Amidror, former national security advisor to the prime minister of Israel and director of the Intelligence Analysis Division in Israel’s Military Intelligence, told FoxNews.com.




So far, Israel has destroyed some 32 terror tunnels – each one requiring the equivalent of 350 truckloads of building supplies and costing up to $3 million to create, according to the IDF. And 3,360 short and medium-range rockets have been fired at Israel by Hamas and other militant Islamist groups, likely costing millions more.


Hamas backers spend fortunes on rockets and tunnels while Gazans live in misery | Fox News
 
The underground barrier is expected to be completed in the next 5 months.
Afterwards Hamas will have to think of some other creative way to try and export terrorism.
 
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