Israel-Hamas war - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Sky news:
Hamas's armed wing has said it will start executing an Israeli captive for every new civilian house bombed without warning.

The announcement was made by the spokesman of the Qassam Brigades in audio released Monday night.

Abu Obeida claimed the group had, until now, been acting in accordance with "Islamic instructions" by keeping the Israeli hostages safe.

However, he blamed the group's intended move to execute the hostages on Israel's stepping-up of air strikes on Gaza City.

"We have decided to put an end to this and we declare that any targeting of our people in their homes without prior warning will be regrettably faced with the execution of one of the hostages of civilians we are holding," he said.
 
Why not ask them. The IDF have many tools for its use, but using chemical or incindary weapons in a densily populated area is illegal.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure going round peoples houses killing families and hundreds of young people at a music concert is illegal too.
Don't see you condemning that for some strange reason...
 
1500 dead militants found in Israel. I wonder how big Hamas actually is.
 
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Low 10s of thousand strong but only just over 10K actual (trained, etc.) fighters - probably can surge to mid 10s of thousands by forcing able bodied to fight for them.
It's a strange mindset to attack a country that can summon up 100's of thousands of trained soldiers. I still think they have screwed up massively and really did believe they would be getting help from other groups.
 
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You can use that logic to justify literally anything, can't you.

"If they hadn't wanted Israel to murder every living Palestinian, they should have thought about that before becoming terrorists and doing what terrorists do."

I guess there are no innocent Palestinians, either... they're all the same as Hamas, yes?
No, there's lots of innocent Palestinians. But what did people think would happen?
 
It's difficult to see what Hamas' end game is supposed to be here, unless it's to go down in a blaze of martyred glory. I cannot see them benefiting from the current chaos, whether in the short or long term. So what was the ultimate goal?
Kill a load of Israelis, watch the inevitable Israeli retribution, fuel more terrorism.
The IDF have said Hamas leaders aren't even in Gaza, they are hiding away safely in places like Quatar. I remember years ago when Mossad used to send death squads around the world after terrorist leaders, wouldn't surprise me if we see that happening again over the next few years.
 
IF the baby thing is true, and I really,really hope it isn't, then anything the Israelis have done up to now will pale into insignificance.
I really hate all this twitter 'rumour' stuff though, there's too much of it in the Ukraine thread as it is.
 
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