The chief of the American spy agency, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns has offered intel on Hamas military head Yahya Sinwar in exchange of Israel halting its ground invasion in the Rafah region.

Sinwar, who has been on Israel’s hit list ever since the war broke out on October 7 with Hamas, is reportedly hiding in the tunnel network of the terror outfit between Khan Younis and the Rafah region.

The United States has been pushing the Israeli leadership against a full-scale ground invasion in Rafah, given the huge population density in the area with around 1.3 million people including women and children staying there.

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    7 months ago

    Are we sure this tunnel theory isn’t merely projection by Israel?

    Ummm… nope. The existence of tunnel-networks under Gaza is pretty much mundane news - it’s the whole reason the Palestinian resistance (ie, the so-called “terror outfit” referred to in the rag quoted above) can survive the Israeli mass-slaughter campaign. It also allows the Palestinian resistance to conduct a very effective guerilla campaign against the IDF - essentially, the IDF has no answer to it.

    So yeah… it’s real. The whole idea that Hamas has Bond villain-esque HQs underneath Gaza hospitals were completely fabricated by Israeli propaganda as pretext for perpetrating enormous war crimes in them, though.