I’m not trying to spread propoganda so I don’t have a database of links ready to copy and paste. I’m also not staying any facts that cannot be easily verified.
I’m assuming, as one does, that Hamas is happy when the likely and foreseeable result of their intended actions come to fruition. Especially when it happens again and again and again and nothing changes.
Firing dozens of rockets per month from the middle of the same neighborhoods.
Building tunnel shafts into hospitals used to smuggle hostages and weapons, into apartment buildings, into schools, into the busiest places in the most populous parts of the cities; 500 miles of tunnels in a 25 mile wide area.
Hamas’s associated lawfare campaign speaks for itself. It would be hard for anyone to dispute that a high civilian death toll is Gaza’s most effective weapon against Israel. I know I’m giddy when I’m good at my job. Are you not?
And yet not a single citation here. 🤔
I’m not trying to spread propoganda so I don’t have a database of links ready to copy and paste. I’m also not staying any facts that cannot be easily verified.
“trust me bro these facts are soooo easily verified. i won’t do it but it’s so easy bro i swear.”
Come on now. Is this easily verified? Is it even true?
I’m assuming, as one does, that Hamas is happy when the likely and foreseeable result of their intended actions come to fruition. Especially when it happens again and again and again and nothing changes.
Not wearing uniforms.
Firing dozens of rockets per month from the middle of the same neighborhoods.
Building tunnel shafts into hospitals used to smuggle hostages and weapons, into apartment buildings, into schools, into the busiest places in the most populous parts of the cities; 500 miles of tunnels in a 25 mile wide area.
Using ambulances to transport fighters.
Telling their families and neighbors that the evacuation warnings the IDF is mass texting and posting about are a hoax.
Blocking evacuation routes.
Shooting and beating Gazan’s who resist Hamas.
Sneaking into refugee camps to hide among innocent people and use them as human shields.
Encouraging their families to go stand up on the roof of the building they just got a mass text warning would be hit by an airstrike.
Strangling shooting and hanging dozens of local organizers for wanting to have elections.
Beheading the patriarch of a Gazan family who promised to help provide security for food aid convoys.
Shooting Gazan children for taking food aid before Hamas got their fill.
Hamas’s associated lawfare campaign speaks for itself. It would be hard for anyone to dispute that a high civilian death toll is Gaza’s most effective weapon against Israel. I know I’m giddy when I’m good at my job. Are you not?
Further reading
https://embassies.gov.il/MFA/FOREIGNPOLICY/Terrorism/Pages/Terror in Gaza- Two months since the Hamas takeover 16-Aug-2007.aspx
https://www.american.edu/sis/news/20231116-hamas-isnt-the-first-military-group-to-hide-behind-civilians.cfm
https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf
https://jcpa.org/article/what-is-behind-south-africas-anti-israel-lawfare-campaign/