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Hamas leadership 'fractures' as IDF destroy tunnel network
Times Radio ^ | 13/11/23 | Anshel Pfeffer

Posted on 11/13/2023 1:10:25 PM PST by Eleutheria5

"Israeli forces are now operating, going from house to house looking for tunnel entrances, when they find one of those, they they usually destroy them."

Hamas leadership is starting to fracture as IDF troops go from house to house, under intense mortar fire, blowing up tunnels, says Anshel Pffeffer who has been with IDF troops in Gaza reporting for The Times.

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TOPICS: Hamas; Israel; War; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fighting; ghaza; idf; tunnels
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To: alternatives?

The problem is all they need to do is miss one exit. They probably have hidden emergency exits.

It is always possible but there are many components to a fighting force. The ability to fight, the logistics to fight with, and the willingness to fight (often referred to as “morale”)

Hamas is losing. Their leadership is being taken out one at a time. Their safe haven is being destroyed. They have to be thinking their GOD has forsaken them. Those sitting in the dark running out of supplies waiting for the next bomb to drop on their heads have a limited time left to fight.

The question is do they have the will to?

And if they do, they must understand that they will certainly die. They will not be attacking teens at a dance party, or families asleep in their beds, or senior citizens are babies in their cribs. They will be fighting soldier with means and the ability to kill them all.

Time will tell...

https://www.theleadermaker.com/morale-is-everything/


21 posted on 11/13/2023 2:24:01 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Eleutheria5
“Israeli forces are now operating, going from house to house looking for tunnel entrances, when they find one of those, they they usually destroy them.”

What is not said, is when the IDF goes house to house and then find a tunnel entrance, do they clear the house of people, and then blow up the entire building or just try to close the tunnel entrance?

I would expect they would blow up the building as the photo's of the tunnels look very massive and it would take lots of explosives to destroy the concrete tunnels. That means that the Palestinians living in those houses will loose their homes. They should have objected to Hamas using their home or place of refuge as a human shield. Unfortunately, it is too late for that.

Again, if Hamas, stopped popping out of tunnels and attacking the IDF, by abandoning the tunnels and moving the fight elsewhere, the IDF would not be going house by house, they would follow the terrorists.

22 posted on 11/13/2023 2:26:40 PM PST by Robert357
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To: Grampa Dave

Beautiful.


23 posted on 11/13/2023 2:27:32 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Grampa Dave

Great photo, G Dave!


24 posted on 11/13/2023 2:44:40 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: Grampa Dave

Great photo, G Dave!


25 posted on 11/13/2023 2:44:41 PM PST by Cuttnhorse
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I am not sure the level of morale applies to devout Muslims. There always seems to be more to take their place.


26 posted on 11/13/2023 2:50:11 PM PST by alternatives?
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To: alternatives?

I am not sure the level of morale applies to devout Muslims. There always seems to be more to take their place.

True, but Muslims have surrendered in the past conflicts.

From an outsider view being a Muslim is like living under peer pressure on steroids. I can not read minds nor can I read the depth of their belief but for humans, the will to survive is strong. The choice is certain death or to live to fight another day. As I wrote, only time will tell.


27 posted on 11/13/2023 2:55:49 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: Grampa Dave

That picture is fake. I don’t see the 5-gallon bucket Hama uses to crap in when they’re in session.


28 posted on 11/13/2023 3:06:21 PM PST by shotgun
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To: shotgun

BOL!


29 posted on 11/13/2023 3:46:22 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you've never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Only problem is hamsasses will dig all that crap out and have tunnels again. Blow them up and fill them with concrete.


30 posted on 11/13/2023 3:52:51 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (#PureBloodlaw enforcement. )
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To: alternatives?

Blowing up the hatches isn’t enough. Building foam walls won’t help those can be re-drilled. They need to destroy or otherwise permanently disable the tunnels not just the entrances.


31 posted on 11/13/2023 4:38:54 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: alternatives?
The problem is all they need to do is miss one exit

Israel also has another technique - toss in a colored-smoke bomb, then seal the tunnel with foam, and watch on the surface where the smoke comes out


32 posted on 11/13/2023 4:40:15 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Grampa Dave
Israeli flag in Hamas parliament. Hamas loves to scream that their god is greater. This photo shows the truth is instead, "Allahu Fubar!"
33 posted on 11/13/2023 5:12:38 PM PST by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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To: Eleutheria5; roving

Yay!!! Thanks for posting.


34 posted on 11/13/2023 6:42:08 PM PST by Silentgypsy (In my defense, I was left unsupervised.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Just flood the damn tunnels! I don’t understand why they don’t just drown tue rats?


35 posted on 11/13/2023 9:53:57 PM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: vpintheak

The hostages were mostly kept in a tunnel directly beneath a hospital, IDF has discovered. They are not there anymore, since the terrorists have buggered off and taken the hostages with them, but had they flooded that tunnel, the hospital might have been safe, but the hostages would have drowned together with their rat captors.


36 posted on 11/13/2023 10:52:12 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Nervous Tick

Amen!


37 posted on 11/14/2023 9:16:21 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you've never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: pollywog

Good photo and news!


38 posted on 11/14/2023 9:18:15 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you've never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: Eleutheria5

I understand that. Thanks.


39 posted on 11/14/2023 9:18:49 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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To: Eleutheria5

I realized my comment could sound snarky. But I didn’t mean it that way. I guess I meant to say that I didn’t think of that possibility. Thanks for briothat to my attention.


40 posted on 11/14/2023 9:20:33 AM PST by vpintheak (There is no Trans. There is only mentally ill)
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