The Israel Defense Forces are set to launch a ground invasion of Gaza. Hamas has a clear strategy: Sacrifice as many Palestinians in Gaza as possible. And the terrorist group will be counting on the media to help.
The Oct. 7 massacre of more than 1,400 Israeli civilians by Hamas and other Iranian proxies has presented Jerusalem with an undeniable imperative. For 16 years, the Jewish state has counted on limited wars and strikes to reduce Hamas’ capabilities.
Hamas’ cruelty extends to its own people. The terrorist group has a long track record of using human shields, storing weapons, and launching rockets from schools, mosques and hospitals. Indeed, when one reporter for France 24 dared to report that the terrorist group was launching missiles from a site next to a kindergarten, Hamas seized him from his hotel and held him in the basement of the hospital.As Douglas Feith, a former U.S. undersecretary of defense, recently observed, Hamas has embarked upon a strategy of “human sacrifice.” In war, Mr. Feith notes, it is “unprecedented for a party to adopt a strategy to maximize civilian deaths on its own sides.
“This is to generate international pressure on Israel to end its retaliation,” Mr. Feith says, and to “strengthen Israel’s enemies in their depiction of the Jewish state as a villain.” It is, he points out, “innovative in the worst way.”
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