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Hamas has added up to 15,000 fighters since start of war, U.S. figures show (www.japantimes.co.jp)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Palestinian militant group Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 members since the start of its war with Israel, according to two congressional sources briefed on U.S. intelligence, suggesting the Iran-backed fighters could remain a persistent threat to Israel.

The intelligence indicates a similar number of Hamas fighters have been killed during that period, the sources said.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Decimating peoples' homes turns them into radicals? I am surprised!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There must be some other explanation. I mean if the killed my grandparents, parents and a few siblings, maybe a kid or two etc., I'd not hold any grudges.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, you're supposed to just turn the other cheek!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Shocking!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And the cycle continues. Next up it's 5-15 years of low volume rocket fire from Palestine to Israel until full scale war breaks out again and Israel goes in to level the place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Honestly, after the sheer volume of destruction that happened in this "war" I doubt they'll get away with just low volume rocket fire. Gazans have just went through the second Nakba; expect more violence in the years to come.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Who would expect, that israelis murdering every non-jew would turn the victim families into radicals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Fuck israel, Palestinians have any and all means available to them under international law as people under a brutal occupation to dislodge the parasite.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Calling it a war is intentionally misleading. Genocide, ethic cleansing. Did you hear netin suckadick yahoo said about Hitler not wanting to hurt Jews, but rather putting the Holocaust on one middle east guy. What a twat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Who would have thought that murdering, raping, and pillaging an entire sect of people would have turned passive into activist, activist into active?