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A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery – NYTimes.com

January 11th, 2009 [General, War & Peace]

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A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery – NYTimes.com.

Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership’s war room is a bunker beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli intelligence officials say.

No wonder Hamas was vocally inviting a ground incursion! There’s also a video of a Hamas fighter running away from Israeli soldiers and grabbing a child who was standing nearby, dragging him by his shirt as a human shield. From the reports I’ve heard, this is a pretty common tactic.


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