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February 16, 2016

Defending against Hamas’s Attack Tunnels

The case for preemptive action.

It is only a matter of time, writes Amos Yadlin, before Hamas attempts to send its forces into Israel via tunnels. The IDF can limit its response to occasional, circumscribed sorties into Gaza, but such an approach is likely to escalate into open conflict despite Israeli efforts to the contrary. Thus, absent a technological equivalent of the Iron Dome missile-defense system for repulsing tunnel attacks, Israel must prepare for a preemptive strike:

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February 16, 2016

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    The case for preemptive action.

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