The Flooding of the Tunnels Has Begun

The Wall Street Journal reports this afternoon that the Israel Defense Forces have begun the process of flooding Hamas’s tunnel network beneath the Gaza Strip with seawater:

There is no such thing in war as a tactic that entails no risk, and there are plenty of risks associated with this effort to clear the dense, complex, and deadly rabbit warrens in which Hamas takes refuge. We know those risks because the U.S. sources with whom WSJ reporters spoke emphasized them over the rewards associated with this approach to clearing the tunnels.