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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If that is what you need to think. So be it.
June 15th - this has been in the works at least since then.
You have to wonder how they kept this secret.
Article indicaates planning in 2021.
2 years. and what happened just over two years ago?
Stolen election?
Amir Tsarfati provides an excellent explanation of what happened
https://www.youtube.com/live/TTz_oDwEjMg?si=nVoB6P3k9hd3z6ew
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.
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
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.
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.
It doesn’t matter what I think - it will be up to the jury
Those who assist terrorism can be held accountable for damages
Take it up with Dorkowitz he’s the attorney with 30+ years experience
Wow, thanks.
Do you ever post anything with more value than snark?
It’s a shame you know so little about which you post you have to insult others that keep up.
In fact this is one of the reasons the 6 billion has been frozen again. Due to liability issues. Don’t be so ignorant
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.
Right 🙄
Weren’t several of them know by the Israelis?, didn’t a few have work permits?
Show me your law degree and 30+ years of experience
I didn’t think so
Dork
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