Report: Hamas Deploying Women and Children as Observers, Messengers in Combat Zones
Also, IDF raids Gaza weapons factory, says Iran helping Hamas build guided cruise missiles.
Hamas is not only using captured Israeli men, women, and children as human shields and bargaining chips, the Gaza-based terrorist group is also deploying Palestinian women, children, and even elderly in combat-related roles.
As the Israeli military closes in on top terror commanders hiding in subterranean tunnel systems in southern Gaza, Hamas’s Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar is using “women, boys, and men of all ages” as observers, spotters and messengers to track IDF activities,” the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.
The Hamas operatives even risk infant lives in order to conduct terrorist operations. Several female informants were seen crossing “the street with a baby carriage or children in order not to arouse suspicion,” the newspaper added, citing military sources.
During the current conflict, Hamas has also been deploying women to carry out suicide attacks on IDF ground troops. Israeli soldiers in Gaza have been targeted by female suicide bombers concealing suicide belts underneath their burqa or similar full-body Islamic garb. “They’re covered from head to toe, and underneath, they have an explosive belt,” the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported mid-December, citing an IDF officer.
There is also growing evidence that Hamas is grooming children as suicide bombers. In a disturbing discovery, Israeli soldiers recently found ‘child-sized suicide vests’ during a raid on a terror-linked Gaza medical clinic.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
According to estimates in the security establishment, Hamas surrounds the tunnel system in Khan Yunis – where the top of Hamas is hiding – in various circles of observers and messengers.
These observers can be women, boys, and men of all ages, who report on the location and extent of the IDF forces, and any unusual activity in the area, which can be useful to Hamas’s plans. According to army officers, “some of the observers will stand on the roofs of houses or under the cover of buildings without weapons, only with a walkie-talkie or a telephone, and some of them will probably communicate what is happening with shouts or other signs. Some women will also cross the street with a baby carriage or children in order not to arouse suspicion.”
But the cynical and cruel step, according to army officers, is the use of children who are sent to battle zones and places occupied by the IDF, where there is no reason for civilians, especially children, to be.
Since the beginning of the Israeli ground offensive in Gaza, Hamas has been using Palestinian civilians as human shields while staging attacks on IDF troops. The Islamic terror group has a long history of recruiting women and children as cannon fodder for terrorist activities.
Hamas, while a waging ‘jihad’ on Israel, has no regards for Palestinian lives. In a cynical bid to maximize civilian casualties, the terrorist group has been blocking the movement of Gazans to safe zones designated by the IDF. The Hamas terrorist have also attacked IDF soldiers helping Gaza civilians to evacuate.
IDF uncovers Gaza rocket factory, says Iran helping Hamas build guided cruise missiles
On Sunday, IDF revealed more evidence showing Iranian role in helping Hamas build guided cruise missiles. Israeli soldiers made the discovery while uncovering an underground weapons factory in a Hamas stronghold in northern Gaza.
“Over the past few weeks, the Nahal Brigade combat team in the 162nd Division has been operating in the Daraj Tuffah area in the northern Gaza Strip. In cooperation with the Intelligence Directorate and special forces, the troops located a Hamas strategic tunnel shaft, leading to a 100-meter-long tunnel, in which a weapons production site was located,” the Israeli military said in a press release on Sunday.
The evidence discovered at the site shows that Iran has been training Hamas terrorists on how to build and operate sophisticated guided missiles. “As part of these intelligence efforts regarding this weapons production site, the forces located findings that prove that Hamas terrorists learned – under Iranian guidance – how to operate and build precise components and strategic weapons, and gained technological knowledge in the field,” the Israeli military added.
Troops operating in Gaza City have discovered what the Israeli military says are technological equipment and components used by Hamas to build accurate missiles, a capability which until now the terror group was not believed to possess.
The IDF says Nahal Brigade soldiers and… pic.twitter.com/esUBgKYoVN
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) January 7, 2024
The i24NEWS reported:
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Sunday released evidence of Iranian guidance in Hamas weapons’ production, found during a raid on an underground facility in the northern Gaza Strip.
