Posted on 08/27/2025 8:09:36 AM PDT by Twotone
As Israel begins its offensive in Gaza City, Hamas is preventing the city's civilian population from evacuating in order to "exploit" the Israeli military's efforts to avoid civilian casualties, according to a Tuesday report.
"Hamas is preparing for the IDF's entry into Gaza City by threatening Gazans in the area and ordering its fighters to block exit routes," Israel's Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal reported, citing his colleague Nitzan Shapira.
Shapira added that after an Israeli airstrike accidentally struck Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and caused civilian casualties on Monday, Hamas "has further recognized that it can exploit the IDF's attempts to avoid civilian casualties to its own advantage—and increase its cynical exploitation of the civilian population," according to Segal's report.
Hamas has a long record of using civilian residences and infrastructure to shield its terrorist activity. The group has built tunnels and command centers beneath the European Gaza Hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital, U.N. Relief and Works Agency schools, and even the U.N. offices in Gaza City—knowingly putting civilian lives in danger.
Hamas terrorists also planted mines among children's toys inside a civilian building and stored rockets inside a child’s bed in a Gaza apartment, according to videos referenced in an April report by the Henry Jackson Society's Centre for the New Middle East, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
The terror group's blockade on civilian evacuations comes as Israel has launched an offensive, known as "Operation Gideon's Chariots II," to take control of Gaza City and dismantle Hamas's last stronghold. President Donald Trump has signaled his backing for the offensive, saying that Hamas "can't stay" in Gaza and that "we will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!!"
Israel has vowed to bring home all remaining hostages and disarm Hamas. Israeli intelligence estimates that around 20 hostages are still alive in Gaza, alongside the bodies of up to 30 others killed in captivity.
Hey, why are all the retards in the US not protesting and blaming Israel for this?
ALL of hamass tactics of war are War Crimes.
Send the U.N in to direct traffic.
Yours:
“Hey, why are all the retards in the US not protesting and blaming Israel for this?”
Mine:
They will. Their antisemitism is very reliable. (At least as reliable as their Saudi/Qatari and SorozNazi front group cheques?)
Wanna end war then make it very or extremely tragic. They are all warring for profit right now.
Two phrases which filled media during many other conflicts and wars.....
Human shields. Sometimes voluntary.. Hostages. Never voluntary.
These civilians are human shield hostages. It's not a new tactic.
Kill everything in Gaza. End of (immediate) problem.
If the IDF troops know where the Hamas terrorists are blocking the civilians from leaving, why aren’t they killing or taking them into custody?
They voted for it.
They voted for it.
Lefties generally do that, but with Hamas it's more direct.
They make sure of the casualties, not just trade on them.
Boo hoo hoo for Gazans. The same mercy they showed Israeli hostages and those they murdered in cold blood. “Land-hungry Israel”? “Palestinians permanently displaced from their land.”? Why don’t you go join a pro-Hamas demonstration somewhere? Preferably in some arab hell-hole.
Mmmmmm......a “true believer”......rotflol.
“ordering its fighters to block exit routes”
a metric shitton of IDF snipers might solve the problem ...
Israel’s accusation that Hamas forces Gazan residents to stay and act as human shields is a public relations strategy to cover-up what some call Israel’s Gaza genocide,
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Screw you Jew hater.
Ah go perform an anatomical impossibility with yourself, ****-kisser.
And you go roast an infant in front of its parents in celebration of 10/7 ya pathetic defender of all forms of reprobate evil and Hamas and it’s pyscophant gazans and fakeistimians.
Spit .
And don’t forget to put on your kaffiya.
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