What's new

Gaza-Israel Conflict | October 2023

.
The sad truth is, this is going to go on forever, because I don't think there are any compromise left if at all after this. All it now left is just bloodshed.
No it won’t go on forever. But both sides will have to get used to higher casualties. And both will have to pay a higher price to do what they are doing. The one willing to pay the highest price will win.
 
. .

How Israel was duped as Hamas planned devastating assault​



Oct 9 (Reuters) - A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its devastating attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East's most powerful army.

Saturday's assault, the worst breach in Israel's defences since Arab armies waged war in 1973, followed two years of subterfuge by Hamas that involved keeping its military plans under wraps and convincing Israel it did not want a fight.

While Israel was led to believe it was containing a war-weary Hamas by providing economic incentives to Gazan workers, the group's fighters were being trained and drilled, often in plain sight, a source close to Hamas said.

This source provided many of the details for the account of the attack and its buildup that has been pieced together by Reuters. Three sources within Israel's security establishment, who like others asked not to be identified, also contributed to this account.

"Hamas gave Israel the impression that it was not ready for a fight," said the source close to Hamas, describing plans for the most startling assault since the Yom Kippur War 50 years ago when Egypt and Syria surprised Israel and made it fight for its survival.

"Hamas used an unprecedented intelligence tactic to mislead Israel over the last months, by giving a public impression that it was not willing to go into a fight or confrontation with Israel while preparing for this massive operation," the source said.

Israel concedes it was caught off guard by an attack timed to coincide with the Jewish Sabbath and a religious holiday. Hamas fighters stormed into Israeli towns, killing 700 Israelis and abducting dozens. Israel has killed more than 400 Palestinians in its retaliation on Gaza since then.

"This is our 9/11," said Major Nir Dinar, spokesperson for the Israeli Defence Forces. "They got us."

"They surprised us and they came fast from many spots - both from the air and the ground and the sea."

Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told Reuters the attack showed Palestinians had the will to achieve their goals "regardless of Israel's military power and capabilities."

'THEY RAN RIOT'​

In one of the most striking elements of their preparations, Hamas constructed a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza where they practiced a military landing and trained to storm it, the source close to Hamas said, adding they even made videos of the manoeuvres.

"Israel surely saw them but they were convinced that Hamas wasn't keen on getting into a confrontation," the source said.

Meanwhile, Hamas sought to convince Israel it cared more about ensuring that workers in Gaza, a narrow strip of land with more than two million residents, had access to jobs across the border and had no interest in starting a new war.

"Hamas was able to build a whole image that it was not ready for a military adventure against Israel," the source said.

Since a 2021 war with Hamas, Israel has sought to provide a basic level of economic stability in Gaza by offering incentives including thousands of permits so Gazans can work in Israel or the West Bank, where salaries in construction, agriculture or service jobs can be 10 times the level of pay in Gaza.

"We believed that the fact that they were coming in to work and bringing money into Gaza would create a certain level of calm. We were wrong," another Israeli army spokesperson said.

An Israeli security source acknowledged Israel's security services were duped by Hamas. "They caused us to think they wanted money," the source said. "And all the time they were involved in exercises/drills until they ran riot."

As part of its subterfuge in the past two years, Hamas refrained from military operations against Israel, even as another Gaza-based Islamist armed group known as Islamic Jihad launched a series of its own assaults or rocket attacks.

NO INKLING​

The restraint shown by Hamas drew public criticism from some supporters, again aimed at building an impression that Hamas had economic concerns not a new war on its mind, the source said.

In the West Bank, controlled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah group, there were those who mocked Hamas for going quiet. In one Fatah statement published in June 2022, the group accused Hamas leaders of fleeing to Arab capitals to live in "luxurious hotels and villas" leaving their people to poverty in Gaza.

A second Israeli security source said there was a period when Israel believed the movement's leader in Gaza, Yahya Al-Sinwar, was preoccupied with managing Gaza "rather than killing Jews". At the same time, Israel turned its focus away from Hamas as it pushed for a deal to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, he added.

Israel has long prided itself on its ability to infiltrate and monitor Islamist groups. As a consequence, the source close to Hamas said, a crucial part of the plan was to avoid leaks.

Many Hamas leaders were unaware of the plans and, while training, the 1,000 fighters deployed in the assault had no inkling of the exact purpose of the exercises, the source added.

When the day came, the operation was divided into four parts, the Hamas source said, describing the various elements.

