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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 4863093" data-attributes="member: 45230">[ATTACH=full]337646[/ATTACH]Mainstream media <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-invasion-that-wasnt-idf-suspected-of-misleading-press-to-trick-hamas/" target="_blank">eagerly picked up</a> the sensational report without bothering to verify it, including the Washington Post, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-disinformation.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> and AFP. During the day Thursday, IDF sources and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also raised the possibility of a ground assault on Gaza.On Thurday, the IDF deployed infantry, artillery, and tanks on the Gaza border, leading Hamas believed that Israel was about to begin a ground invasion. As a result, Hamas sent its fighters into its underground tunnel system beneath Gaza City, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306223" target="_blank">Israel National News reports:</a>“On Thursday night, the IDF brought in 160 aircraft and dropped 450 bombs containing over 80 tons of explosives, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306206" target="_blank">hitting 150 terror targets</a> in 35 minutes. Hamas’ underground city was hit with enormous force, and the IDF collapsed the terror tunnel system, on the heads of the terrorists hiding in the tunnels. During the attack, many kilometers of terror tunnels were destroyed. As of now, neither Israel nor Hamas is clear on the exact scope of the damage, but according to estimates, a large number of terrorists were buried in the sands beneath Gaza.”[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/israeli-army-trolls-terrorists-twitter-lures-deadly-trap-buries-hamas-tunnels/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 4863093, member: 45230"] [ATTACH type="full"]337646[/ATTACH] Mainstream media [URL='https://www.timesofisrael.com/with-invasion-that-wasnt-idf-suspected-of-misleading-press-to-trick-hamas/']eagerly picked up[/URL] the sensational report without bothering to verify it, including the Washington Post, [URL='https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/14/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-disinformation.html']New York Times[/URL] and AFP. During the day Thursday, IDF sources and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu also raised the possibility of a ground assault on Gaza. On Thurday, the IDF deployed infantry, artillery, and tanks on the Gaza border, leading Hamas believed that Israel was about to begin a ground invasion. As a result, Hamas sent its fighters into its underground tunnel system beneath Gaza City, [URL='https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306223']Israel National News reports:[/URL] “On Thursday night, the IDF brought in 160 aircraft and dropped 450 bombs containing over 80 tons of explosives, [URL='https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/306206'][B]hitting 150 terror targets[/B][/URL] in 35 minutes. Hamas’ underground city was hit with enormous force, and the IDF collapsed the terror tunnel system, on the heads of the terrorists hiding in the tunnels. During the attack, many kilometers of terror tunnels were destroyed. As of now, neither Israel nor Hamas is clear on the exact scope of the damage, but according to estimates, a large number of terrorists were buried in the sands beneath Gaza.” [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/05/israeli-army-trolls-terrorists-twitter-lures-deadly-trap-buries-hamas-tunnels/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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