Hamas needs time to find their hostages? Either bullshit or incompetence, take your pick.
The Hamas rep elaborated previously that like 50+ hostages were held by other groups and in some cases just some people that did a kidnapping.
just some people that did a kidnapping.
You know, as one does.
Probably both, as if the Taliban returning home and immediately realizing terrorism and running a country are two different skill sets wasn't enough to demonstrate that these groups are only good for murder.
I mean, running a competent, centralized organization where the top clearly controls the lower levels and knows what's going on would seem somewhat dangerous if you're running an underground terrorist organization, because there's a very high chance the leadership of such an group will get targeted, and since they will have fewer resources than their opponent, theres a good chance that leadership will eventually end up captured or killed. If the rest of the organization relies on the top, or the top knows where and who the members all are, then this will probably destroy the organization. So, there's incentive for such an organization to be distributed and decentralized to some extent. Further, it won't be staffed by highly trained professionals, but by whoever can be sufficiently motivated to join it, which isn't going to lead to a high degree of competence, just zealotry.
Wasn't a ceasefire agreed upon when hamas committed the October incursion? I can see one was agreed in May of 2023 but can't find any mention as to whether it was retracted or expired. If it was still in affect I question how hamas expects Israel to agree to further ceasefire when hamas is more than happy to use it as cover for planning more attacks.
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