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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStill NO "Command Center" At Al-Shifa Hospital
Matt Gutman of ABC News showed video during 'World News Tonight' and 'GMA' of the tunnel that was more than 150 yards on one side of a hatch and far more than 150 yards on the other side, which is FAR longer than the breadth of the Al-Shifa hospital. So the tunnel is not so much "under" the hospital, as it happens to transit beneath the hospital on it's way in both directions.
NO "Command Center" found under Al-Shifa hospital.
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That was before they traversed the tunnel and found nothing.
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Turbineguy
(40,068 posts)In seven weeks time?
lamp_shade
(15,480 posts)An entire military "command and control center"?
NAH.
sarisataka
(22,694 posts)In your opinion?
T_A
(604 posts)above ground, with trucks, and a large team, months.
Underground, with no trucks, and without a large team, much much longer.
This isn't a NORAD type of command and control, it was probably a small staff with some radios to command and control the front line terrorists.
I guess even with all the evidence, some still can't bring themselves to admit that Hamas is an evil entity who used civilian, including hospitals, facilities for military ops.
ExciteBike66
(2,700 posts)"Command Center" is a bit of Hollywood it seems...
Sal_NV
(606 posts)its still a command and control center and taking it out disrupts the enemy's operations and hinders their ability to coordinate attacks.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)antennas, they were the commanders' tanks coordinating the attack.
Every NATO/Western military is taught that.
Lithos
(26,638 posts)Read Team of Teams by General McChrystal.
From the review.
Do not get hung up on old style language of a Command Center. There is no head to kill. Hamas has long ago adopted a set of tactics which operate at a lower unit level and only loosely connected. Units come and go as needed.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)Sal_NV
(606 posts)but some here don't seem to grasp that command and control centers aren't big rooms with video screens, mainframe computers, lots of personnel, and so on, all one needs to become a "command and control center" nowadays is a laptop and a radio.
Lithos
(26,638 posts)Everyone thinks these days that a command center is the stereotypical "NORAD" bunker often depicted by Hollywood. Frustrating.
I also would argue that Hamas knowing their COMINT defense is weak would likely use runners instead of radio.
NoRethugFriends
(3,750 posts)Sal_NV
(606 posts)sarisataka
(22,694 posts)We are not talking moving the Pentagon.
It would take several hours to move at a relaxed pace. An hour or less if they needed to bug out
Sal_NV
(606 posts)it can be huge like NORAD or it can be small, like a Bradley track, but the bottom line is that a command and control center is just that, no matter how big or small.
sarisataka
(22,694 posts)A command center needs to be a high tech installation with mainframe computers and multiple video displays
A couple radios, field telephones, some wall space for maps and a table or two is more than sufficient to run an operation involving hundreds.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)It seems a bit of a letdown after the "intelligence-based" 3D animated video put out by the IDF showing tunnels connecting elaborate multi-story war rooms. Turned out it was one tiny room with a toilet and a kitchen sink.
Interesting too you refer to "hundreds". All of this to kill a few hundred Hamas fighters?
Sal_NV
(606 posts)7 weeks to do so.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)In houses, in mosque basements, near Indonesian Hospital. I can't find the pic of Ibrahim Biari's compound. (Oh the govt of Israel is constantly deleting tweets with pictures of these centers)
Here is a rocket launcher near a playground.
I don't trust either side in this fiasco.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)madville
(7,847 posts)When we deployed to the field we could have our command and communications center setup and running within hours, SATCOM, LOS, encrypted network, TVs, generators, tent, etc. Everything fit in cases which all packed in a shipping container, and could fit in a C-130. Could break it down even faster.
A satellite phone and a few guys could be a command and control center if they are issuing operational orders.
David__77
(24,727 posts) Khan Yunis, which is in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, is the real headquarters of Hamas, Olmert said. There they have the leadership, they are hiding, they have the bunkers, they have the command positions, they have the launching pads.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-773923
It sounds like maybe people should be moving back north.
Look over there!
