The Hamas tunnels: a wildcard in the Gaza fighting

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Here's the bottom line when it comes to fighting an enemy hiding in a labyrinth of tunnels — you don't want to send your troops there.

"It's very dark and it's claustrophobic and it's narrow. And you lose your sense of direction immediately. You lose completely a sense of time," said Daphne Richemond-Barak, an Israeli military analyst and the author of Underground Warfare. The Israeli military has taken her into Hamas tunnels that crossed from Gaza into southern Israel.

"They are humid and suffocating. So when you walk in them, you would be disoriented for sure, but also incredibly afraid," she added.