CIA chief offers information about Yahya Sinwar to Israel for halting Rafah operation - The Statesman

The chief of the American spy agency, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns has offered intel on Hamas military head Yahya Sinwar in exchange of Israel halting its ground invasion in the Rafah region.

Sinwar, who has been on Israel’s hit list ever since the war broke out on October 7 with Hamas, is reportedly hiding in the tunnel network of the terror outfit between Khan Younis and the Rafah region.

The United States has been pushing the Israeli leadership against a full-scale ground invasion in Rafah, given the huge population density in the area with around 1.3 million people including women and children staying there.

geneva_convenience,

Someone explain me the logic of offering 2000 pound bombs first and 6 months later telling Israel the guy they’re trying to carpet bomb isn’t there

ikidd,
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You can’t sell bombs if you take away the reason to bomb things.

timewarp,
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Can someone explain to me how these tunnels work? I keep hearing about them but then on television they claim to show tunnels and we see like a basement here and there. I do recall Jews digging tunnels under New York City though. Are we sure this tunnel theory isn’t merely projection by Israel?

Drusas,

The CIA is also saying there are tunnels.

girlfreddy,
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Which I will believe when they show us the video walking the length of the tunnel.

BaroqueInMind, (edited )

There’s videos of it already posted to CNN, BBC, and ironically Al-Jazeera.

Here is a YouTube documentary about them.

You are a fucking pro-terror pro-Hamas shill. You could easily search for them, but you didn’t.

Palestine deserves to be free and it’s own country, but dipshits like you who want Hamas to continue hiding behind innocent people while they kill Israelis in the name of Islam is holding it all back.

LotrOrc,

The idea that Hamas is hiding behind innocent people has been completely disproven by the fact that Israel just keeps bombing people with impunity.

On top of that, it’s a bit wild to talk about how evil Hamas is when Netenyahu and his government quite literally, without hiding it, spoke about how they fund Hamas because they know it makes a Palestinian state harder to come to. Hamas would not be half the issue it is if it wasn’t for the Israeli government.

Also, when you live in a place that’s about two miles wide and 26 miles long, you are guaranteed to be among the civilian population. The reason they are there is because of Israel in the first place.

On top of that, resisting an armed occupation with violence is not a crime.

If you are facing constant apartheid, it is natural to hate the instigator of the apartheid. That happened in South Africa, it happened in India, it’s happened all over the world.

Finally, Israel keeps stating there are thousands of miles of tunnels under Gaza, with very little evidence of that. There is evidence that THEY built the tunnels and rooms under the hospitals. New York City is almost twice the size of Gaza. The New York subway does not have the miles of tunnels that Israel says exist in Gaza. It doesn’t make any physical sense that they would have that many tunnels

I’m not defending October 7th at all, but let’s not act like this all began with Palestinians and not Europe just kicking a bunch of Arabs out of their homes because of something EUROPEANS did in the first place.

BaroqueInMind, (edited )

You have convinced me that you are correct and I was wrong to say what I said. You do not need to provide any sources of information to help change my view, at all, because your amazing comment that was full of thoughts and interesting unique opinions was enough to sway me. Thank you.

Neon,

I do recall Jews digging tunnels under New York City though. Are we sure this tunnel theory isn’t merely projection by Israel?

someone please explain to me how this is not antisemitic

Esqplorer,

There was a story a few months back about Hasidic Jews tunneling under some dude’s basement apartment.

en.wikipedia.org/…/New_York_City_synagogue_tunnel…

Omniraptor, (edited )

bringing it up here is completely irrelevant lol. There’s a difference between a property dispute in New York and defending against mass airstrikes in Gaza

Esqplorer,

Well yeah obviously. I thought it was just a joke referencing this story and someone was out of the loop. I got down voted for explaining the context that was missing 🤷‍♂️

masquenox,

Are we sure this tunnel theory isn’t merely projection by Israel?

Ummm… nope. The existence of tunnel-networks under Gaza is pretty much mundane news - it’s the whole reason the Palestinian resistance (ie, the so-called “terror outfit” referred to in the rag quoted above) can survive the Israeli mass-slaughter campaign. It also allows the Palestinian resistance to conduct a very effective guerilla campaign against the IDF - essentially, the IDF has no answer to it.

So yeah… it’s real. The whole idea that Hamas has Bond villain-esque HQs underneath Gaza hospitals were completely fabricated by Israeli propaganda as pretext for perpetrating enormous war crimes in them, though.

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