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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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Images at the source include very detailed illustrations of maps and heavy military equipment.
1 posted on 10/12/2023 3:20:28 PM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: NautiNurse

So Hamas is capable of intelligence gathering. No surprise there.


2 posted on 10/12/2023 3:24:16 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

Google Maps isn’t that hard to use.


3 posted on 10/12/2023 3:25:20 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: NautiNurse

Could you “steal” some of those pics behind the pay wall and post them here? :-)


4 posted on 10/12/2023 3:26:26 PM PDT by cll (Serviam!)
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To: Magnum44

Google Maps did not provide this illustrative detail.


5 posted on 10/12/2023 3:27:28 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: Magnum44

“Google Maps isn’t that hard to use.”

That was my first thought too.


6 posted on 10/12/2023 3:29:38 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: NautiNurse

Iran took American hostages back in 1979 and now through Hamas they took hostages again.


7 posted on 10/12/2023 3:29:43 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: NautiNurse

Supplied by our #JihadJunta?


8 posted on 10/12/2023 3:31:26 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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To: NautiNurse

Our government and the European governments have been infiltrated by Hamas sympathizers. It would be interesting to see if this intel was provided to them from our government sources.


9 posted on 10/12/2023 3:32:00 PM PDT by Moorings
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Coming soon to a sanctuary city near you:

Islamic Militants Had Detailed Maps of US Towns, Military Bases and Infiltration Routes.
10 posted on 10/12/2023 3:33:04 PM PDT by know.your.why (<>)
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To: cll
Hopefully, the links will work.

Military equipment

Tanks, etc.

Map

11 posted on 10/12/2023 3:33:43 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

Who was the mole? Might be as simple as someone getting some money from a sponsor in Qatar and paying somebody off in Mossad.


12 posted on 10/12/2023 3:35:08 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: NautiNurse

I expect the same thing is going on here right now. I am betting there have been tens of thousands of young male terrorists from a number of countries who have passed through the non existent southern border in the last three years.

If these people are organizing and training terrorist cells as is likely, 9/11 will be a cakewalk in comparison when they strike. There is nothing too harsh that could be said of the Democrat party for facilitating what could become a massive slaughter of Americans.


13 posted on 10/12/2023 3:37:02 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: know.your.why

Amen.


14 posted on 10/12/2023 3:39:30 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

So there have been 30,000 surveillance flights over the USA this year by privately owned airplanes. wonder who they are and what they are up to?


15 posted on 10/12/2023 3:40:39 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Agree.


16 posted on 10/12/2023 3:40:47 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

Joe Biden’s Special Envoy to Iran and Principal Architect on Resurrecting Nuclear Deal Accused of Sharing Classified Information with Islamic Regime

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/10/joe-bidens-special-envoy-iran-principal-architect-resurrecting/


17 posted on 10/12/2023 3:43:26 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: conservativepoet

Robert Malley was SoS Antony Blinken’s high school buddy in Paris.


18 posted on 10/12/2023 3:44:43 PM PDT by NautiNurse (🇺🇸)
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To: NautiNurse

Thanks Google Maps


19 posted on 10/12/2023 3:44:44 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: NautiNurse

Hopefully they can be sued by the families of the victims


20 posted on 10/12/2023 3:45:44 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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