It's nice to see that the @nytimes can bring itself to lay out so clearly the horrifying foundations of Hamas's strategy: A vast tunnel network purpose-built to produce this exact war, and then an attack on October 7 designed to ensure the war could not be avoided. "Israeli officials spent years searching for and dismantling tunnels that Hamas could use to sneak into Israel to launch an attack. But assessing the underground network inside Gaza was not a priority, a senior Israeli official said, because an invasion and full-scale war there seemed unlikely. "All the while, officials now realize, Hamas was girding for just such a confrontation." -- ‘Moving in the Dark’: Hamas Documents Show Tunnel Battle Strategy https://t.co/ktpw1cynfT
See Tweet