Documents found on dead militants after last weekend’s assault on Israel indicate massacres were a central objective.

Written orders carried by Hamas fighters sent to attack Israeli towns and settlements last weekend contained the same chilling command: Kill as many people as possible.

Documents recovered from the bodies of dead militants at the sites of attacks that killed more than 1,300 Israelis point to a deliberate strategy to massacre civilians, Israeli officials said.

The similarity of the orders given to attack teams, along with videos posted by the attackers themselves, eyewitness testimony, and the scale of civilian killings in multiple locations—at least 1,000 in total—suggest that the massacre wasn’t a byproduct of the attack but a central objective.

  • starman2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Lmao yeah they “found” the big super evil battle plans on a random corpse, all cleanly printed on A4 paper with maps and details and everything

    You know how we send all our soldiers out with their orders in the form of unencrypted sheets of paper they got folded up in their pockets? Just in case they forget the plan?

    “What was I doing here?” pulls out Big Evil Secret Plan “Oh yeah, attack the school and kill civilians! How could I forget?”

    Anyone who believes this shit needs to stay home next election day

    It just seems fishy. If this BESP has information that Israel can act on to prevent further attacks, shouldn’t they keep it quiet so Hamas doesn’t know they have to update their plans?

    I don’t believe a damn word I read about this whole situation. It’s too much coverage for a relatively small conflict. Where’s the day-by-day play-by-play of the goings-on in Myanmar? Their civil war has had more casualties in the last two years than the Israel-Palestine conflict has ever. But much like the Russo-Ukraine conflict, it’s too easy for us to point at one side and say they’re the bad guys, so our news doesn’t care. What generates ad revenue is [side you don’t like but your parents do] committing war crimes, and [side you don’t like but your children do] committing even worse war crimes! It doesn’t matter if literally any of it is substantiated, if we can turn families against each other, they’ll click on whatever we have to say, and they’ll believe it.

    • elouboub@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      People out here are so easy to manipulate, it’s friggin’ hilarious. No wonder stuff like QAnon exists.

      Hamas fighters probably had their instructions taped to their forehead so that when they look at each other they remember what they’re there for. “Habibi! I totally forgot why we’re here! Look me right quick so I can remember… Oh right. Kill the children. Got it.”