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Yesterday, 10:13 pm

cyberdora wrote:
^^^ I was referring to HAMAS strategy (Not Israeli).
HAMAS were banking on holding hostages would mollify the IDF response


You think HAMAS don't know about Israel's policy? The policy's goal isn't to kill fellow Israelis, it's to deter kidnappings of Israelis because they don't mind killing the hostages to prevent the kidnapping. It won't work if HAMAS doesn't know about it.

Not just that, Israel has followed through on their policy before, meaning HAMAS also knows they're not playing and has adapted to this policy. What use is a human shield when you know opfor will accept the human shield as collateral damage to eliminate you?

Hezbollah specifically described operational changes in response to the Hannibal Directive in the Wiki article I linked to earlier—in a quote from 2006.

The underlined really seems like a deep misunderstanding of the situation.


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Today, 4:48 am

How do you explain HAMAS having a history of telling it's own citizens to stay put in their homes prior to Israel launching their ground offensive?
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 023-10-13/

An in depth, peer reviewed analysis of HAMAS found their own politbureau openly admit their intention
Hamas politburo member Khalil al-Hayya noted in the wake of the October 7 attack, “Hamas’s goal is not to run Gaza and to bring it water and electricity and such. Hamas, the Qassam and the resistance woke the world up from its deep sleep. “This battle was not because we wanted fuel or laborers. It did not seek to improve the situation in Gaza. This battle is to completely overthrow the situation.” Hamas’ attack was designed to elicit a “disproportionate” response from Israel."

As Hamas leader Haniyeh said in the days after Israel began its retaliatory attacks on Gaza that have resulted in thousands of deaths, “[w]e are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit, so it awakens within us resolve, so it awakens within us the spirit of challenge, and [pushes us] to move forward.”
https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-road-to-o ... clarified/

So taking the hostages into tunnels was meant to further hurt/humiliate and incite the IDF who were already on the warpath. I would let HAMAS leadership's own words speak for themselves