Posted on 05/30/2024 7:40:43 AM PDT by SJackson
An Israeli soldier walks next to items found inside a workshop which they claim was used for weapon production and located on the lower floors of a residential building in the northern Gaza Strip, November 8, 2023. (photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)
As Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza are cut off from their weapons supply due to the IDF’s operations on the Philadelphi Corridor between Gaza and Egypt, the terrorist groups will go to ground and use their remaining weapons. Hamas has been stockpiling weapons for decades in Gaza. Almost every building has either weapons or other types of terrorist infrastructure inside.
Even if the terror groups disperse their units and go to ground, they will still be deadly. This is clear from the recent attacks in Gaza. The groups continue claim success against the IDF. Even if the claims are unconfirmed or exaggerated, they point to the types of weapons the groups continue to possess.
This is a list from the last few days of the types of weapons the terror groups claim to have.
Weapons inventory Hamas says it has been able to down a quadcopter drone in Jabalya. It apparently did this with rifle fire. In addition it says it uses the Yasin 105. Reports say this is a type of two-stage high explosive anti-tank weapon that is used with an RPG7 launcher. It has used these to target tanks and also D9 bulldozers, according to reports at Al-Mayadeen. Hamas also uses sniper rifles and mortars as well as installing explosives in buildings and booby-trapping tunnels.
Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the last several days has said that it is using anti-tank missiles as well as 60mm mortar shells and 107mm rockets. It claims to be operating in Rafah, as well as Jabalya and Beit Lahia. Similarly the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim to be using 60mm mortars in their operations. They claim to be carrying out attacks in Rafah, Beit Lahia, Jabalya and also targeting the IDF in the Netzarim corridor. A third group, the Martyr Omar al-Qasim unit, which is part of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine says it has access to 107mm rockets as well as small arms.
This is likely an incomplete list of the types of weapons being used, but it points to what continues to be common munition usage by Hamas in Gaza. In essence, this arsenal continues to showcase a large number of short range rockets and mortars as well as anti-tank weapons and RPGs.
In general though it appears that Hamas and these groups are forced to resort to using these weapons infrequently as they face off against the IDF on multiple fronts in Gaza.
They also don’t seem to lack for weaponry, especially when it comes to small arms. Whether they have a large supply or mortars and rockets that they can continue to use is unclear. In general Hamas has not suffered heavy losses in the central camps area of Maghazi, Bureij, Nuseirat and Deir al-Balah, where it likely continues to have stores of weapons and may even be able to produce some simple versions of the weapons it continues to use.
Not a shock considering that nearly 100% of them want Jews and Israel destroyed.
Remember now that only 10% of gazans support these hamas-sholes.
Okay, I got into a debate the other day with Freeper Texas Fossil.
HOW DID THOSE WEAPONS PHYSICALLY GET THERE?
Meaning:
A. Did they come through the smuggling tunnels via Egypt.
B. Did the come into the small port in Gaza City?
C. Both of the above.
D. They were smuggled in by some other means I am not aware of.
E. They were manufactured in Gaza from components. Like water pipes. Raw steel in a machine shop. Fertilizer and other chemicals.
F. ALL of the above.
Israel maintains a naval blockade, as a result the Gaza City port is restricted to fishing boats. And search. Local manufacture, the make their own rockets, still requires raw materials. I don’t know if they’re making fertilizer explosives, but they’d have to import the fertilizer and fuel oil. I have to think the bulk comes in through the tunnels to the Sinai.
That is my understanding too. Most of the actual weapons were smuggled in through the tunnels via Egypt.
What I have read is that Iran loads a ship. The ship goes to Yemen and then to Somolia. The weapons are then loaded on a truck. Then brought to the Sinai where they are unloaded and brought by hand into Gaza through the tunnels.
The Egyptian’s could stop them IF they really wanted or at least most of them. However, they do not. So, that means someone is getting PAID to look the other way. It is not just some poor Egyptian Army Border guard either. They may get a small cut. The Egyptian generals are getting paid by Iran to let the weapons flow.
Someone significant is, more than one likely. But the Sinai has a not insignificant terror presence, and Egyptian officers have been known to be sympathetic with the Muslim Brotherhood, so it’s not much of a stretch. And pre October, Israel didn’t make much of an effort destroying tunnels anywhere.
Its the Bedouins in the Sinai that give Egypt all the trouble.
Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp.
Bump
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They need another Lawrence of Arabia.
They need another Lawrence of Arabia.
🎵Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia
He was an English guy
He came to fight the Turkish🎵
They need another Lawrence of Arabia.
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I’m sure the Brits have any number of gay muslim coverts they could send to do a reasonable job of imitating T. E. Lawrence.
What ever they got, they got less and less of them.
two words:
FUCK EGYPT
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