“According to open sources, the IDF has already built a system of pumps and pipes to pump seawater and is currently discussing with the United States practical aspects of such flooding: whether there will be enough water or if the tunnels’ ‘topography’ is fit for that and so on.
“Such a step, if made, will constitute a blatant war crime.”
Some in the West have warned that this could lead to an environmental disaster.
Prof. (Emer.) Eilon Adar of the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in southern Israel, told the Times of Israel that this could impact Gazans’ access to clean water.
