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Israeli Intelligence forces are now reporting that Hamas has a trained army of 7,500 fighters in Gaza. This is not a group of guerillas, but a genuine army with specialized units including a short-range missile unit, a long-range missile unit, an anti-tank unit, and a sniper unit. Estimates are that if the flow of weapons and experts into Gaza continues, they will be operational and ready to take on Israel by next summer.

Their offensive capacity consists not only of an ability to launch long range missiles into Israel, but to infiltrate Israel via dozens of sophisticated hidden tunnels that originate in Gaza and will open up inside the Green Line. This is how Shalit was kidnapped: the terrorists entered into Israeli territory underground. These tunnels (as they have been used between Gaza and Egypt for smuggling until now) are often fully equipped, with electricity, tracks for little carts that carry the weapons, etc., and are high enough to allow people to walk upright. There is no way to estimate how many such tunnels are in process of being constructed, but in an area of one single kilometer 12 were discovered. Imagine, if you can, terrorists bearing weapons suddenly showing up inside our borders at various points and dispersing to do their damage. The stuff of nightmares.

According to Israeli military sources, as reported by YNet, this plan was activated by Hamas from the day they were elected, and has proceeded undeterred since, even during the time of IDF operations in Gaza. The military sources say they will have to decide soon how to deal with this.

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