NoRethugFriends
(3,750 posts)Mosby
(19,491 posts)WTH?
lapucelle
(21,061 posts)
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or this

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instead of this
Link to tweet
are NOT a "command and control center".
the level of lies the IDF will stoop to.
They get caught lying over and over again, and they lie again with a straight face, and expect the world to believe them.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)no matter what the IDF finds, you'll find some reason to excuse Hamas and condemn Israel.
You've been very transparent here.
revmclaren
(2,613 posts)AloeVera
(4,263 posts)Back to their bombed out homes.
Or they could just move to the Sinai desert for now. Open-air tent living is surely a step up fom an open-air prison.
I'm sure they'll be let back in later.
Oh wait...
malaise
(296,085 posts)and it will shock some folks
Marcus IM
(3,001 posts)Confirmation biased denial is strong.
Try to defend Cuba(ns) with actual experience and knowledge ... it won't budge many.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)MorbidButterflyTat
(4,507 posts)And I'm really getting tired of the "they started it!!" nonsense.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)Arazi
(8,887 posts)It looks like theres a main intersection between two long tunnels that meet right under the hospital.
Intelligence during a war is typically difficult to be 100% accurate. Does it matter if it was a central hub or a command center? This feels semantical.
Nothing should have been under the hospital is the obvious answer but there was. Hamas deliberately set up a hub right there. Why are we quibbling over the size and quantity of the terrorist shit under the hospital?
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malaise
(296,085 posts)Arazi
(8,887 posts)Civilian objects and protected places (like hospitals) lose their protection if employed for military purposes, such as hosting a military headquarters, or being used as a firing position. (Rule 10. Civilian Objects Loss of Protection from Attack) and using a hospital (presumably, marked with Red Cross/Crescent/etc to distinguish it) as such is a breach of Rule 59
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Hekate
(100,133 posts)surely noticed.
Cha
(319,067 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)Cha
(319,067 posts)And another one bites the dust
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Sorry that I didnt memorialize their name in my post so I could tell who the dearly departed was.
Sad.
Cha
(319,067 posts)I can PM?
Hekate
(100,133 posts)revmclaren
(2,613 posts)Some truly dont know what battles to choose.
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Oh yeah
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)" Yes but hospitals are legit targets if they're being used for combat"
Which this one obviously wasn't, it being a small empty room and 2 long narrow hallways.
Arazi
(8,887 posts)Its been demonstrably proven it was some sort of Hamas center - whether a transit hub or command feels semantical.
Hamas was using the area under the hospital (and inside in various exam rooms like the MRI room) for combat operations.
The hospital is definitely not protected anymore under any rules of engagement.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...to not have anything to do with hamas.
That puts any other "evidence" in question.
Look, hamas is not acceptable and needs to be ended forever. But that does not need to be justified, and that does not allow for any other unacceptable actions, taken by anybody.
All this "Israel can do no wrong!" stuff is not right.
netanyahu is a far right sleazebag and needs to be called out for the extreme, and unneccesary harm and death is causing to non-hamas civilians.
Bash me for that if you wish, but maybe take a moment to consider that these non-hamas Palestinians are literally innocent civilians just like you and me.
NickB79
(20,354 posts)That evidence is "in question" to you?
Please, enlighten us on how you think they came to be there, if not for Hamas?
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)I think the tunnel and room are an abandoned "safe" medical facility of the hospital, and various videos and journalist reports show that the weapons were moved around and staged by IDF. Why?
As I said, there's no need for Israel to justify completely taking out hamas, so that raises the question of why they keep going out of their way to do all these media stunts, and tours of tunnels, and explanations of petty details like fake hamas calanders and "guns under kid's beds!" and all the other stuff.
I have my own suspicions of why all this nonsense is being presented to the world's press, but I won't share it here to avoid the backlash of close-minded harassment I'd get.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)Found "near" Al Shifa. It could be blocks away. They were found in buildings near Al Shifa. This kind of stuff is important to get right imo.
