Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks and in the war in Gaza came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military itself.
For years, analysts have pointed to underground smuggling routes to explain how Hamas stayed so heavily armed despite an Israeli military blockade of the Gaza Strip. But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases.
Intelligence gathered during months of fighting revealed that, just as the Israeli authorities misjudged Hamas’s intentions before Oct. 7, they also underestimated its ability to obtain arms.
The latest chapter at least. Even if Israel kills or displaces everyone in Palestine, the conflict will go on, with renewed vigour from the renewed grievances.
You think if literally everyone in palestine is dead, there will still be a war? A war of renewed vigor?
Displaced as well. Many would be displaced into Jordan and Egypt and it will further inflame and destabilize the populations there. Just instead of Gaza and the West Bank it’ll be more like the situation on the border with Lebanon.
War with Hezbollah bolstered with Palestinians refugees with dead families and nothing to lose for example.
You can’t “just kill everyone”, that’s not how it works. You are essentially trying to kill an idea. No matter what you do, no matter the opression, Palestine won’t stop to exist. Look at Poland as an example - wiped off the map for 123 years. Then it came back when an opportunity struck. Three occupiers, two of them with very harsh opression, yet it came back like a russian nesting doll.
There’s about150 million Arabs next to israel. Killing 2 million of the poorest in Gaza isn’t going to magically solve their problems.