The IDF’s Nahal Brigade had operated with precise military intelligence in the Derj Tupah area in the northern Gaza Strip, finding a strategic tunnel shaft belonging to the terrorist organization Hamas.
The brigade fighters, along with special forces, breached the area and found a 328 foot tunnel leading to an underground facility for manufacturing weapons, particularly for precision munitions.
“During the raids, many terrorists were eliminated in the area in short-range battles with the brigade’s fighters and in attacks by the brigade’s fire complex by remotely manned aircraft and combat helicopters,” the IDF described the battles.
According to the IDF statement, elements were found inside the underground facility that prove Hamas terrorists learned under Iranian guidance how to operate and build precision components and strategic weapons and gained technological knowledge in the field.
Besides being the biggest financial backer of Hamas’s terrorism, Iran has helped the Gaza-based jihadi group to manufacture precise and long-range missiles to target Israeli cities. Hamas’s rocket arsenal is largely built on Iranian know-how and components. According to a report published by the Jerusalem Post in May 2021, “Hamas rocket technology is based on Iranian technology and has included rockets smuggled from Iran in the past.”
IDF finds, and exposes proof of Iran instructing #Hamas on how to develop and produce precision missiles, other weapons
'It is another example of how deep Iran's involvement is. We must remember we are at war with Iran: direct and indirect,' says Dr. Shai Har-Zvi pic.twitter.com/Xz1Z5o2W13
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) January 7, 2024
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Wm. Empson reported that the early Egyptians had a word meaning “a woman or child,” and wondered what the concept was for it. “No good for fighting” he speculated.
Are you surprised?
This doesn’t sound good!
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2024/01/07/us-intelligence-believes-israel-cant-win-if-they-fight-both-hamas-and-hezbollah-n4925277
Keep in mind, Mark, that “US intelligence” is often an oxymoron.
From what I’ve seen out of the deep state over the past several years I’d take anything out of them with a large grain of salt. Remember, they were the ones that said no peace between Israel and Arab countries could happen without a 2 state solution. Wrong. They also said nothing could be done about the Caliphate Isis was setting up. Trump proved that wrong in a year or so.
Anything coming out of this Biden administration and anything tied to it is compromised. Take anything from them with a pinch of salt as you would anything from Hamas. Both are about as trust worthy as each other.
On things strategical, US Intelligence’s cardinal virtue is how adeptly they handle being surprised by actual events.
Fortunately for us, our safety depends more on each others’ virtues, than our “protectors'” competence. See also “Known Wolf Attacks” re: internal safety.
“Anything coming out of this Biden administration … is compromised.”
Anything coming out The Brandon Administration is a messaging op. Propaganda, chosen to shape people’s responses to The Cabal’s advantage. They don’t wonder whether what they project is true, just if they can get away with it.
The claim is probably propaganda, and if not there are nukes. I ask again, why aren’t enlightened western countries cooperating to squash Iran like a bug. It is enevitable that Iran will have to be destroyed.
I don’t see that this comes as any surprise that a bunch of cowards that would hide behind women and children would also use them in other ways
They’re not cowards, just military capitalizing on Western inhibitions.
They are cowards capitalizing on Western decency.
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The best long term thing to do for those women and children is to go ahead and take them out, if the tactic is no longer effective, they will stop using women and children that way. Tough for those who have to die to make the point, but better for the rest.
Just another demonstration of how Israelis value Gazan lives (I refuse to call them the fabricated term “palestinians”) far, far, far more than the Hamas value the lives of their children. Hamas values the children’s deaths far more because of the propaganda they use them for.
Personally, I say send them all to Allah.
An unwilling combatant is still a combatant. He/she is not a “civilian” or “collateral damage.” He’s an enemy asset that is fair game on the battlefield.
Harsh? If Hamas can play by their own rules, so can the IDF.
I haven’t seen any indication these are unwilling combatants.
It is important go keep in mind that at least 75% of Gazans approve of terror and they willing teach their children to aspire to be terrorists. None of those are salvageable and should be put down, That is the only way to break the culture of terror.