As is well known, Hamas embeds its fighters, its weapons, and its rocket launchers in civilian structures — apartment buildings, schools, mosques, hospitals. It uses the Gazans as human shields, hoping that their presence will discourage IDF attacks. And if civilians are killed, despite the IDF’s colossal efforts to minimize civilian casualties, then their deaths are useful to Hamas, part of the terror group’s propaganda war against the IDF, which stands accused of committing “genocide.”
Our troops found drawings, stuffed animals and the tunnel entrance to where 6 Israeli hostages were held for over 300 days in a terrorist tunnel. The hostages were murdered in cold blood by Hamas.
Hamas hid behind their civilians in order to kill ours. pic.twitter.com/lWTfCt3gqS
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) September 4, 2024
After the murder of the six hostages, and the IDF’s return of their bodies to Israel, it was revealed that they had been kept in a tunnel, the opening to which was located in a children’s play area. More on this ghoulish discovery can be found here: “‘Hamas Hid Behind Civilians’: Entrance to Tunnel Where Murdered Hostages Found Was in Child’s Play Area, IDF Says,” by Jack Elbaum, Algemeiner, September 5, 2024:
The entrance to the tunnel in Gaza where six Israeli hostages were found murdered by Hamas terrorists this past weekend was in a children’s play area, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), underscoring Hamas’s extensive use of civilian infrastructure as protection for its military activity.
“Our troops found drawings, stuffed animals, and the tunnel entrance to where 6 Israeli hostages were held for over 300 days in a terrorist tunnel,” the IDF wrote on X/Twitter on Wednesday.
Video and pictures of the site showed paintings of Disney characters Mickey Mouse and Cinderella on the wall, with a large hole in the ground going down into a tunnel.
The IDF said it was a place where “a child should be safe, not used as human shields for Hamas.”
“Hamas hid behind their civilians in order to kill ours,” the IDF wrote….
Additionally, videos that Hamas has released of its combat often show its fighters in civilian clothing and even using humanitarian aid to prop up rockets.
Hamas fighters wear civilian clothes so that they can easily blend in and disappear among the civilian population whenever they believe that IDF troops are closing in.
Such practices are not a consequence of a lack of equipment but rather a matter of strategy. In June, The Wall Street Journal reported that trying to maximize civilian casualties has been part of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s “brutal calculation” on how to win the war.
Sinwar spoke clearly about how he saw his strategy of putting civilians in danger for the cause of destroying Israel: “These are necessary sacrifices,” he said.
Sinwar doesn’t care if the IDF, in attempting to strike at Hamas operatives as they go in and out of the vast tunnel network the terror group has built under Gaza, ends up striking the civilian structures — mosques, schools, hospitals, and apartment houses — where the entries to those tunnels have been built. He wants civilians to die; their deaths will only make the IDF look bad. Think of the propaganda bonanza if that children’s play area had been hit by an IDF rocket meant for the tunnel entrance built within it. Why should Hamas care about the lives of those little children? “These are necessary sacrifices.”
Walter Sieruk says
There is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically evils that the jihadists of Hamas will commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Therefore, Hamas, should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed by hitting it hard , hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly , vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
gravenimage says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
There is absolutely no limits to the vile, heinous horrifically evils that the jihadists of Hamas will commit because of because of their demonic and malice-filled religion that is Islam.
Therefore, Hamas, should be dealt with defeated and even destroyed by hitting it hard , hit it long and keep on hitting it with strong powerful forceful military strikes until it’s unable to raise up again with its ugly , vicious and deadly jihad Islamic head.
Walter Sieruk says
Those jihadists of Hamas that are always to active in their underground tunnels are very comparable to mole rats.
To any four- legged mole rats have been insulted and offended by my comparing them to those vicious vile heinous brutal cruel malicious and murderous jihadists of Hamas , I do apologize to those mole rats.
Mike says
I’m surprised that the image of Mickey Mouse doesn’t have him in a homicide-suicide bomber’s vest.
Yahya Sinwar needs to be wiped out.
gravenimage says
Some time ago Jihad Watch ran a series of stories on fuzzy animal mascots in the “Palestinian territories” who taught children there violent Jihad on a kids TV program. If I remember correctly, one character was based on Mickey Mouse, and one on Bugs Bunny–I think there was a bee character, as well. Just perverse.
I found one of these stories–this one featuring the bee–but there were many more:
https://jihadwatch.org/2014/05/hamas-to-kids-shoot-all-the-jews
Mike says
I recall the rodent character mascot; he was teaching small kids that the greatest thing that they coukd aspire to do to please God was to “kill Jews.”
In the U.S., if there were a white supremacist group that was teaching small kids to kill Blacks, non-whites, Jews, Latinos, and so on, they’d be roundly condemned by mainstream society, and maybe even brought up on hate-crime and child-abuse charges.
In the Palestinian territories however, this kind of screwy, genocidal, racist bullshit is mainstream.
And these are the people that many of the Leftist government officials want to import en masse into the U.S., Britain, Australia, Canada and other Western countries.
Pray tell, what on Earth could possibly go wrong?
somehistory says
Some months ago….this has been ongoing for nearly a year….the IDF found a tunnel entrance in a child’s bedroom. The photo showed the kid’s little bed right next to the hole.
There is no bottom to the depth of evil to which mozlums will not stoop.
For every evil they sow, they will reap a bitter harvest.
Hudders. says
Is anyone surprised at this?
We already know how they ‘view’ children.
Who can doubt that evil does in fact exist, when time & time again twisted islamic terrorists provide us with clear evidence so?
The sooner Israel wipes these medevial minded monsters off the face of this planet the better.
Deviant disgusting devils.
gravenimage says
Hamas Tunnel Entrance In Children’s Play Area
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*Perverse*. And yet, there are those who *still* scoff at Hamas using human shields in Gaza.
somehistory says
A headline just zipped past before I could click on it, but it said something about ‘tunnels made by hezbollah.’ I searched, and nothing from this month…. lots of articles from as far back as ’19, and as recent as August this year.
A massive underground network, storing a lot of weapons.
And another headline, kind of off topic:
“IDF probing leaks of Hamas papers seemingly aimed at stoking opposition to hostage deal”
“The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday that it had launched an internal investigation after documents recovered from the Gaza Strip were recently leaked to foreign press in an apparent attempt to influence public opinion on the hostage negotiations.
Over the weekend, a report by the German newspaper Bild claimed that a Hamas document found on the computer of leader Yahya Sinwar showed the terror group’s tactics to pressure Israel and stall the hostage talks”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/idf-probing-leaks-of-hamas-papers-seemingly-aimed-at-stoking-opposition-to-hostage-deal/ar-AA1qcZFI?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=9f37d01f21464d6cafc3e2d006e093a2&ei=26
somehistory says
this at the very bottom of a page about iran and the intended attack on Israel..the one they have been threatening since their big hamas ghoul was taken out in their guest house.
“FOX News
Hezbollah relies on ‘sophisticated’ tunnel system backed by Iran, North Korea in fight against Israel”
Rick Olsha says
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