Your Edit triggered a memory: Adventures of Tin Tin. In one story, it featured an eclipse in South America and a sacrifice needed to be prevented, if I recall correctly.
Edit: My memory is fine. Prisoners of the Sun.
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Yawn....... Israel attacked by Hamas
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Your Edit triggered a memory: Adventures of Tin Tin. In one story, it featured an eclipse in South America and a sacrifice needed to be prevented, if I recall correctly.
Edit: My memory is fine. Prisoners of the Sun.
There are plenty of more photos and videos of the Hamas atrocities. Maybe you should do a simple internet search and stop living in your own personal fantasy world which is devoid of reality.
Hamas does not represent the feelings or beliefs of all Palestinian people. Most of these people are trapped and will comply with whoever has the gun at their head. I know this for a fact having seen Vietnamese civilians comply with NVA one day and us the next. They just want to live. What the Hamas terrorists did was a crime against humanity. Mass punishment against all of Gaza residents is also a crime against humanity. Isreal has every right to push the terrorists back. They have every right to send in special ops to try and rescue prisoners as well as take out Hamas terrorists. They do not have the right to starve and obliterate an entire population of civilians. This cannot be written off as collateral damage and will only add fuel to this already raging inferno of hate. Pray or ask whatever power you believe in for some sanity and cooler heads to prevail. Not being naive I don't expect this to happen, but as an individual I will hope what passes for leadership in this world will slow their roll for a moment and think about what place this world will be in if this madness continues.
Despite propagandists claiming Hamas was armed with western weapons -- an evaluation of the videos and photos of Hamas terrorists in their recent incursion shows differently.
Homemade rockets and modified AK-47s: An annotated look at Hamas’ deadly arsenal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/middleeast/hamas-weapons-invs/index.html
Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend.
CNN analyzed dozens of photos and videos of Hamas militants during the surprise assault to identify the weapons used to kill at least 1,200 people in Israel. Many of the weapons appeared to be altered Russian or Chinese firearms, presumedly left behind on the battlefield in decades past that eventually made their way into the hands of Hamas terrorists, experts say.
One expert described how the intricately planned assault, in which Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel by land, sea and air, reflects a change in Hamas’ overall military strategy. Others believe certain firearms were likely supplied from Iran, which the US State Department has said bolsters the terrorist group with money, military equipment and training.
The group operates out of Gaza, a strip of Mediterranean coastal land bordered by Israel and Egypt, which has been cut off from the rest of the world since 2007 when Hamas seized control of the territory, prompting Israel and Egypt to impose a blockade on it.
It’s fertile ground for a condemned terror group to scavenge and transform weapons for guerrilla warfare.
While the weapons are far less sophisticated than Israel’s standards – that country’s military has access to some of the best equipment the US can provide – their impact made for an unprecedented level of devastation.
“Those are weapons of mass destruction in my eyes,” said Ret. US Army Major Mike Lyons, referring to portable surface-to-air missiles that can be seen in at least one video reviewed by CNN.
But Hamas’ fighters don’t need sophisticated equipment to be deadly, Lyons said. “They just need to create terror.”
(Much more at above url)
Homemade rockets and modified AK-47s: An annotated look at Hamas’ deadly arsenal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/13/middleeast/hamas-weapons-invs/index.html
Homemade rockets. Modified AK-47s. Decades-old Soviet machine guns. Cheap, second-hand, and purloined weapons comprised Hamas’ deadly makeshift arsenal that fueled a devastating, multi-pronged attack on Israel over the weekend.
CNN analyzed dozens of photos and videos of Hamas militants during the surprise assault to identify the weapons used to kill at least 1,200 people in Israel. Many of the weapons appeared to be altered Russian or Chinese firearms, presumedly left behind on the battlefield in decades past that eventually made their way into the hands of Hamas terrorists, experts say.
One expert described how the intricately planned assault, in which Hamas terrorists infiltrated Israel by land, sea and air, reflects a change in Hamas’ overall military strategy. Others believe certain firearms were likely supplied from Iran, which the US State Department has said bolsters the terrorist group with money, military equipment and training.
The group operates out of Gaza, a strip of Mediterranean coastal land bordered by Israel and Egypt, which has been cut off from the rest of the world since 2007 when Hamas seized control of the territory, prompting Israel and Egypt to impose a blockade on it.
