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”.
Death to the IDF
Just imagine resistance groups with as good weapons as the occupier
Hamas is not a “resistance” group.
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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.
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.
I don’t deny anyone any rights. Yes you are
If you feel so strongly, I suggest you join whichever side you feel is the more righteous.
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.
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An image purportedly shows a tank driving over one of the fighters.
That’s pretty normal and not psychotic behavior. /s
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Here is the video of that by the way not sure if anyone wants to see it.
NSFL: https://i.imgur.com/hqWUT8R.mp4
And some background story (unverified)
Middle East Eye is by the way supposedly financed by Qatar and pro Hamas.
Any source or just “supposedly”?
Do you have other sources?
and you are a zionist, pro idf , pro occupation and pro genocide
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