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Senior Hamas commander goes 'missing' from Gaza
inn ^ | 6/14/16 | Ari Soffer

Posted on 06/14/2016 12:57:30 PM PDT by Nachum

A senior commander in Hamas's elite commando unit has handed himself over to Israel, according to sources inside Gaza cited by Channel 2.

Reports of his surrender to Israel have been circulating in Gaza ever since the commander - a member the elite "Nahba" unit of Hamas's military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades - went missing several days ago.

The Nahba spearheads Hamas's tunnel warfare capabilities, and is specifically tasked with capturing IDF soldiers.

The missing commander is reportedly from Khan Younis in southern Gaza, and the son of a prominent judge on Hamas's Sharia religious court.

According to Channel 2, a number of different "versions" of his disappearance are making the rounds in Gaza.

Hamas, for its part, maintains he was captured by Israeli security forces, who have nabbed a number of (generally more junior) Hamas operatives involved in tunnel digging over the past several months.

But other sources say he told his family he was going for a hike and would return by evening - only to cross over the border into Israel.

Either way, capturing such a senior Hamas commander would represent a major intelligence coup for Israeli security services.

(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fatah; gaza; hamas; hizbollah; iran; israel; jerusalem; judea; lebanon; letshavejerusalem; samaria; waronterror

1 posted on 06/14/2016 12:57:30 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

I bet he was at the WalMart in Texas. ;-P


2 posted on 06/14/2016 12:58:42 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Nachum

If it’s a defection, his family are the walking dead.


3 posted on 06/14/2016 1:00:44 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Who would kill him?


4 posted on 06/14/2016 1:06:20 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Nachum

Appalachian Trail?


5 posted on 06/14/2016 1:13:06 PM PDT by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors)
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To: Nachum

“I hand myself to you, I hand myself to you, I hand myself to you.”


6 posted on 06/14/2016 1:15:56 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Nachum

Gee that’s a shame. Was it the Mossad or his own people?


7 posted on 06/14/2016 1:20:29 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Nachum

hopefully Mossad has sent the basturd to Allah in Hell


8 posted on 06/14/2016 1:22:54 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: Rummyfan

He shoulda left a bread crumb trail. Of course, that’s no guarantee since Hamas tells us the Mossad has pigeons as agents who obliterate the trail.


9 posted on 06/14/2016 1:24:22 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: faithhopecharity

Amish agents at it again.


10 posted on 06/14/2016 1:29:42 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: DIRTYSECRET

“Who would kill him?”

You mistook my meaning.

Not “him”, THEM. If his buddies decide he defected rather than was snatched, his family is, IMHO, in peril.


11 posted on 06/14/2016 1:38:02 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Nachum

Check the Whitehouse ,,,,


12 posted on 06/14/2016 1:42:03 PM PDT by Lionheartusa1 ()-: ISIS is Islam without the lipstick :-()
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Only 38 more with "Israel" or "Hamas" in the title?
13 posted on 06/14/2016 3:00:16 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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