Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks and in the war in Gaza came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military itself.
For years, analysts have pointed to underground smuggling routes to explain how Hamas stayed so heavily armed despite an Israeli military blockade of the Gaza Strip. But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases.
Intelligence gathered during months of fighting revealed that, just as the Israeli authorities misjudged Hamas’s intentions before Oct. 7, they also underestimated its ability to obtain arms.
Cool. We should probably stop sending weapons to Israel then.
“pick up the gun.”
“I don’t want no trouble mister…”
“Pick… Up… The gun.”
Carefully picks up gun
Bang!
“You all saw him. He had a gun.”
It’s ‘The Hateful Eight’ playing out in geopolitical real life
Oh good. This should end well.
Yeah. My first thought was ‘Surely this means the US will stop arming the IDF. After all, they defunded the UN Palestinian refugee agency that supplies all food in the territory last week over allegations that five people among their thousands of staff engaged in terrorism. No choice but to cut off the IDF too, zero tolerance policy and all.’ /s
This whole thing is a terrible disaster.
Too bad there won’t be an end.
Three months ago I commented a dozen times this was the concluding chapter of a 70-year genocide/colonization, whatever you want to call it.
My stance is about the same.
the concluding chapter
The latest chapter at least. Even if Israel kills or displaces everyone in Palestine, the conflict will go on, with renewed vigour from the renewed grievances.
You think if literally everyone in palestine is dead, there will still be a war? A war of renewed vigor?
Displaced as well. Many would be displaced into Jordan and Egypt and it will further inflame and destabilize the populations there. Just instead of Gaza and the West Bank it’ll be more like the situation on the border with Lebanon.
War with Hezbollah bolstered with Palestinians refugees with dead families and nothing to lose for example.
You can’t “just kill everyone”, that’s not how it works. You are essentially trying to kill an idea. No matter what you do, no matter the opression, Palestine won’t stop to exist. Look at Poland as an example - wiped off the map for 123 years. Then it came back when an opportunity struck. Three occupiers, two of them with very harsh opression, yet it came back like a russian nesting doll.
There’s about150 million Arabs next to israel. Killing 2 million of the poorest in Gaza isn’t going to magically solve their problems.
Wait for the epilogue, it’s twice as long as the book.
That’s fine, there’ll be some legolas type characters, it’ll be cool
More like LegoBlast
This war is four years older than my parents and I think it will outlive my children. When combatants think an eternal god is on their side there’s no way to end it.
I hate religion as much as any sane person but war is about killing people and taking their stuff.
If there wasn’t power, the cheap labour of others and natural resources at stake, the war would be over regardless of what angry sky man thinks on the matter.
Be careful, I think there’s a bot that looks for the words both and sides together and bans you in here.
The Taliban started off with a few AK’s and ended fully equipped with M16’s and all the tacticool gear America has to offer.
Is it unlikely? Sounds like some yahoo was looking for a thinly veiled reason to genocide and claim some land.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
For years, analysts have pointed to underground smuggling routes to explain how Hamas stayed so heavily armed despite an Israeli military blockade of the Gaza Strip.
By either count, years of sporadic bombing and the recent bombardment of Gaza have littered the area with thousands of tons of unexploded ordnance just waiting to be reused.
But other weapons, like anti-tank explosives, RPG warheads, thermobaric grenades and improvised devices were repurposed Israeli arms, according to Hamas videos and remnants uncovered by Israel.
Qassam’s media arm has released videos in recent years showing exactly what they were doing: sawing into warheads, scooping out explosive material — usually a powder — and melting it down to reuse.
In 2019, Qassam commandos discovered hundreds of munitions on two World War I-era British military vessels that had sunk off the coast of Gaza a century earlier.
“The most essential way for Hamas to obtain weaponry is through domestic manufacture,” said Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib, a Middle East policy analyst who grew up in Gaza.
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