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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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.
Right 🙄
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Those bromances promote a lot of intimate closeness.
Sounds plausible. Hadn’t heard that.
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
I have wonders if they knew about the rave. Or if they just stumbled upon it.
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...
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.
Do you suppose they have maps of the ones in the USA?
You really don't post anything of intelligent value. I was right all along.
Interesting thought to ponder.
Weird how people used maps before Google. ;o)
Don’t underestimate Iranian capabilities at play here.
That’s a very good thought. I would not put it past those virulently anti-Israel scum to do that.
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.
Hamas went awry with Rule #15.
This is only 3 minutes - but it’s about the planning for the attack
https://www.memri.org/player/clip/62530/1/1
Looks like somebody marked up a Google or Bing map. Not even close to full zoom-in.
OF COURSE THEY DID
WE CAN GOOGLE MAP ANYTHING
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