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Gallant reveals document from top Hamas commander warning Sinwar of dire losses

2024-09-12

[IsraelTimes] IDF strikes Hamas command center in Nuseirat school-turned-shelter, announces earlier killings of Hamas operatives who participated in Oct. 7, guarded hostage Noa Marciano

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday revealed a document he said was written by the former commander of Hamas
Hamas

..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
’s Khan Younis Brigade in southern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Rafa’a Salameh, and addressed to Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his brother Muhammad, in which the commander described the "difficult situation" in which the terror group had found itself.

Salameh, a criminal mastermind of the terror group’s October 7 massacre, was killed in an Israeli ~~Arclight~~ airstrike
...KABOOM!...
in southern Gaza in July that also killed senior Hamas commander Muhammad Deif.

In the letter, he wrote: "Please consider the following: We maintain the remaining weapons and equipment, as we have lost 90-95 percent of our rocket capabilities; and we have lost some 60% of our personal weapons; we have lost at least 65-70% of our anti-tank launchers and rockets," according to excerpts provided and translated by the Defense Ministry.

"Most importantly," he continued, "we have lost at least 50% of our fighters between those who are martyred and maimed, and now we are left with 25%. The last 25% of our people have reached a situation where the people do not tolerate them anymore, broken on a mental or physical level."

Gallant said the document showed "a real hardship that affects Hamas and affects the most senior commanders."

Salameh "cries out for the help of the Sinwar brothers, but of course they cannot save him," Gallant said.

"Why? Because we are continuing the effort that started in October and continues step by step... and reaches all senior Hamas officials. He wrote this to the Sinwar brothers, we will get to them as well," the defense minister continued.

Yahya Sinwar is the leader of Hamas in Gaza, and is considered a criminal mastermind of the group’s October 7, 2023 attack, when thousands of gunnies invaded southern Israel from the Gaza Strip, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, starting the ongoing war.

Sinwar was last month appointed as the head of the terror group following the July 31 liquidation of previous leader Ismail Haniyeh
...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank...
. His brother Muhammad is a senior commander in Hamas’s military wing.

Gallant’s presentation of the document came on the same day as two Israeli soldiers were killed and several others maimed in a helicopter crash attempting to extract a third, seriously maimed soldier from the battlefield. The crash was not a result of enemy fire.

Gallant also published a video on social media Wednesday from the same facility, showing a photo of Muhammad Sinwar’s children posing in front of a depiction of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in the United States. The photo was discovered recently in a tunnel underneath Khan Younis, Gallant said in the video, which was posted on the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy had come up with a new idea, one that didn't involve kerosene...
an Israeli airstrike Wednesday in central Gaza struck a group of Hamas operatives at a command room embedded within a former school. According to the military, Hamas was using the al-Jaouni School in Nuseirat to plan and carry out attacks against troops and Israel. The school has been serving as a shelter for displaced Gazooks.

Hospital officials reported 14 people killed, including two children, in the strike.

The IDF said it carried out "many steps," including using precision munitions, aerial surveillance and other intelligence, to limit civilian casualties in the strike.

"The Hamas terror organization systematically violates international law, brutally exploiting civilian institutions and the population as a human shield for terror activity," the military said.

In recent months, dozens of airstrikes have been carried out against Hamas sites embedded within schools and other sites used as shelters for civilians, according to the IDF.

The IDF also announced on Wednesday that recent airstrikes in Gaza had killed two Hamas gunnies who participated in the October 7 onslaught, one of whom was involved in guarding Cpl. Noa Marciano, an kidnapped soldier who was killed by Hamas at Shifa Hospital and whose body was recovered in November.

A separate dronezap recently killed Ayman Khaled Ahmed Abu al-Yahni, who the IDF said was a member of Hamas’s elite Nukhba force and was involved in attacking the Erez Crossing during the October 7 onslaught, the military announced.

Posted by:trailing wife

#5 Until there is no one left to bemoan 'dire losses' it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Glenmore 2024-09-12 19:57

#4 ^ No need for a Takata Air Bag recall on that vehicle

Posted by: Frank G 2024-09-12 18:30

#3 Muhammad Abu Atiya, terrorist who murdered Master Sergeant Maxim Rozinkov, eliminated

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-09-12 15:44

#2 Any mention in the letter about a floating pier

Posted by: Airandee 2024-09-12 06:37

#1 The Netanyahu-IDF strategy appears to be working. Please continue.

Posted by: Besoeker 2024-09-12 04:42

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