IDF fakes left, goes right, destroys miles of Hamas tunnels

In an earlier post, I wrote that the Israeli Defense Forces were forming up to initiate a ground assault in Gaza because that's exactly what Israel wanted Hamas to believe, so they put it out on their IDF Twitter feed and Hamas took the bait.

This post is a correction, but a thankful one.

The assault started with a "head fake" whereby the IDF told the foreign press that Israeli ground forces had entered the Gaza Strip. It was a ploy to trick Hamas into sending their terrorists into the tunnels, or "the metro," as the IDF refers to them. And of course, they did go into them hoping to enter Israel and kill as many Jews, whether it be man, woman or child, that they could.

So Israel faked left and cut right.

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) in a massive bombardment of Hamas’s Gaza tunnel network overnight from Thursday to Friday destroyed miles of terror tunnels and killed what they believe to be dozens of Hamassholes. Israel hopes this will be a decisive phase of the conflict.

“We shut down the Hamas tunnel network,” a military source said in an epic understatement.

Tunnels destroyed

The tunnels were used by Hamas to fire rockets and also to store weaponry, including rocket launchers, the TV report said. In an Israeli ground offensive, Hamas terrorists emerging from the tunnels would have tried to kill and capture IDF soldiers, as was the case in previous conflicts. Not this time.

The bombing was the largest Israeli strike since the outbreak of fighting earlier in the week, according to the IDF.

About 160 IAF jets simultaneously conducted the huge attack on "the metro." According to the IDF, the attacks lasted roughly 40 minutes in which 450 bombs were dropped on 150 targets in north Gaza, focusing around the city of Beit Lahiya. Overall, 160,000 pounds of explosives were used.

Israel isn't yet clear as to the extent of damage to the tunnels, which is a "strategic asset" according to IDF spokesman Hidai Zilberman. The number of scumcrumpets killed in the tunnels is also unknown.

“Hamas itself may not yet know” regarding how many of its s**theads were killed, the TV report said, adding that many Hamasshole commanders were believed to have been among the gunmen in the tunnels.

The commander of the IAF’s Nevatim airbase, Omer Tishler, told Channel 12 that “actions such as this, so damaging to the enemy,” would likely “make the enemy want to stop… but in any case we will continue [to target Hamas] as long as is necessary.”

In a statement earlier Friday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted: “I said we would strike Hamas and other terror groups with significant blows, and we are doing so. In the last day we have attacked underground targets. Hamas thought it could hide there, but it cannot.”

In addition to the aerial assault, Israeli tanks, artillery cannons and infantrymen on the Gaza border conducted accompanying barrages at Hamas operatives — specifically anti-tank guided missiles and rocket-launching teams — who came out during the assault to conduct attacks on Israeli targets, Zilberman said. 

He added that ground troops never crossed the border but they sure did a great head fake.

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