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On 5/24/25 10:50, hello there wrote:
The huge effort taken by Hamas to have as many Gazans as possible killed[1], was well-planned, in order to serve their political purposes:
https://nypost.com/2025/05/20/world-news/hamas-faces-backlash-in-gaza-after-official-dismisses-war-dead-as-material-calculations/
Hamas faces backlash in Gaza after top official dismisses war death toll as 'price that must be
paid'
A fat cat senior Hamas official is facing backlash within Gaza after he claimed the growing
Palestinian death toll is nothing more than "material calculations" for the terror group.
In an interview that has now gone viral inside the enclave, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri, 58,
said the latest estimates of more than 53,000 dead in Gaza are not a concern for his group, the
Times of Israel reported.
"The martyrs [killed in the war] — the wombs of Gaza's women will give birth to twice as many," he
proclaimed. "This is the price that must be paid".
[...]
Abu Zuhri made the comments about the conditions in Gaza while living 1,100 miles away in Qatar.
The spokesman's comments echo those of slain Hamas chief and Oct. 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar, whose
leaked messages revealed that he thought of the civilian casualties in Gaza as "necessary
sacrifices."
[1] https://stratcomcoe.org/cuploads/pfiles/hamas_human_shields.pdf
Hamas' most common uses of human shields include ------------------------------------------------
* Firing rockets, artillery, and mortars from or in proximity to heavily populated civilian areas, often from or near facilities which should be protected according to the Geneva Convention (e.g. schools, hospitals,
or mosques).
* Locating military or security-related infrastructures such as HQs, bases, armouries, access routes, lathes or defensive positions within or in proximity
to civilian areas.
* Protecting terrorists' houses and military facilities, or rescuing terrorists
who were besieged or warned by the IDF.
* Combating the IDF from or in proximity to residential and commercial areas, including using civilians for intelligence gathering missions.
By engaging in these acts, Hamas employs a win-win scenario: if indeed the IDF
uses kinetic power, and the number of civilian causalities surges, Hamas can use that as a weapon in the lawfare it conducts. It would be able to accuse the IDF (and Israel) of committing war crimes, which in turn could result in the imposition of a wide array of sanctions. On the other hand, if the IDF limits
its use of military power in Gaza to avoid collateral damage, Hamas will be less
vulnerable to Israeli attacks, and thereby able to protect its assets while continuing to fight.
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