Gaza is a Hamas military base
17 January 2024
In 2024, the Gaza Strip (Gaza) functions as a Hamas military base of 141 square miles (25 x 6 miles). Hamas, the governing body, has an estimated 30,0000-40,000 active fighters but it also is supported by the 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. These Palestinians are not innocent of Hamas’s activities because they:
Elected Hamas to form their government in 2006, knowing that Hamas was a terrorist organization committed by its charter to the destruction of Israel. This makes them responsible for Hamas’s activities. To date, Palestinians have continued to support Hamas and have taken no significant actions to try to dislodge Hamas from its government.
Enroll their children, approximately 100,000 in 2023, in camps run by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that promote terrorist ideology. Palestinians also participate in other indoctrination, such as the Hamas magazine that glorifies Hamas martyrs and stresses the importance of following their example.
Build and maintain the Gaza Metro, an extensive tunnel system now estimated to be 350-450 miles long that Hamas uses as military bases and arsenals, to move its forces undetected and to protect its top commanders.
Build the extensive Hamas weapons systems. Three months after the war began, Hamas is still able to launch large rocket attacks, demonstrating how thoroughly these weapons are distributed and hidden throughout Gaza.
Provide administrative support for Hamas, including its terrorist activities.
Provide an “innocent face” that much of the world clings to, which allows Hamas to commit terrorist activities more readily since Hamas uses nonmilitant Palestinians as human shields.
Help Hamas hide their personnel, weapons systems and tunnel entrances within residential areas, schools, mosques and hospitals.
Help Hamas hide the hostages it has kept for over 3 months.
Promote the Hamas cause by serving as martyrs, both as Hamas fighters and as
"puppets” of Hamas:
In the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, Hamas is counting on human shields and the effect of their deaths on international opinion as their best way to restrain, if not halt, Israeli military force. Hamas considers two million Gazan civilians, including children, as martyrs, whether they want to be or not.
“We are called a nation of martyrs,” said another top Hamas official, Ghazi Hamad. “And we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” He promised more attacks: “There will be a second, a third, a fourth.” When asked whether he sought the annihilation of Israel, Hamad matter-of-factly replied, “Yes, of course.”
This is not simply terrorism, which is the use of illegal violence to achieve political objectives. It is cold-blooded human sacrifice, and on a scale that evokes the ritual slaughters of ancient times. The Hill
Of course, not all Palestinians killed in this Hamas war want to die, but we do know that there have been minimal protests by Palestinians against Hamas, whether in Gaza, the West Bank, the United States or elsewhere. The refusal by Palestinians to condemn Hamas as it kills their friends and family acts as a show of support.
It seems clear that this war would end, or greatly diminish if Hamas released the hostages and stopped its rocket attacks. Yet Palestinians refuse to even call for Hamas to do this. Apparently, the continuation of these terrorist campaigns is more important to Palestinians than saving the lives of Palestinians in Gaza.
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