The first move was a barrage of 3,000 rockets fired from Gaza that coincided with incursions by fighters who flew hang gliders over the border, the source said. Israel has previously said 2,500 rockets were fired at first.

Once the fighters on hang-gliders were on the ground, they secured the terrain so an elite commando unit could storm the fortified electronic and cement wall that divides Gaza from the settlements and which was built by Israel to prevent infiltration.

The fighters used explosives to breach the barriers and then sped across on motorbikes. Bulldozers widened the gaps and more fighters entered in four-wheel drives, scenes that witnesses described.

'HUGE FAILURE'​

A commando unit attacked the Israeli army's southern Gaza headquarters and jammed its communications, preventing personnel from calling commanders or each other, the source said.

The final part involved moving hostages to Gaza, mostly achieved early in the attack, the source close to Hamas said.

In one well-publicised hostage taking, fighters abducted party-goers fleeing a rave near the kibbutz of Re'im near Gaza. Social media footage showed dozens of people running through fields and on a road as gunshots were heard.

"How could this party happen this close (to Gaza)?" the Israeli security source said.

The Israeli security source said Israeli troops were below full strength in the south near Gaza because some had been redeployed to the West Bank to protect Israeli settlers following a surge of violence between them and Palestinian militants.

"They (Hamas) exploited that," the source said.

Retired General Yaakov Amidror, a former national security adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told reporters on Sunday the assault represented "a huge failure of the intelligence system and the military apparatus in the south."

Amidror, chairman of the National Security Council from April 2011-November 2013 and now senior fellow with the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, said some of Israel's allies had been saying that Hamas had acquired "more responsibility".

"We stupidly began to believe that it was true," he said. "So, we made a mistake. We are not going to make this mistake again and we will destroy Hamas, slowly but surely."

Reporting by Samia Nakhoul in Dubai and Jonathan Saul in London; Writing by William Maclean; Editing by Edmund Blair
 
.
Press charges against this terrorist filthy baby killer Jew . That's a hate crime. If a Palestinian did this to a Jew the police would be all over him. He's calling them baby killers because every military base got taken over by the Palestinians.


I am sending email to NYPD and reporting this hate crime. Every Palestinian should too.
 
. . . . . .
There are two Jewish run countries in the world, Israel and USA, both with roughly 6 million Jews. So, Palestinians and Americans have that in common--being ruled by Jews.

The Palestinians have self-respect and never accepted Jewish rule and are struggling to free themselves. However, the Americans have accepted slavery. Their kissing of Jewish a$$ seems to know no bounds.

During the time of slavery there were the loyal slaves, called Uncle Tom, who served his white master and oppressed fellow blacks. Now we have Uncle Sam who serves his Jewish master and oppresses fellow whites. He makes war and fights and dies for his Jewish master. He becomes gay or transvestite. He shares his women with others. He loses his religion. His children watch transsexual perverts dance naked in school. His women act in **** movies. All for the shekels his Jewish master gives him.

It may be called poetic justice. The white master has become the slave of the Jewish master. He will make war on anyone who looks at his Jewish master the wrong way. He's the best and most loyal slave that Jewish money can buy.

No, Uncle Sam will not be neutral. He will fight to the death for his Jewish master.
Just look at all the American members here, most of them are nothing but zionist programmed sheeple with not a single critical thought in their head.
 
. . .
Screenshot_20231008-210228.png



So who is the aggressor here and who is the defender? Those who get the answer wrong - deserve death!
 
.
The best way to protect Gaza right now would be bringing as many Zionist prisoners as they can and spreading them all over Gaza. Also mujahideen should set up sleeper cells in every city they attack for when Zionist recapture those areas these sleeper cells can make it hell for them. Set up traps in every area liberated so when Zionist attack ti recapture it becomes very bloody. Fight an urban war in Israeli settlements so Zionists suffer mass casualties while bringing as many Zionists alive back to Gaza to protect it from blind aerial bombings and to use as bargaining chips. Don’t rely on others joining the war. If others join that’s a plus. But be prepared for if you have to fight on your own. It would be best if Hamas could find a way to break through and connect Gaza to West Bank. The Palestinians there can be armed and they can help establish a corridor between Gaza and West Bank and cut Israel in two. Southern Israel should then be annihilated. Every illegal settler man of fighting age is a target.
 
.

Pakistan Affairs Latest Posts

Country Latest Posts

Back
Top Bottom