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.
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 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.
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.
War with Hezbollah bolstered with Palestinians refugees with dead families and nothing to lose for example.
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.