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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: NWFree

If that is what you need to think. So be it.


21 posted on 10/12/2023 3:45:56 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

June 15th - this has been in the works at least since then.

You have to wonder how they kept this secret.


22 posted on 10/12/2023 3:46:07 PM PDT by Nifty
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To: Nifty

Article indicaates planning in 2021.


23 posted on 10/12/2023 3:46:56 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Nifty

2 years. and what happened just over two years ago?


24 posted on 10/12/2023 3:49:02 PM PDT by Nifty
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To: Nifty

Stolen election?


25 posted on 10/12/2023 3:51:31 PM PDT by Rennes Templar (Come back, President Trump.)
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To: NautiNurse

Amir Tsarfati provides an excellent explanation of what happened

https://www.youtube.com/live/TTz_oDwEjMg?si=nVoB6P3k9hd3z6ew


26 posted on 10/12/2023 3:51:38 PM PDT by roving (👌⚓Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: NautiNurse

Google Maps is not the only source for satellite photos. There are companies that sell much higher resolution imagery and such (for anyone who gives them a nominal amount of money) up to and including privately owned French photorecon satellites that you can rent time on. Google Maps detail is deliberately degraded, but other providers’ imagery isn’t.

https://www.maxar.com/products/satellite-imagery

Above is one example of what’s available with just a cursory look. There are many legitimate users of such services - for example, a number of organizations are paying Maxar to park a satellite over Ukraine right now.

https://blog.maxar.com/earth-intelligence/2023/new-documentary-on-ukraine-underscores-the-importance-of-maxars-commercial-satellite-imagery-and-capabilities


27 posted on 10/12/2023 3:51:59 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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1. This shows that Hamas has used old fashioned methods of scouting and they did not do any information sharing via any internet, that is why the intelligence of israel never caught this because all they ever focus on now is internet surveillance

2. This actually shows why palestine should be a state: with clear borders you can watch and control who goes in and out, right now palestineans are mixed in with israelis and all lines are grey and blurred so it is easy to get in and out of areas


28 posted on 10/12/2023 3:52:08 PM PDT by Rattlesnake_Snook
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To: Magnum44

Yup... I know that Palestinian’s aren’t the smartest cookies, but you’d need to be pretty dumb cookie to screw up on Google maps.


29 posted on 10/12/2023 3:53:13 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: NautiNurse

That satellite map is about on par with some recent Google Maps takes, the rest could just be Google Image Search pulls.

Doesn’t look like anything specialist.


30 posted on 10/12/2023 3:54:06 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: NautiNurse

It doesn’t matter what I think - it will be up to the jury

Those who assist terrorism can be held accountable for damages


31 posted on 10/12/2023 3:54:46 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

Take it up with Dorkowitz he’s the attorney with 30+ years experience


32 posted on 10/12/2023 3:57:33 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

Wow, thanks.


33 posted on 10/12/2023 3:57:56 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: NWFree

Do you ever post anything with more value than snark?


34 posted on 10/12/2023 4:00:57 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

It’s a shame you know so little about which you post you have to insult others that keep up.


35 posted on 10/12/2023 4:05:25 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

In fact this is one of the reasons the 6 billion has been frozen again. Due to liability issues. Don’t be so ignorant


36 posted on 10/12/2023 4:07:12 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

In addition to this I asked here recently if anyone thought AOC, Tlaib, Pressley and other anti-Israel members of Congress or US senators used their special security and contacts in DC to get information of Israeli preparedness, weaknesses, requests for weapons and positions of military forces.

Like Pelosi and others with illegal insider trading for securities there must be people who ask and grant favors on things like that.


37 posted on 10/12/2023 4:07:12 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: NWFree

Right 🙄


38 posted on 10/12/2023 4:08:34 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

Weren’t several of them know by the Israelis?, didn’t a few have work permits?


39 posted on 10/12/2023 4:09:12 PM PDT by TexasM1A
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To: NautiNurse

Show me your law degree and 30+ years of experience

I didn’t think so

Dork


40 posted on 10/12/2023 4:10:00 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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