You’ll Never Believe Where Hamas Hid a Military Headquarters (Actually, You Will)

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by STEPHEN GREEN

The Israel-Hamas war took a totally expected turn over the weekend as Israel Air Force (IAF) jets, helicopters, and drones pounded terrorist outposts hidden in the darnedest places.

I’ll also give you a preview of what might be coming next in this war, but first, today’s big story.

While the heaviest fighting continues in Gaza, on Sunday IAF warplanes struck a headquarters compound hidden beneath a mosque in the West Bank city of Jenin. At least two are known to have been killed in the airstrike. Israeli officials said those killed belonged to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and were involved in planning an “imminent terror attack” from the compound.

The strike was also notable because while Jerusalem rarely uses air power in the West Bank, this was the second time IAF planes have hit the Palestinian-controlled region in recent days.

Hiding military or terrorist assets under a mosque is the act of a coward. Maybe not as cowardly as sending terrorists — which the BBC’s moral freakshow helpfully described as mere “gunmen” — to murder partygoers and toddlers, but it’s along the same general lines.

I’m certain we’ll see many more examples of such cowardice as the ground phase of the war begins in earnest over the next few days or weeks.

“In Gaza,” historian and strategist Edward Luttwak warned on Friday, “there are no visible military facilities, while Hamas fighters can shed their fashionable black outfits and dress like civilians.” Nevertheless, Israel does know where to find Hamas soldiers, hidden in their “fixed, immovable targets.”

“These are the deep tunnels,” Luttwak wrote, that are “too deep for aerial bombing. Hamas has been lining them in “concrete for more than 10 years, using construction equipment and vast quantities of cement donated by different governments and international organisations” to build apartments for refugees. Hamas diverted many of those resources to protect, house, and arm their own terrorists.

Inside those tunnels are the assembly lines for Hamas’s rockets, command posts, weapons and ammunition depots, and “even deeper tunnels [that] house its leaders’ lodgings and headquarters.”

Hamas did a lot of digging, certain that Israel lacked the guts to send in the tanks and infantry necessary to root it out. But now, according to Luttwak, tanks and heavily armored infantry fighting vehicles will “escort combat engineers to their job sites” in Gaza where they will descend into the Hamas tunnel network, plant demolition charges, and end the terror campaign once and for all. “While Israel’s aerostats with cameras, satellite photography, and the pictures generated by radar returns cannot reveal tunnels, they have been used to monitor where cement-mixer trucks have stopped over the years. They cannot pinpoint tunnel entrances by doing so, but they can at least identify places worth exploring.”

They’ll do so while taking fire from hidden snipers, mortars, and rocket attacks.

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If you want to kill a weed go for the root

Rare for the IDF to hit any property in West Bank.
But, Abbas, who rules Fatah and West Bank refuses to say one bad word about Hamas.
So, if Israel found Hamas was hiding their top officers in West bank, thinking they’d be safe, it’s great that they were mistaken and now dead.

Heed the words of Stonewall Jackson after the recapture of Fredericksburg. When asked what should be done about the Union soldiers that pillaged the town, Jackson replied, “Kill them. Kill them all.” So it should be with Hamas and anyone else that chooses to serve as Iran’s bitch.

Hamas, hezbollah nor the moslem brotherhood serve no purpose for the human race. All should cease to exist.

The UN is one of the biggest supporters of the Radicals this of how many terrorist supporting Nations belong to the United Nations