Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.
Maps and documents recovered from the bodies of Hamas attackers reveal a coordinated plan to target children and take hostages inside an Israeli village near Gaza.
I wouldn’t trust anything “found” by Israeli intelligence. Having said that, according to article, these are plans for:
Hamas units to surround and infiltrate villages and target places where civilians, including children, gather.
Which is reasonably close to what happened. Given how direct and quick the strike was, it’s reasonable to assume that plans of that nature exist.
Then again, October 7th was a a Saturday and a holiday and Hamas attacked early in the morning. If they wanted to kidnap kids, it wouldn’t make sense to target schools.
No they absolutely keep their top secret plans printed on hundreds of fliers detailing the atrocities they plan to commit, just in case they’re captured so the whole world learns their “secret” plans that they printed at Kinkos and becomes even more enraged and hits their civilians harder. It’s definitively how real war is done in real life, but I mean obviously by mindless monsters not worthy of the land they’ve continually been forced out of because they’re rabid babykilling Islamic animals hellbent on an antisemitic hell crusade and this map of elementary schools we found totally proves it!
(Yeah, it’s probably propaganda. Israel is about to/is doing genocide in the spotlight and they need justification)
It's fascinating that you felt the need to edit your comment because just addressing the facts in the present case wasn't enough. Even though the facts might be true and despicable, you still need to make it clear what side you're on, you can't just say what you think is true.
If both parties are both acting in good faith, but Israel has been doing nothing but making excuses for its wholesale genocide. Their actions make their credibility suspect.
I call bullshit. Carrying around "top secret" plans conveniently printed out, and the medics happen to find them in perfect condition in the middle of a warzone.
The article literally says that the plans match the tactics and movements seen/recorded in the raid of this kibbutz and others. Dumb for them to bring the documents with? Yes. Still the exact way it happened? Also yes.
Irrelevant. Let's assume that Hamas did indeed target schools, hospitals, etc. That's awful, but it doesn't justify what Israel is and has been doing to the Palestinian people. Two wrongs don't make a right, it just makes more wrong.
Nobody suggested anything justified anything, and nobody wants you to make an assumption. Here's hard evidence of the thing you don't believe, and you're trying to distract from it with an unrelated point.
The documents were found on the bodies of Hamas terrorists by Israeli first responders and shared with NBC News.
Those documents - one, two - are remarkably unspoiled for what they supposedly went through: printed and distributed by a leader, handed over to the terrorists, reviewed (probably multiple times), stuck in a backpack or pocket, brought into an Israeli area, maybe referred to while there, in at least one firefight / battle, recovered from the bodies, passed around by Israeli first responders, then handed over to NBC.
All that, and not a speck of dirt or drop of blood? And the terrorists must have handled them very gently, because aside from one bent-over corner, there isn't a single crease to be seen - not even the corner where the plans were stapled together has been flattened, just gently held open. Remarkably pristine, those Hamas terrorists, even during infiltration, battle, and death.
yeah nobody gives a shit about keeping secrets secret, you must be new to... reality. of course they're going to bring a map with them—if anybody tried telling them not to, they're dumbasses.
I'm complimenting them and their mothers on how well they were raised, to take such good care of their possessions. Even while they're running, fighting, and dying, they really managed to keep those documents in tip-top shape - that takes real dedication, and shows their mothers raised them properly.
In your everyday activities, are you running, crouching, pressing yourself against the side of a building, maybe lying down? Are you routinely flinging yourself out of the line of fire? It's 80°F in Israel today, they've been running and fighting, probably had to look at the map once or twice and yet there's no sign of sweaty fingers that have handled the documents? I'm sure they stopped in the middle of their infiltration, too, to wash their hands.
You seem to be implying you think this is faked because it doesn't comply with how you expect the documents to look. It took you less than a couple hours since this was posted to think this conspiracy theory up. If these documents were faked, don't you think the Israeli intelligence community would also have considered the same issues you raised and properly dirtied them to make sure they had the necessary dirt and blood to meet your specific definition of 'authentic'? The ultimate implication here is that you think you have thunk up a gotcha in a few hours that Israeli Intelligence were incapable of thinking up. That's very arrogant.
Oh wow, what a coincidence finding such great quality paper with no tears, no blood, nothing just casually on top of a dead Hamas fighter and a TOP SECRET one as well!
Sadly with the all these unverified claims by Israel these past few days, I’m not sure if this is any different.
Don't forget about ukraine, though. Russians are literally stealing kids, and have legit torture chambers for civilians.
Dons tinfoil hat
The whole Hamas attack makes me think that it is a ploy to take focus off the Ukrainian war, given the backing by Iran, a close ally of Russia. It also serves mutlipe objectives of the perpetrating countries
.... I've been reading all about all this detailed intelligence that Hamas had on the inner workings of the Israeli military around Gaza. Like, they knew exactly which unmarked installations were military. And they knew that if they took out the cell towers, it would cripple their communication at the border....
.... which is the kind of key operational information that Israel would only share with its very close, key allies....
.... the closest and key-est of which was run by someone who is under indictment for mishandling classified intel, and quite possibly selling some of it....
There's no way Donald Trump willingly sold Israel's secrets to Hamas -- I don't think he's even that dumb -- but it is plausible that he sold them to the Russians, and then they mysteriously "leaked" to Hamas, somehow. Or maybe he sold them to the Saudis, who don't really like Hamas but maybe there is a Hamas sympathizer there who took the documents.
And an even worse thought is that he didn't sell them at all, but willingly gave them to Putin out of friendship, or showed them to some random at Mar-A-Lago who happened to be a Hamas spy with cameras in his eyeglasses.
It reads like bad fan fiction, but so much of modern US politics does these days.
but it is plausible that he sold them to the Russians
More that he bragged about the info to somebody in Russia who was helping him out with his campaign, and that somebody went to Putin saying "you'll never believe what that idiot showed me." And then Russia thought "hey, that'll distract from all the other shit we do!" Ukraine included, but that's really not the end of it.
For what it's worth, they've been planning the attack for a long time. And Iran was also a big supporter.
it doesn't look "pristine" or "fresh" to me. I don't know why it would be surprising that there aren't dirt or blood stains in them. Most pockets don't get dirt and blood stains all over them in war, some just stay closed. If a soldier has 20 pockets and a bullet goes through one of them, that's usually it, the other 19 are usually safe. Not to mention packs.
The map looks folded up and kinda wrinkled. That makes more than enough sense for a map than "oh yeah, make sure you smear blood and dirt all over it to prove it was taken off a body!"
there's nothing remotely suspicious about this, you people are just desperate to believe what a known terrorist organization tells you.