Sunday, July 27, 2014

Hamas captives reveal plot for Rosh Hashana mega-attack

This upcoming humanitarian truce in honor of the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday has a bit of irony to it: Just two days ago it was reported that Hamas was hatching a plot for a mega-attack in which it would send over 200 armed terrorists on multiple missions, creeping through the tunnels and emerging in nearby kibbutzim to kill Israeli civilians in their sleep and take as many hostages as possible.

And what day was this attacked scheduled to take place? On Rosh Hashana.

The plot was revealed through interrogations of several dozen Hamas fighters taken captive by the IDF. According to speculation, it could have resulted in thousands of Jewish casualties.

“Unlike tunnels that I had seen during the Iraq war that were designed for smuggling, this Hamas tunnel was designed for launching murder and kidnapping raids," retired general James T. Conway, USMC, back from a recent trip to Israel, told the Wall Street Journal, describing a Hamas tunnel he saw. "The 3-mile-long tunnel was reinforced with concrete, lined with telephone wires, and included cabins unnecessary for infiltration operations but useful for holding hostages.” 

At this point it remains unclear whether the IDF will agree to the temporary ceasefire, but in either case IDF forces will continue Hamas tunnel demolition operations unabated.

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