HAMAS Needs Children to Die
The October 7 battle strategy for HAMAS was ‘When we kill Jewish babies, they will come to kill Palestinian babies. Either way, we win.'
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Injured Palestinian children caught in the middle of the Israel-HAMAS war. (Photo: ITV television)
Palestinian Children are HAMAS’s secret weapon
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) led by the Israeli Air Force (IAF) is world renown for delivering punishing blows to terrorist enemies. They often use such devastating fire power, in the dense urban forest of the Gaza Strip, that civilians regularly suffer. In the smoke and dust from a distant TV camera, these strikes may look indiscriminate, but they are quite precise. Make no doubt, the IAF hits what it aims at. But regrettably innocent people within the blast effects are both killed and injured.
But only one side of this conflict planned for the deaths of Palestinian civilian population as an integral part of their strategy. That is the terrorist group HAMAS.
It is horrible to watch the lives of innocent people, especially children and the elderly be lost in war as if they were completely disposable. For those who have spent time in the Middle East North Africa region you know that children are literally everywhere. I can barely remember a moment when I lived in the Muslim world where kids were not all around me. Laughing with me, kissing me, handing me candy, singing songs, showing me their toys, pulling on my hair and talking nonsense to me. They are easy to love. It is natural one wants to protect them, Yet, in the Middle East children are always the most immediate and impacted victims. Especially from terrorists.
The cities on the Gaza strip are unlike most urban combat environments in the Middle East. The Gaza Strip is 25 miles long by almost 4 miles wide. Virtually every inch of that land is filled with multistory apartment buildings. In the intervening seventeen years since the expulsion of the Palestinian Authority from Gaza, HAMAS has spent every dollar of aid they were given to weaponize the entire area and build an underground fortress beneath those apartments.
Did HAMAS build even the most rudimentary protections for its people, like concrete bus stops that could double as shelters? No. They did not. Regardless of what form of war that would come to Gaza, the Palestinian population would be caught between Israeli and Hamas gunfire without any protection.
The Gaza Strip's concrete underground terrarium was not designed to protect anyone but the terrorist group. The intent was clearly to allow the Israelis to bombard the city with abandon but not expose its fighters to harm or degrade combat capability. They had to have factored in from the start that Gaza City above them would be leveled by the Israelis. So be it.
HAMAS’s premise for war both accepted, and approved of the fact that civilians would be sacrificed in horrific numbers. It was also an integral part of the war plan to use their dead bodies as a strategic weapon against Israel.
HAMAS Terror Strategy: Turn Our People into Human Sponges, not Human Shields
Only Hamas fighters enjoy underground protection from Israeli bombs with 500km of tunnels built with aid money. (Photo: Reuters)