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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust a thought: How did Hamas get all that war materiel through...
Israeli military checkpoints? Gaza is supplied totally through the checkpoints...water, food, clothing, building materials...everything has to come through the checkpoints yet Hamas somehow got thousands rockets, paragliding gear, automatic weapons, the whole works through the checkpoints.
Somebody had to be complicit in letting that happen.
Who? And who benefited from the attack happening?

SickOfTheOnePct
(7,639 posts)Through the Egyptian border crossing.
The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)There are many.
underpants
(188,472 posts)Smuggling in weapons is a regular part of this.
As for paragliding equipment, that isnt normally weaponized so maybe it wasnt stopped.
I dont know.
BannonsLiver
(18,638 posts)C_U_L8R
(46,149 posts)Algernon Moncrieff
(5,961 posts)That will be high on the list of questions, a long with "how are we now seeing alleged training films, yet the Mossad knew nothing?"
My guess, in a broad sense, is that this will be like Pearl Harbor or 9-11 - the pieces were all there but no one assembled the puzzle.
BlueCheeseAgain
(1,983 posts)And the rockets are homemade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qassam_rocket
Too bad the costs for materials for those rockets weren't used for more useful purposes.
Simeon Salus
(1,383 posts)Homemade rockets.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,267 posts)They dig up and use water pipes to make them.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/eu-funded-water-pipelines-hamas-rockets/#:~:text=In%202021%20footage%20emerged%20of,fashioned%20into%20home%2Dmade%20rockets.]
So much for them caring about access to water for their civilians.
blm
(113,943 posts)at the concert and the kibbutz.
Netanyahu ignored warnings.
Cant help but be reminded of Bush. You can only hope they couldnt possibly be capable of letting a tragic event happen.
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Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)Party meetings indicate this. Bibi wanted a functioning Hamas to get in the way of Palestinian independence
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Demovictory9
(34,303 posts)IDF was secure in it's military superiority...