Posted on 10/12/2023 3:20:28 PM PDT by NautiNurse
TEL AVIV—Hamas militants who flooded into southern Israel from Gaza last weekend carried detailed maps of the towns and military bases that they targeted. Some also carried tactical guides identifying weak spots on Israeli army armored vehicles.
The documents, written in Arabic, were recovered from the sites of attacks or bodies of dead Hamas fighters by Israeli civilians, soldiers and emergency personnel.
Taken together, the documents indicate that Hamas set out from the start to target not just military installations, but to attack civilian population centers and to take hostages, and they offer evidence of the scale of Hamas’s intelligence-gathering and the degree of planning for the assault.
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One 14-page document labeled “top secret” in Arabic and dated June 15, 2023 describes a plan for infiltrating Mefalsim, a small collective community called a kibbutz, near Gaza and taking residents hostage.
Two teams of five and a commander would carry out the operation on “Hour S, Day Y,” it reads. Maps and aerial pictures of the town were contained in the document, which says there were 1,000 “civilians” guarded by a volunteer security force.
It warned that Israeli troops stationed nearby could arrive at Mefalsim “within 3-5 minutes.”
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Hamas’s planning for Saturday’s attack began in 2021, when the militant group began closely studying Israel’s tactics and strategies, according Abu Obaida, the spokesman for Hamas’s military wing, in a statement on its Telegram account Thursday. The result was already “more than we had planned,” he said.
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A separate document focused on purported “weak points” in the Israeli army’s main battle tank, the Merkava, advising that attackers should shoot “at it from a 50-meter distance using an RPG-7 or other direct weapons,” referring to a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.
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So Hamas is capable of intelligence gathering. No surprise there.
Google Maps isn’t that hard to use.
Could you “steal” some of those pics behind the pay wall and post them here? :-)
Google Maps did not provide this illustrative detail.
“Google Maps isn’t that hard to use.”
That was my first thought too.
Iran took American hostages back in 1979 and now through Hamas they took hostages again.
Supplied by our #JihadJunta?
Our government and the European governments have been infiltrated by Hamas sympathizers. It would be interesting to see if this intel was provided to them from our government sources.
Who was the mole? Might be as simple as someone getting some money from a sponsor in Qatar and paying somebody off in Mossad.
I expect the same thing is going on here right now. I am betting there have been tens of thousands of young male terrorists from a number of countries who have passed through the non existent southern border in the last three years.
If these people are organizing and training terrorist cells as is likely, 9/11 will be a cakewalk in comparison when they strike. There is nothing too harsh that could be said of the Democrat party for facilitating what could become a massive slaughter of Americans.
Amen.
So there have been 30,000 surveillance flights over the USA this year by privately owned airplanes. wonder who they are and what they are up to?
Agree.
Joe Biden’s Special Envoy to Iran and Principal Architect on Resurrecting Nuclear Deal Accused of Sharing Classified Information with Islamic Regime
Robert Malley was SoS Antony Blinken’s high school buddy in Paris.
Thanks Google Maps
Hopefully they can be sued by the families of the victims
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