Retired Israeli Brig. Gen. Elihu Ben-Onn says Israeli Defense Forces have reduced the Hamas rocket arsenal by about 50 percent, and he says the military operation will continue until Hamas has no rockets remaining and its tunnel system is eradicated.
“These bloody terrorists had more than 9,000 rockets. We believe we destroyed half of it. That means more than 4,000 rockets. So the mission is not accomplished yet,” said Ben-Onn, who is disgusted at the tactics employed by Hamas to maximize civilian casualties.
“They protect themselves with children and women and hospitals and mosques. They believe that if they hide behind them, [Israel] will not go there,” he said. “They want them to get the bullets first. They don’t fight like soldiers [but] like cowards.”
Ben-Onn added, “We still have to go forward in order to stop all of them. They still have thousands of rockets.”
In addition to the threat posed by relentless rockets fired from Gaza, Israel is also committed to the arduous task of destroying the elaborate system of tunnels that allows Hamas to slip into Israel underground.
“Israel has to move inside and actually go to all basements, all the shelters, all the underground cities Hamas built under the civilians,” said Ben-Onn, who described how the tunnel system works.
“They were dug in the last couple of years. They start in the living room or the kitchen or in the bedroom of the children. They start it from that kitchen down to the ground and then one or two kilometers, all the way to the border,” he said.
Ben-Onn admitted discovering all the tunnels is a painstaking task.
“It’s very complicated,” he said. “You have to go from house to house, from building to building. You need a lot of information, a lot of intelligence. Of course, when you find those terrorists, it’s sad they don’t go out and fight. They prefer to be behind human shelters.”
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