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Hamas duped Israel into thinking it cared more about economic stability than a war, Reuters said.
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Meanwhile, it was practicing for an attack in plain sight, the report said.
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Hamas trained its fighters on a mock Israeli settlement, learning how to storm it, Reuters added.
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The Palestinian militant group Hamas built a mock Israeli town in Gaza and practiced attacking in plain sight — but Israel didn’t react, Reuters reported on Sunday.
Hamas militants launched a surprise offensive on Israel on Saturday, in what has been described as the worst breach in Israel’s defenses in decades.
The attack followed a careful campaign of deception by Hamas that ensured Israel was caught off guard over the weekend, an unnamed source, with connections to the group, told Reuters.
Despite convincing Israel that they had no interest in war, Hamas militants were practicing for the offensive in plain sight by setting up a mock Israeli settlement in Gaza to train its fighters.
Let’s not pretend that this isn’t a huge popularity boost for Netanyahu and the Israeli right. Now they have an excuse for years of military operations and populist propaganda. Israel has a military industrial complex that not even Iran can match. A plausible theory is that they just let it happen. Since they feel like it gives them carte blanche for unlimited retaliation. I fear we will see a Palestinian genocide in this decade.
The Israeli population is furious at Netanyahu for the intelligence failures that allowed this to happen. He may stick around for a unity government while military operations are conducted, but he’s gonna be toast after this.
One can only hope but hes a the point where the courts dont matter to his government so we’ll see I guess. This stinks either way
He just changed the constitution to give himself even more power. He’s not going anywhere that’s not a body bag