Hamas uses holy places in Gaza as terrorist facilities
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Hamas uses holy places in Gaza as terrorist facilities
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Operation Protective Edge
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Hamas uses Gaza mosques as terrorist facilities
8/1/2014
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Hamas uses mosques as command centers and to store weapons and hide infiltration tunnels.
Hamas uses mosques as terrorist facilities
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Throughout
Operation Protective Edge
, IDF forces have discovered Hamas terrorists using mosques as terrorist facilities. Hamas exploits the IDF's sensitivity towards protecting civilian structures, particularly holy sites, by hiding command centers, weapons caches and tunnel entrances in mosques.
On July 29, IDF special forces engaged and eliminated an armed terror cell guarding a mosque being used as a Hamas military compound. When searching the basement of the mosque after the battle, the soldiers uncovered a stockpile of weapons including sniper rifles, RPGs and machine guns. They also found two concealed tunnel entrances, one of which ran 14 meters deep underground.
The following day, a joint IDF task force tracked down the entrance to a tunnel that had been used by Hamas terrorists to attack Israeli soldiers. The tunnel entrance was in the basement of a mosque. There, the IDF soldiers found the opening to another tunnel serving as a Hamas terrorist bunker.
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