Hamas overwhelmed Israel’s border in October with something like a conventional military maneuver. Now, it acts as a guerrilla force, its fighters often disguised as civilians.

An analysis of battlefield videos released by Hamas and interviews with three Hamas members and scores of Israeli soldiers

Using civilian homes and infrastructure — including medical facilities, U.N. offices and mosques — to conceal fighters, tunnel entrances, booby-traps and ammunition stores;
Ambushing Israeli soldiers with small groups of fighters dressed as civilians, as well as using civilians, including children, to act as lookouts;

The video seems to show Hamas fighters, their faces blurred, sitting on patterned mats as they plan the attack. They use pen, paper and a digital tablet to draw simplistic maps detailing where they want to plant a set of roadside mines.
“We ask, O Lord, for the ambush to achieve its goals — let us kill your enemies, the Jews,” the narrator says.

  • @LinkerbaanEnglish
    -2•4 months ago

    Yes I am aware the ANC heavily sold out to the Apartheid after winning. Their members took cushy jobs.

    My point is that the ANC is currently starting to lose ground and other parties are rising up.

    Liberation starts with Hamas but it is not necessarily the party that will define Palestine forever. Hamas always loses popularity in peace time.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      Yes I am aware the ANC heavily sold out to the Apartheid after winning. Their members took cushy jobs.

      My point is that the ANC is currently starting to lose ground and other parties are rising up.

      Which means that, as you said, South Africa is “normalized?” And that’s the sort of normalized you foresee for Palestine?

      Liberation starts with Hamas but it is not necessarily the party that will define Palestine forever. Hamas always loses popularity in peace time.

      Yes, because Palestinians also know that Hamas is not good, just helpful at the moment. You even seem to be admitting it tacitly by saying that, so I’m not even sure what your point is anymore.