A surprise Hamas attack in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis on Wednesday shocked Israeli forces and prompted the military to brand the security breach a “failure”.
According to Israeli media, between 15-20 Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel and separated into three groups: one to enter an unoccupied building, another to enter a building with soldiers stationed inside, and a third to lay down suppressive fire.
The existence of the tunnel had been previously known to the military, and it had been partially demolished, the Times of Israel said.
Fighting reportedly began when an Israeli officer standing on an upper floor opened fire on a fighter below.
A close-quarter firefight lasting around five minutes ensued between the fighters and about 15 soldiers from Israel’s Nahshon Battalion, which required backup from the air force and a tank.
According to the Israeli reporters, the battle lasted around three hours and no Israelis were killed. Three soldiers were wounded in the attack, the military said, one of them seriously.
Hamas, meanwhile, said its fighters “eliminated several occupation soldiers”, including “the commander of a Merkava 4 tank, fatally wounding him”.
Hamas is not a “resistance” group.
They might not be “the good guys”, and their secondary objectives are despicable, but their first objective is an end to the occupation, and they certainly are a resistance group.
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Killing soldiers of an occupation force committing genocide in gaza in the goddamn battlefield is not resistance?
It’s just two baddies fighting each other.
One baddie is still fighting an occupying force comiting a genocide right now making them resistsnce fighters. Are you denying palestinians right to self defence that international law give them?
I don’t deny anyone any rights. I choose not to participate in this. If you feel so strongly, I suggest you join whichever side you feel is the more righteous. On the ground.
It’s like saying to someone who believe in Ukraine right two self defense to join the Ukrainian army . Very dumb statement from you, you can do better
Are you suggesting that Hamas has suddenly redeemed themselves and are now, no longer internationally recognised terrorists, and instead are resistance fighters?
Are they both?
I don’t deny that the people of Palestine have the right to self determination, and all human rights as is to all people.
But to conflate Hamas as the same as all Palestinians is a slippery slope.
It is indeed shameful and more needs to be done to completely rein in what the Israeli forces are doing. That however, does not change the nature of Hamas as an organization that is themselves also bent on committing genocide against Israel. They were literally want to genocide each other. One side is just more capable.
Hamas can be serving their own agenda and appear as resistance fighters through their action. But when the dust clears, you can be sure their manifesto is far from noble. They are as intolerant as the Israeli forces are right now.
The people of Palestine are caught in the middle and the cycle of hate and pointing continues.
I am just saying that killing occupying force in the battle field who are committing a genocide is resistance but you want to deny this right to Palestinians.
Hamas is more popular than the Palestinians authority and most of Palestinians oppose them disarming because there is no other options. https://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/997
Never in history occupiers left without armed resistance. Which you deny it and that is shameful. If you don’t, tell me which is the legitimate Palestinian resistance . So unless other countries send an army to fight Israel on Palestinian behalf, you will not strip Palestinians right to self defense .
Hamas said they would disarm once occupation end. Even if they refuse if the hypocritical west and Arab countries and Israel let Palestinians has an official army, that army will be in charge of fighting Hamas
Hamas will always be a resistance group that also committed some act of terrorisms whatever you like it or not and Palestinians will never drop arms before the end of occupation.
They definitely committed many act of terrorism but no most countries doesn’t have Hamas in their terrorists list because those list are very political . They may be at best 30 countries of 195 that have them in the terrorist list. Don’t you find weird that no Zionist extremist organizations are in any major western and Arab countries terrorist lists? Why Israel is not recognized as a country that promote terrorism for all the settler terrorists they armed?
Also Mandela was designed as a terrorist and was responsible to some civilian death. Nat turner during his revolt killed innocent children’s. Former resistance groups in India also committed terrorism against British civilians during the Rebellion of 1857
I believe in a one state solution where Hamas members responsible of 7 of October and Israeli leadership responsible of Palestinians massacres will be held accountable
I think we’re more or less on the same page here. I don’t refer to the Israeli forces as terrorist for the same reason I don’t refer to the Russian army as terrorist, as they are both a state organization.
By that definition, if, (and it does seem to be the case) Hamas is the legitimate political lead of Palestine, that does make the ‘terrorists’ the ‘Palestinian forces’.
I also agree the label of ‘terrorist organisation’ is heavily politicised as ‘terrorist’ and ‘rebel’ are relative labels.
We’re on the same page here, the difference being the extent of emotional investment each of us may have.