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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: frank ballenger

Maybe, but SoS Antony Blinken’s high school buddy Robert Malley and his merry band of Iranian spies have been providing all sorts of intel to the Iranians.


41 posted on 10/12/2023 4:11:32 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NWFree

Right 🙄


42 posted on 10/12/2023 4:12:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

🙄


43 posted on 10/12/2023 4:12:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

Those bromances promote a lot of intimate closeness.


44 posted on 10/12/2023 4:12:51 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: TexasM1A

Sounds plausible. Hadn’t heard that.


45 posted on 10/12/2023 4:12:59 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

If you can’t tolerate the first Amendemt hit the road and stop posting crap cause I’m going to keep posting

You know where to stick it


46 posted on 10/12/2023 4:16:42 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

I have wonders if they knew about the rave. Or if they just stumbled upon it.


47 posted on 10/12/2023 4:17:18 PM PDT by Revel
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To: NautiNurse

The same way that the japs living in America provided Tokyo with detailed maps, ship identifications & movements, and dock locations in Pearl Harbor during the years 1937-1942...

The same way that the moslems living in America, in the past decades, have been providing detailed infrastructure information, geographical locations of military-support agencies & facilities, and working to increase the numbers of moslems flooding across the Southern border where they receive U.S. financing for the coming attacks...

One definition of “insanity” is making the same mistake over & over again & again & again without correction...


48 posted on 10/12/2023 4:21:20 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: TexasM1A

Something like 20,000 Gazans had work permits for Israel. Very easy to gain info personally, and to add info from Arabs resident in Israel.


49 posted on 10/12/2023 4:21:24 PM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: NautiNurse

Do you suppose they have maps of the ones in the USA?


50 posted on 10/12/2023 4:33:40 PM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH is a terrifying thing to behold when trapped in a web of delusion.)
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To: NWFree
Right 🙄

You really don't post anything of intelligent value. I was right all along.

51 posted on 10/12/2023 4:39:36 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Revel

Interesting thought to ponder.


52 posted on 10/12/2023 4:40:50 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: SuperLuminal

Weird how people used maps before Google. ;o)


53 posted on 10/12/2023 4:42:12 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Don’t underestimate Iranian capabilities at play here.


54 posted on 10/12/2023 4:48:48 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: frank ballenger

That’s a very good thought. I would not put it past those virulently anti-Israel scum to do that.


55 posted on 10/12/2023 4:48:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: NautiNurse

They had been planning it for over 2 years and only a handful of people knew.

Qasem Soleimani Made the plan and turned it over 2 days before Trump took him out. They have a 5 year plan to destroy Israel and another plan written up for after ‘the liberation’.

Here are 2:

They had a conference last month on steps to take after liberation

Here are a couple

15. In dealing with the Jewish settlers on Palestinian land, there must be a distinction in attitude towards [the following]: a fighter who must be killed; a [Jew] who is fleeing and can be left alone or be prosecuted for his crimes in the judicial arena; and a peaceful individual who gives himself up and can be [either] integrated or given time to leave. This is an issue that requires deep deliberation and a display of the humanism that has always characterized Islam.

“16. Educated Jews and experts in the areas of medicine, engineering, technology, and civilian and military industry should be retained [in Palestine] for some time and should not be allowed to leave and take with them the knowledge and experience that they acquired while living in our land and enjoying its bounty, while we paid the price for all this in humiliation, poverty, sickness, deprivation, killing and arrests.

MEMRI has interviews and the info.


56 posted on 10/12/2023 4:58:37 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: HollyB

Hamas went awry with Rule #15.


57 posted on 10/12/2023 5:08:53 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

This is only 3 minutes - but it’s about the planning for the attack

https://www.memri.org/player/clip/62530/1/1


58 posted on 10/12/2023 5:11:03 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: NautiNurse

Looks like somebody marked up a Google or Bing map. Not even close to full zoom-in.


59 posted on 10/12/2023 6:14:15 PM PDT by Paul R. (Bin Laden wanted Obama killed so the incompetent VP, Biden, would become President!)
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To: NautiNurse

OF COURSE THEY DID

WE CAN GOOGLE MAP ANYTHING


60 posted on 10/12/2023 6:17:43 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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