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Hamas Militants Had Detailed Maps of Israeli Towns, Military Bases and Infiltration Routes
WSJ ^ | 12 October 2023 | David S. Cloud, Anat Peled and Dov Lieber

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: detailed; hamas; hamaswar; infiltration; insidejob; israel
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

THE EU gave Palestine over $10 million for pipelines for water.

Those pipelines were set.

EU gave more millions for more pipelines.

HAMAS DUG UP THE PIPELINES & USED THE MATERIALS TO MAKE CRUDE ROCKETS.

TELL AGAIN HOW THEY HAVE ANY RESPECT FOR THEIR OWN PEOPLE.


61 posted on 10/12/2023 6:20:59 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChildOfThe60s

ISIS training facilities were raided years ago in Klamath Falls, Oregon. They had bought up a ranch.

RUMOR of similar near Fresno on the western side of the Sierra Nevada have been around for years.


62 posted on 10/12/2023 6:23:20 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: Rennes Templar

YOU WIN !!!!!


63 posted on 10/12/2023 6:24:22 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ridesthemiles

A couple of such were reported to be in TN.


64 posted on 10/12/2023 6:25:34 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: NWFree

“FROZEN” and controlled by OUR sec of Treasury-—

JANET YELLEN

Blinken says the funds are in QATAR......

THE HIGH UP HONCHOS OF HAMAS LIVE IN QATAR.

HOW MUCH CONTROL DO THEY HAVE OVER QATAR BANKS. ??????


65 posted on 10/12/2023 6:28:35 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: HollyB

HUMANISM & ISLAM do not belong in the same sentence.


66 posted on 10/12/2023 6:30:51 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: NautiNurse

Israel gave almost 20,000 Gazans work permits to come into Israel.


67 posted on 10/12/2023 6:52:09 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: roving

“Amir Tsarfati provides an excellent explanation of what happened
https://www.youtube.com/live/TTz_oDwEjMg?si=nVoB6P3k9hd3z6ew

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thank you for this link.
Very interesting.


68 posted on 10/12/2023 6:53:05 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: TornadoAlley3

No doubt, the work permits have been revoked.


69 posted on 10/12/2023 7:16:08 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Rattlesnake_Snook

You think a 2-state solution is the answer? They’ll never stop until all Jews are dead. 🤦‍♀️


70 posted on 10/12/2023 8:04:02 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: NautiNurse

No more secrets...☹
Cannot run & hide, unless you are a politician trying to avoid responsibilities to your constituents or the Constitution...


71 posted on 10/12/2023 8:15:31 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: roving

thank you

lots of information

good analysis


72 posted on 10/12/2023 8:58:02 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Funny how Biden's envoy Robert Malley was suspended about two months ago for “mishandling documents” with Iran. Now we find out he pushed for America to normalize relations with Hamas.

https://www.allsides.com/news/2023-10-12-1322/politics-biden-s-suspended-iran-special-envoy-once-pushed-engagement-hamas

73 posted on 10/12/2023 9:06:27 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Chgogal

Funny how Robert Malley was a high school buddy with U.S. SoS Antony Blinken. They lived in Paris.


74 posted on 10/13/2023 2:45:44 AM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

interesting


75 posted on 10/13/2023 1:07:22 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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