Hamas regularly broadcast videos about taking water pipes and turning them into rockets. The mainstream media regularly carried articles about Hamas doing this. Here are some references: EU funded water pipelines despite Hamas boast it could turn them into rockets https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/10/10/eu-funded-water-pipelines-hamas-rockets/ "Hamas was known to have fired rockets made of old water pipes, the researcher noted." Homemade rockets and modified AK-47s: An annotated look at Hamas’ deadly arsenal https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/middleeast/hamas-weapons-invs/index.html Insight: Israel’s Gaza challenge: stopping metal tubes turning into rockets https://www.reuters.com/world/middl...-metal-tubes-turning-into-rockets-2021-05-23/ Gaza’s Rockets: A Replenished Arsenal That Vexes Israel Despite a blockade, Palestinian militants have used help from Iran, ingenuity, Israeli-fired duds and even plumbing pipes to make thousands of rockets with increased range. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/world/middleeast/gaza-rockets-hamas-israel.html Hamas terrorists sabotage Gaza water pipes to turn into missiles How Hamas Turns Water Pipes Into Rockets
Hamas says Israeli tanks forced to retreat from Gaza border after fierce fighting The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says Israeli tanks that advanced near the besieged Gaza Strip were forced to retreat after heavy clashes. “There’s absolutely no ground advance inside the residential neighborhoods in the Gaza Strip. What happened on Salah al-Din Street was the incursion of a few occupation army tanks and a bulldozer,” said Salama Maarouf, the head of the Hamas office in Gaza, in a statement on Monday. Salah al-Din Street is located about 3 kilometers from the Gaza fence. Heavy clashes were reported in the area. “These vehicles targeted two civilian cars on Salah al-Din Street and bulldozed the street before the resistance forced them to retreat.” “There is currently no presence of occupation army vehicles on Salah al-Din, and citizen movement has returned to normal on the road,” the Hamas statement said. Hamas fighters also engaged Israeli forces in a border area east of the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. The Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said Israeli forces trying to enter from the east of Rafah, also in the southern Gaza Strip, were pushed back. Hamas says Israel’s nonstop airstrikes on the frontlines are proof the Palestinian fighters have the upper hand in the battle. The resistance movement says the regime’s limited ground incursion follows its failure to perform a broad operation.
Nothing like an unbiased news source, eh? "Press TV is Iran’s first 24/7 international television news network that broadcasts in English. It started broadcasting in earnest in June 2007. Press TV has strong workforce at its headquarters in Tehran... Five bureaus in the world’s most important cities, namely London, Beirut, Kabul, Damascus and Baghdad, help Press TV to not just report international news faster but to report them more accurately." Yep, those are 4 of the world's "most important cities".
The fact that there doesn't seem to be any footage of any "open areas", and in fact are countless pictures of totally flattened neighborhoods? That "apprehension"? Because they are certainly not comprehending the facts as they sit in their London bureau.
They are destroying buildings with air launched missiles and artillery. That doesn't say anything about the success of the ground incursion.
Israel has stated the plan is to surround Gaza City and then to take it block by block, tunnel by tunnel. Currently the IDF has left an open corridor to the south in the hope that more Palestinian civilians would leave Gaza City -- while they also destroyed Hamas roadblocks that prevented civilians from leaving. For those who think that taking Gaza City will involve hand-to-hand fighting at close quarters are viewing it wrong (even though Hamas would like this). The IDF will methodically take Gaza City street by street - and use technology to address street combat and the tunnels. When Hamas shoots at them from a building, the IDF will either call in an air strike or artillery to level the building. When this process is completed, Gaza City will basically be destroyed with nearly no habitable buildings. Unfortunately this means the residents will not have any structures to move back into. This brings to mind if the actual Israeli plan is to seize northern Gaza as a buffer zone and never let Palestinians reside there again. Leading to the further question of where these people will go -- is the end game to push at least 1.1 million people from Gaza into the Egyptian Sinai?
People are radicalized by mistreatment, sure, but they are also radicalized by exaggerations about mistreatment. "Treated like animals constantly" would qualify as an example. What you describe are conditions between borders of any two nations, but made worse by mistrust between the nations. Have you ever tried to cross the border between Canada and the US at peak hours? Traffic is backed up while people in booths ask stupid questions. I once was on vacation to Canada and took my collection of Native American style flutes for personal entertainment. But the Canadians thought I would be working, as a musician, for profit, without a work permit. I had to take eight out of ten flutes back home before I could cross. And then they put me on a yellow list to harass me ever since. So I don't go there for vacations much anymore, and when I do cross I have to say I'm going to a hockey game or a music concert. I have to do research to back up my stupid story, checking concert schedules, ect. I could claim, then, that I am treated like an animal constantly, and am forced to live in an open air prison. But that would be an exaggeration designed to start a hot war between Canada and the US, which are currently friendly. Now erode formerly friendly relations further, to where those flutes could actually be bombs and the conditions at the border, already bad, could be exponentially worse. What you are describing is a two nation solution where one of the foreign countries is run by a government bent on destroying the other. Under those conditions it's a wonder, how any Gazans at all, are able to cross regularly with any work permits at all.
Your right about Hamas but I think you should confine your commentary analysis to domestic relationships within the US where you have a good 50% chance of being right. For example, do you think Taylor Swift put Travis Kelce on the map? I mean, did you ever hear about him before she started dating him? I didn't! I also think you might have some wisdom to share about Harry and Mexit who are currently based in California since you were so right about that other California couple Johnny Depp and Ambition Heard. Maybe just leave the serious geopolitics to real heavy hitters?