Legal Insurrection "The Jerusalem Post reported the brilliant Israeli ruse that will live in the annals of military and counter-terrorism history:
At about 9 pm on Thursday night, the IDF began assembling ground forces along the border with the Gaza Strip. Some armored and infantry battalions joined the artillery batteries that had been deployed days earlier to pound Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets.
Earlier in the day, the IDF said that a ground offensive was on the table as a viable option for the continuation of Operation Guardians of the Wall. The IDF was hitting hard at Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets from the air but on the ground they would be expected to cause even more damage albeit with greater risk to the Israeli forces.
"We're invading Gaza!" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his contribution, saying Thursday that the campaign against Hamas was far from over and that more Israeli action was coming.
At midnight, the IDF Spokesperson’s English department tweeted that “IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.” The foreign media jumped at the tweet, interpreting it to mean that Israel was sending ground forces into Gaza, a major escalation in the current operation and a sign that it was far from over.
Websites of media outlets around the world, including the Washington Post and ABC, reported the incursion. “Israeli troops have entered the Gaza Strip as conflict with Palestinians escalates, Israeli military says,” was the tweet put out by the Washington Post.
The problem was that there was no ground invasion. Yes, the IDF had deployed troops along the border but they did not cross into Gaza. What did happen was in the air where 160 aircraft had assembled for a massive bombing run over the Gaza Strip. Their target was what the IDF called Hamas’s “Metro”, an underground network of tunnels where Hamas stored its weapons and used to move throughout Gaza hidden from Israeli aircraft." . . . Full article here...
Genius ruse by IDF: put out a vaguely worded tweet hinting a ground invasion had begun, which made Hamas fighters scramble to their tunnels, then it blew the tunnels to smithereens. https://t.co/ldyK93arNp
— Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) May 14, 2021
Mark Dubowitz: This needs to be read in its entirety from @RepRitchie. Well said
NicolasLeFloch in reply to Paddy M. | May 14, 2021 at 9:32 am
Yes! Israel will prevail because she has Bibi, the IDF, and the spirit and willingness to fight.
And thank you, Ted Cruz, for your unwavering support of Israel. Wipe the floor with Ilhan Omar.
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