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#PREVIEW: #GAZA: #HAMAS: #RAFAH: From a long conversation with FDD Jonathan Schanzer re the IDF operations in Gaza, pointing to the capture of a major Hamas command center beneath Khan Younis -- and pointing to the challenge ahead of the unknown tunnels

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🗓️ 5 February 2024

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#PREVIEW: #GAZA: #HAMAS: #RAFAH: From a long conversation with FDD Jonathan Schanzer re the IDF operations in Gaza, pointing to the capture of a major Hamas command center beneath Khan Younis -- and pointing to the challenge ahead of the unknown tunnels beneath Rafah Crossing, some likely connecting to Sinai. More of this later.

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0:00.0

This is John Batcher from a conversation with Jonathan Shanser of FTD about Hamas, about the

0:06.0

Gaza Strip.

0:08.2

Con Eunice is in the center south of the Gaza Strip.

0:11.5

That is where the opinion of the IDF, the leadership of Hamas is hiding

0:17.2

in the cells, in the tunnels, in the rooms beneath the ground.

0:23.4

There has been success there these last days.

0:26.0

However, Jonathan is very clear, though there will be infiltration in the north,

0:31.1

that there will be continued fighting in the center. The big battle is

0:35.5

going to come in the south, the Rafa crossing. Questions to be asked of Egypt,

0:40.6

did you permit Hamas to dig tunnels into Sinai, allowing them to smuggle to get

0:49.8

money and arms back and forth, allowing them to escape in these last weeks of fighting in

0:56.0

Gaza Strip. Are you participating in the defense of Hamas in some fashion by

1:02.4

hiding these things.

1:03.5

Jonathan asks these questions.

1:04.8

They're very hard questions.

1:06.6

I don't have the answer.

1:08.3

Jonathan doesn't have the answer, but there will be revelations in these next days as the IDF turns from Khan Yunus to

1:16.8

Raf in the south. Here's Jonathan to explain the success and the road ahead in the Gaza Strip?

1:24.0

Yes, I mean, the answer to that question is yes, that the Israelis in Han Yunus, and this is

1:29.4

Central Southern Gaza, they were actually over the weekend broadcasting photos and video of

1:36.4

the capture of a major command center probably larger than the one that they took

1:42.0

in Gaza City at the beginning of the war.

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