It’s fertile ground for a condemned terror group to scavenge and transform weapons for guerrilla warfare.
While the weapons are far less sophisticated than Israel’s standards – that country’s military has access to some of the best equipment the US can provide – their impact made for an unprecedented level of devastation.
“Those are weapons of mass destruction in my eyes,” said Ret. US Army Major Mike Lyons, referring to portable surface-to-air missiles that can be seen in at least one video reviewed by CNN.
But Hamas’ fighters don’t need sophisticated equipment to be deadly, Lyons said. “They just need to create terror.”
(Much more at above url)
Hamas has dug an extensive network of tunnels under Gaza for their fighters to use. These will impose a significant problem for the Israeli military.
"Following a conflict in 2021, the IDF said it had destroyed more than 100km of tunnels in air strikes. Hamas meanwhile claimed that its tunnels stretched 500km and that only 5% were hit. To put those figures into perspective, the London Underground is 400km long and is mostly above ground."
Israel targets Hamas’s labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67097124
‘We know they’re waiting for us’: Gaza’s tunnels pose deadly challenge for Israeli troops
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/israel-hamas-war-gaza-tunnels-pose-deadly-challenge.html
"Following a conflict in 2021, the IDF said it had destroyed more than 100km of tunnels in air strikes. Hamas meanwhile claimed that its tunnels stretched 500km and that only 5% were hit. To put those figures into perspective, the London Underground is 400km long and is mostly above ground."
Israel targets Hamas’s labyrinth of tunnels under Gaza
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67097124
‘We know they’re waiting for us’: Gaza’s tunnels pose deadly challenge for Israeli troops
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/12/israel-hamas-war-gaza-tunnels-pose-deadly-challenge.html
Israel tells 1.1 million residents of Gaza they have 24 hours to evacuate south. Hamas demands that these residents stay in place because they want to use them as human shields.
Hamas tells Gaza residents not to respond to Israel’s evacuation order
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/index.html
The spokesperson of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, urged Palestinians to “remain steadfast” and not respond to Israeli calls to leave their homes in an audio message aired on al-Aqsa TV on Friday.
“Israel is removing Palestinians from their homes and lands for a second time, and we have responded to the Zionist crimes by targeting them and Ben Gurion,” he said. “The only direction we are migrating is back to our rightful lands.”
“Displacement and exile are not for us, Israel is carrying out psychological warfare through the threats and their dark history, which shows they carry out crimes and killings as a form of collective punishment,” he added.
Obaida urged Palestinians to “be patient and steadfast, victory will be ours.”
Israel has called on all civilians in northern Gaza to leave their homes and head south today ahead of a potential ground invasion in response to Hamas’ terror attacks that killed more than 1,300 people.
The UN, however, said an order for the mass evacuation was “impossible” without major humanitarian consequences.
“Since this morning, we have directed 150 missiles at Ashkelon and 50 missiles at Sderot, we bombed Ben Gurion Airport, and we still have many more in the coming hours,” Obaida added.
A CNN team in Sderot counted a maximum of 10 incoming missiles from Gaza – Hamas claims 50.
Hamas tells Gaza residents not to respond to Israel’s evacuation order
https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-news-hamas-war-10-13-23/index.html
The spokesperson of Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obaida, urged Palestinians to “remain steadfast” and not respond to Israeli calls to leave their homes in an audio message aired on al-Aqsa TV on Friday.
“Israel is removing Palestinians from their homes and lands for a second time, and we have responded to the Zionist crimes by targeting them and Ben Gurion,” he said. “The only direction we are migrating is back to our rightful lands.”
“Displacement and exile are not for us, Israel is carrying out psychological warfare through the threats and their dark history, which shows they carry out crimes and killings as a form of collective punishment,” he added.
Obaida urged Palestinians to “be patient and steadfast, victory will be ours.”
Israel has called on all civilians in northern Gaza to leave their homes and head south today ahead of a potential ground invasion in response to Hamas’ terror attacks that killed more than 1,300 people.
The UN, however, said an order for the mass evacuation was “impossible” without major humanitarian consequences.
“Since this morning, we have directed 150 missiles at Ashkelon and 50 missiles at Sderot, we bombed Ben Gurion Airport, and we still have many more in the coming hours,” Obaida added.
A CNN team in Sderot counted a maximum of 10 incoming missiles from Gaza – Hamas claims 50.
