The house of Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh — quite a palace, apparently, in the posh Al-Shahi neighborhood of Gaza City — was hit by the IDF on November 4. Haniyeh was not at home; he prefers to sit out the war in a five-star hotel in Doha, like a number of Hamas leaders. He is no doubt passing the time, or some of it, by counting up his money, which by this point exceeds $3 billion, all of it stolen from the foreign aid meant for the people of Gaza. He is joined in Doha by Khaled Meshaal and by Mousa Abu Marzouk, two other Hamas leaders who have their own fortunes — $4 billion and $3 billion, respectively — to look after.
Elder of Ziyon explains here why the IDF chose to hit Haniyeh’s house on November 4:
We sometimes hear reports of Israel bombing the houses of Hamas members or their families, as happened yesterday with the Gaza house of Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh, who is safe in Qatar. So why bomb them? Doesn’t it seem like petty revenge? Here’s why. Hamas homes have tunnel entrances, as this thread from Doron Kadosh shows. https://twitter.com/Doron_Kadosh/status/1721064104075374754
Those entrances are a means for terrorists to pop out and shoot at soldiers. They are absolutely military targets. They must be destroyed to protect IDF soldiers. That is a large reason for the huge amount of devastation. The IDF needs to neutralize a huge military advantage Hamas built (on the backs of Gazans) with these hundreds of kilometers of tunnels. And the tunnels are mostly built underneath commercial and residential areas. Every time Israel targets something in Gaza, there is a very good reason. The media and NGOs don’t know the reasons so they assume malice instead of trying to understand the reasons. And that is just another kind of antisemitism.
The house of Ismail Haniyeh has hidden inside entrances into the network of terror tunnels that run — 313 miles of them — throughout Gaza. Fighters can run into the house and then directly from there into the warren of tunnels where weapons are also hidden, and make their way in those tunnels everywhere in the Strip, without ever having to appear above ground. They can live, and sleep, in the tunnels. And they can also pop out, going from the doors that connect the tunnels with Haniyeh’s house, and then from his house into the street to surprise IDF soldiers with fire from their kalashnikovs, or with RPGs firing at armored vehicles or even tanks. In what way is his house not a military target?
In fact, Hamas has turned many of the “innocent” buildings in Gaza into military targets. It routinely hides weapons inside schools, including those run by UNRWA. And when it hits those schools, after ensuring that they are empty, to destroy the weapons hidden within, the world reacts with denunciations of the IDF for “bombing schools.” No, it did not “bomb schools.” It bombed weapons hideouts inside those schools, and made sure that no one was inside before launching its airstrikes to destroy those weapons.
The IDF, according to Hamas, has bombed 15 mosques in Gaza. An unheard-of war crime, we are expected to believe, this unhinged bombing of religious buildings. But all of those mosques were places where not just weapons, including both rockets and rocket launchers, RPGs, grenades, and rifles have been stored, but also had doors leading into the tunnel network. In that way the Hamas terrorists, on the run from the IDF soldiers patiently clearing the streets of Gaza City, moving house to house, could head directly into these mosques, through the hidden doors inside leading to the tunnels, and there they could hide, or travel through miles of tunnels to hide anywhere along the network, only one-fifth of which — 100 kilometers — has yet been destroyed. Of course the terrorists could also make the reverse journey, waiting inside the tunnels, listening for the sounds of gunfire and explosions above to pinpoint where the IDF soldiers were, then popping up inside the mosques and then out onto the street, in order to ambush those soldiers combing the neighborhood. As with Haniyeh’s villa, the use to which these mosques have been put means they have become legitimate military targets.
The next time someone shouts about Israel attacking “civilian homes, schools, mosques,” let them know exactly what is stored in those buildings, and how they have become essential points of entrance to, and exit from, the network of tunnels that is Hamas’ most important line of defense.
somehistory says
Some guy in an article I read yesterday, asked how did Israel know which houses had hamas members inside when they didn’t know of the attack beforehand…referring to their intellegence.
Even if no homes were hit, and hamas had its name on buildings and vehicles, the claims would be the same…no matter what Israel does.
And this from al jeerza
“A cartoon in the Washington Post’s opinion section has triggered controversy and sparked anger over its “racist” and “orientalist” depiction of Arabs and Palestinians.
Titled, Human Shields, it depicts a man in a dark, striped suit, which has Hamas in bold white letters emblazoned on it, for the Palestinian group.
The man’s eyebrows are arched, his nose is comically large. He has four children strapped to his body, including a baby positioned on his head. A woman – veiled and docile – and meant to represent Palestinian women, cowers behind him.
The man is lifting a finger and the thought cloud above him reads: “How dare Israel attack civilians?” According to the cartoon, published on November 6, he is Hamas.
The title as well as the depiction of children and a woman tied to him, appear to reference allegations by Israel, which are often repeated by Western leaders and echoed by many mainstream media outlets, that Hamas uses human shields.”
Burnaby Lad says
“vehicles”
in Ukraine warrior mode military communications use 25% more gas
libertyORdeath says
We seriously gotta get some knowledgeable voices on our side – like Mr. Spencer or David Wood – to help educate the chronically misinformed American public about the specifics and history of this conflict.
I’ve heard more Islamist propaganda from “conservative” Americans in the past few weeks than I have EVER heard about a foreign conflict in my entire life.
They’re parroting Hamas propaganda about the ridiculous number of supposed “civilian” casualties compared to actual terrorists killed or wounded.
They’re comparing the “Palestinians” to the American patriots for God’s sake.
They know NOTHING about the history or religious motivations. All they seem to know is that they hate Jews, and that any enemy of Israel is a friend to American patriots. How sad and misguided.
How are they all suddenly full of anti-White and anti-colonialist Marxist propaganda on this ONE specific issue?
OLD GUY says
Haniyeh is in a 5 star resort hotel in Doha, so go get him. If he’s wanted bad enough, there is no escaping the ability and ways the under cover world could get him. Accidents happen daily.
Burnaby Lad says
under cover
on 3 October Pakistan ordered all undocumented immigrants, nearly 1.73 million Afghan nationals to return home because half of the 24 suicide bombings this year were by Afghans
OG i think proxy-stan aka pure is up to something