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Not that it's ever prevented smuggling. Curious where all of hamas weapons are coming from.

monocasa 1y ago
There has been smuggling of course, but (perhaps unintentionally) Israel gives them most of what they use. > But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases. > “Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-h...
- FridayoLeary 1y ago
  Also repurposed infrastructure like water pipes and lamposts. But they had plenty of weapons and explosives pre war, before egypt sealed their border to gaza.
  - monocasa 1y ago
    The explosives are the part that obviously should be given the main focus. And quite a bit of what's being talked about wrt to re-manufacturing Israeli unexploded ordance was stockpiled prior to Oct 7th. Israel did not start bombing Gaza only after Oct 7th (and in fact had been bombing Gaza as late as Sept 23, 2023).
- kneelesh48 1y ago
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throw0101d 1y ago
> Not that it's ever prevented smuggling. Curious where all of hamas weapons are coming from. Gaza is on the ocean: they could have been brought in via boat.
- monocasa 1y ago
  To be fair, Israel has had a complete naval blockade of Gaza for some 20 years, and is probably the more effective part of their blockade.
protocolture 1y ago
Well documented that Hamas has people dig up pipes to make rocket/mortar systems. Otherwise the answer is largely tunnels.

There has been smuggling of course, but (perhaps unintentionally) Israel gives them most of what they use. > But recent intelligence has shown the extent to which Hamas has been able to build many of its rockets and anti-tank weaponry out of the thousands of munitions that failed to detonate when Israel lobbed them into Gaza, according to weapons experts and Israeli and Western intelligence officials. Hamas is also arming its fighters with weapons stolen from Israeli military bases. > “Unexploded ordnance is a main source of explosives for Hamas,” said Michael Cardash, the former deputy head of the Israeli National Police Bomb Disposal Division and an Israeli police consultant. “They are cutting open bombs from Israel, artillery bombs from Israel, and a lot of them are being used, of course, and repurposed for their explosives and rockets.” https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-weapons-rockets.html https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/world/middleeast/israel-h...

FridayoLeary 1y ago
Also repurposed infrastructure like water pipes and lamposts. But they had plenty of weapons and explosives pre war, before egypt sealed their border to gaza.
- monocasa 1y ago
  The explosives are the part that obviously should be given the main focus. And quite a bit of what's being talked about wrt to re-manufacturing Israeli unexploded ordance was stockpiled prior to Oct 7th. Israel did not start bombing Gaza only after Oct 7th (and in fact had been bombing Gaza as late as Sept 23, 2023).
kneelesh48 1y ago
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throw0101d 1y ago

> Not that it's ever prevented smuggling. Curious where all of hamas weapons are coming from. Gaza is on the ocean: they could have been brought in via boat.

monocasa 1y ago
To be fair, Israel has had a complete naval blockade of Gaza for some 20 years, and is probably the more effective part of their blockade.

protocolture 1y ago

Well documented that Hamas has people dig up pipes to make rocket/mortar systems. Otherwise the answer is largely tunnels.