Times of Israel – Jan 24, 2024
Hamas leaders, hunkered down in subterranean bunkers in the Gaza Strip, are reportedly communicating with each other using handwritten notes carried around the war-torn territory by runners.
The memos are even enabling communication with senior officials abroad, the Saudi-owned Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat reported Tuesday.
The London-based outlet revealed aspects of the secret communications system used by the terror group’s chiefs to exchange messages without being detected by Israeli intelligence.
The war erupted when Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and abducting 253 as hostages.
Israel responded with a military campaign to destroy Hamas, remove it from power, and release the hostages.
Since October 7, Hamas political and military leaders inside Gaza have been sheltering inside the massive tunnel system that crisscrosses the coastal Strip’s underground. Little is known about how they liaise with each other from different parts of the enclave and make decisions, such as formulating positions in negotiations via mediators with Israel, and how they consult with top Hamas officials abroad.
Citing sources close to the Hamas leadership, Tuesday’s report said Hamas relied up until the outbreak of the war on a terrestrial communications network that was initially developed by engineers of its military wing in 2009 and was upgraded over the years with technology smuggled into Gaza from abroad. Switchboards were reportedly installed underground and connected to old landlines aboveground.
Each political and military leader had a personal contact point with a number, and networks were constantly monitored to prevent wiretapping. Maintenance was conducted every month, the sources added.
Israel was reportedly aware of the existence of the system and launched several attempts to hack it or disable it. One successful attempt was conducted in May 2018, when the IDF managed to blow up an exchange point in the central Gaza Strip and kill a group of Hamas engineers repairing a fault, the sources recounted.
The system was said to still be in place at the outbreak of the war. While some of the switchboards and tunnels in which cables ran were destroyed by Israeli forces in subsequent weeks, the sources said that the network could still enable intensive communications between Hamas leaders in November, as they deliberated a proposal for a seven-day truce with Israel and a partial release of hostages. The deal eventually went through and 105 hostages were released in exchange for three times as many Palestinian security prisoners held in Israel, and an increase in humanitarian aid to the Strip.
Some Hamas aides were reportedly tasked with looping in the group’s leadership abroad, particularly in Beirut and Doha, through the use of encryption software the terror organization had acquired from outside Gaza.
The sources added that the network was also employed to communicate with leaders of the allied Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, to which Hamas had previously provided dedicated contact points. The report speculated that the system was used to coordinate between the two terror groups to decide which hostages to release during the November truce, noting that in several instances members of the two groups appeared together aboveground as the abductees were handed over to the Red Cross.
The lull in fighting fell apart after a week, with Israel accusing Hamas of violating the terms. Since then, the IDF has advanced further inside Gaza, forcing Hamas leaders to resort to a more rudimentary method of communication – written messages on pieces of paper carried by Hamas members and collaborators from one location to another.
The same method is now being used to convey messages to those Gazans who liaise with the leadership abroad, the sources said. The latter, however, are not entitled to make decisions without the approval of the top leaders inside the Strip, in particular Yahya Sinwar.
In w w 1 small austrian corporal was seen many times a day running hand written messages between the trenches these men usually live a week if lucky
This man seen as a hero was Adolf Hitler the man who saved germany from the jewbankers
only to have it handed back to the jews by british traitors
# update # CNN – Wolf Blitzer
It is now been verified that Hamas is using tin cans and string to evade Israeli intelligence and communicate with each other They’ve created an elaborate network of these can phones throughout the hundreds of miles of tunnels recently reported, that were built right under the noses of the IDF. Even Osama Bin Laden who masterminded the 9/11 attacks from his cave in Tora Bora never thought to use this ingenious method of communication and had to resort to usage of satellite phones. IDF spokesman Moshe Goldstein told CNN — ” This is reminiscent of the 19 Arab hijackers low tech solution of boxcutters to outwit the high tech sophistication of NORAD on 9/11 ” Goldstein also stated — ” As much as we should righteously hate these ruthless Hamas terrorists, we have to admire their cleverness and respect them as worthy adversaries. ”
This photo obtained exclusively by CNN shows Hamas leader
demonstrating correct usage of tin can – string phones to other Hamas militants. https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/man-using-tin-can-phone-gm484261034-71570547?phrase=tin+can+phone&searchscope=image%2Cfilm
If i may again give some great advice to one of the actors in this war theatre.this time i would advise khamaas to employ pigeons as carriers of messages.if they do not have pigeons at hand,they could use chickens.they could steal this chickens from the nearest chabad settlement.they breed a lot of chickens for the kaparot ritual.they have to act quickly,before the jews read this comment and start evacuating these chickens through their tunnels to corona heights 770.this advice is free of charge.
That is we had to communicate on a civil defense exercise in Germany in the early 80s when field telephone lines were (deliberately) cut.
Yeah right, more absurd nonsense from these Jew ghouls–attempting to convince people that Oct 7 wasn’t an IDF/Mossad false flag/psyop.
I believe the media can dispense with referring to HAMAS as a terrorist organization and call them in the future a brigade of The Palestinian Defense Force.
I’ve always thought you could train ‘carrier rats’ for this purpose thus leaving soldiers to do what they do best…kill or be killed…and sometimes both if they manage to live long enough…
because of course the rat is a noble and intelligent little rodent who makes an excellent companion…apparently ‘the science’ has ascertained after dissecting millions of the poor buggers that they have the intelligence of a twelve year old girl…
Which as usual is absolute bollox.. because rats are obviously far more intelligent… they can feed themselves for a start… and run up walls to evade capture..
@chesterton.nevermind the bollocks.i attest to your contention regarding the nobility and intelligence of the genus rattus.this is the conclusion of a decades long comparative study of mice and men i have carried out.there is no shortage of subject matter in this over crowded refugee kamp where ape and rat compete for space and sustenance.my conclusion is that genus rattus enjoy a far more prosperous and peaceful existence than the bipedal ape . With regards to their intelligence,i have seen rats drive automobiles in a very safe manner.i thought out a great idea.an autonomous ape carrying car, equipped with a rat instead of a silicon cpu.it would out perform a tesla or any other electric toy-toya.