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As is well known, Hamas embeds its fighters, its weapons, and its rocket launchers in civilian structures — apartment buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals. It uses the Gazans as human shields, hoping that their presence will discourage IDF attacks. And if civilians are killed, despite the IDF’s colossal efforts to minimize civilian casualties, then their deaths are useful to Hamas, part of the terror group’s propaganda war against the IDF, which stands accused of committing “genocide.”
Our troops found drawings, stuffed animals and the tunnel entrance to where 6 Israeli hostages were held for over 300 days in a terrorist tunnel. The hostages were murdered in cold blood by Hamas.
Hamas hid behind their civilians in order to kill ours. pic.twitter.com/lWTfCt3gqS
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 4, 2024
After the murder of the six hostages, and the IDF’s return of their bodies to Israel, it was revealed that they had been kept in a tunnel, the opening to which was located in a children’s play area. More on this ghoulish discovery can be found here: “‘Hamas Hid Behind Civilians’: Entrance to Tunnel Where Murdered Hostages Found Was in Child’s Play Area, IDF Says,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, September 5, 2024:
The entrance to the tunnel in Gaza where six Israeli hostages were found murdered by Hamas terrorists this past weekend was in a children’s play area, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), underscoring Hamas’s extensive use of civilian infrastructure as protection for its military activity.
“Our troops found drawings, stuffed animals, and the tunnel entrance to where 6 Israeli hostages were held for over 300 days in a terrorist tunnel,” the IDF wrote on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
Video and pictures of the site showed paintings of Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Cinderella on the wall, with a large hole in the ground going down into a tunnel.
The IDF said it was a place where “a child should be safe, not used as human shields for Hamas.”
“Hamas hid behind their civilians in order to kill ours,” the IDF wrote….
Additionally, videos that Hamas has released of its combat often show its fighters in civilian clothing and even using humanitarian aid to prop up rockets.
Hamas fighters wear civilian clothes so that they can easily blend in and disappear among the civilian population whenever they believe that IDF troops are closing in.
Such practices are not a consequence of a lack of equipment but rather a matter of strategy. In June, The Wall Street Journal reported that trying to maximize civilian casualties has been part of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s “brutal calculation” on how to win the war.
Sinwar spoke clearly about how he saw his strategy of putting civilians in danger for the cause of destroying Israel: “These are necessary sacrifices,” he said.
Sinwar doesn’t care if the IDF, in attempting to strike at Hamas operatives as they go in and out of the vast tunnel network the terror group has built under Gaza, ends up striking the civilian structures — mosques, schools, hospitals, and apartment houses — where the entries to those tunnels have been built. He wants civilians to die; their deaths will only make the IDF look bad. Think of the propaganda bonanza if that children’s play area had been hit by an IDF rocket meant for the tunnel entrance built within it. Why should Hamas care about the lives of those little children? “These are necessary sacrifices.”
Were those tunnels really for weaponry?…..or were they for sexual access to children, in the manner of the prophet Mohammed?
Has anyone else noticed that the death toll has slowed considerably in the last seven months? If we’re to believe the numbers given out by the Hamas health ministry, the death toll exceeded 30,000 in early February, and yet it’s taken until August for that number to crawl past 40,000. So, if 30,000 deaths happened between the start of the war (10/7) and early February, that means that 3/4 of the Hamas-reported death toll happened in four months while 1/4 of the death toll happened in six months.
Statistically, that proves that the IDF has prevented as many civilian casualties as they possibly can, given that at least 17,000 of those deaths were of Hamas terrorists and terrorist supporters. Given that, on average, the ratio of civilian deaths to military deaths have historically been between 9:1 and 10:1, the ratio for the current war against Hamas is a little over 1:1.
The IDF should make a concerted effort to go after the Sinwar P.O.S., tie him up to a huge Star of David in Israel and have the population take pot shots at him, until, well, you know.
Oh, does that sound cruel Mr. Leftist? F.U.
How about razor sharp Kung Fu throwing stars …..of David! ~
IF the Israelis were not concerned about the damage to civilians the tunnel systems and everything ABOVE it would have been gone a LONG time ago! Simply filling the tunnels with propane or natural gas or whatever they put in those awesome bombs and igniting them would cause a RIVER of DESTRUCTION wherever a tunnel led! BUT, since their HOSTAGES are there and the carnage to civilians would be horrific, the HUMANE approach has been undertaken! Maybe they should do a “demo” in one of the areas that has already been reduced to rubble!
gazans are COWARDS! Just like all other islamic FILFTH.
Attack. Fight in the open. Do not hide behind children and skirts; seeking cover behind schools and invalids.
Gaza. You know Israel will leave you alone if you do the same to Israel.
My FIL lived in home for 60yrs. He was proud of his house. Then gazan FILTH moved in next door. Music. Noise. Wrecked cars. Trash. No home maintenance. Oh… the list is much longer. When they moved out, the new owner was hit wit with $10Ks of orders to fix/improve the property.
Why not earlier? Was it cultural accommodation?
Interesting how Sinwar sees ordinary Gazans as necessary sacrifices, but is seeking safe conduct for himself as part of hostage negotiations. Such an utterly selfless leader, to be giving up his chance of martyrdom so that others can reap the putative benefits instead.