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12. Something still doesn't sit right....
Sat Nov 18, 2023, 04:39 AM
Nov 2023

...with me.

Gaza is a very small area. Above gound ballistic weapons and they're movement would be easily tracked by satellite imagery. The same with any work being done on tunnels, movement of militant groups or supplies, etc, otherwise they wouldn't need tunnels. Covert communications are listened to daily all over the world. And pinpointing targets to destroy individual equipment, tight locations, and even individual human targets is commonplace warfare.

I read a report (with photos) of the IDF showing off an entrance to one of the 'tunnels'. Tunnels are connected, if the IDF has gained access to any point in the hamas tunnel network, then the IDF has gained access to the entire network and every person and thing in it, which is being presented as hamas' core physical infrastructure. If their tunnel network is infiltrated, so are any weapons, communication equipment, supplies, etc. Basically game over.

Again, Gaza is small, this is not a huge sophisticated network by any means.

IDF is a multi-billion dollar operation backed by the intelligence and technology of the world's largest military.

I don't see any legitimate reason why Israel has not already succeeded in destroying the physical attributes of hamas, and apparently they're not even trying to destroy the ideological aspects that keep it alive.

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