Arazi
(8,887 posts)Please point me to that. TIA
I can see however that no amount of evidence that Hamas was indeed operating in and under the hospital will suffice for you.
Feel free to have the last word. Im out
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...no evidence so far presented has convinced me that the hospital and innocent civilians and patients needed to be so broadly attacked by IDF.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)center below that hospital.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)Sal_NV
(606 posts)you just refuse to acknowledge it.
My post stands.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)Sal_NV
(606 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...working hard to convince others, yes, and a lot of people are still unconvinced, myself included.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)Sal_NV
(606 posts)Do you have any military experience at all?
Do you really have a grasp on what command and control is?
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...one hamas member but took out over 10,000 non-hamas innocent civilians instead, and you're implying that I have no military competence?
Sal_NV
(606 posts)I said that one person with a radio can be a command and control center.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...this is becoming embarassing for you.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)The only embarrassing thing here is that you have no concept of what command and control is.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...widely considered as embarrassing.
Sal_NV
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Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)10k people dies at that hospital?
Last I checked it was still standing and operating. I think the idea that it was "bombed" is wildly exaggerated considering Israeli munitions could easily flatten it.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)Buildings in good shape and the IDF certainly isn't bombing a position that it holds.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)So, it was confusing.
You can see the video here
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ry62sc6nt
A photo supposedly showed patients at Shifa today, but they looked more like they were just laying around as opposed to being a unit. I assume they weren't in the blast area. Who knows.
Mountainguy
(2,145 posts)Looked like an explosion that originated below ground.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)sarisataka
(22,694 posts)Although is was two of us with a single PRC-77. We provided C3 for an entire regiment for four hours due to a weird communications quirk
Sal_NV
(606 posts)Something like this,
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...which in my opinion, has not been presented.
It would have helped if IDF had not presented staged evidence which, in my opinion, decreased their credibility.
AZSkiffyGeek
(12,744 posts)But not in Arabic, cause then you'd just have the translation questioned.
And not in Hebrew, cause then it's obvious the IDF did it.
And not in any Western language, because then the IDF did it to garner international sympathy.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)Hekate
(100,133 posts)NH Ethylene
(31,343 posts)So we simply have no idea what the actual truth is.
According to 'Human Rights Watch', reversing the 'protective status' is a very high bar which has NOT been met.
Arazi
(8,887 posts)They are consistently bashing Israel and ignore far worse atrocities by other bad actors.
Any military action against a hospital is always fraught but it is legal to act when its clear military combatants are using it for combat
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Allee allee oxen, free free free! Cantt touch me!
Hekate
(100,133 posts)Just asking.
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Hekate
(100,133 posts)
on October 7 was just another day at a dance festival.
On October 6 there was an existing truce between the two sides. On October 7 Hamas decided it was time for that nonsense to be over.
Cool, according to American apologists.
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Butterflylady
(4,584 posts)Arazi
(8,887 posts)Your comment makes no sense
The IDF stated "command and control center".
Let's stick with the facts.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)There's a good chance that the underground room we are being shown as "proof" were built by Israel some 40 years ago. If that is the case, then it was Israel who made the determination that underground infrastructure under a hospital was acceptable.
In case you doubt the veracity of this, it was confirmed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak a scant few days ago on CNN. A fact check by Newsweek found it to be true.
Seems a bit sketchy to me to show rooms/tunnels you knew were there because you built them, and that are completely empty, in support of a claim that Hamas built this infrastructure and was actively using it as a command centre.
It's also a far cry from the 3D "intelligence-based" animated video released by the IDF showing multi-story tunnels leading to an elaborate, multi-story command centre. It's one room with a washroom and a kitchen sink.
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-israel-build-bunker-under-shifa-hospital-1844107
Kennah
(14,578 posts)Arguing it's a command center, it's a center, it's a headquarters, it's whatever is silly at best.
Was Hamas there? It appears so.
pwb
(12,660 posts)And are stored.
Kennah
(14,578 posts)pwb
(12,660 posts)In war the rules fall apart. It is very hectic and hurried.
Kennah
(14,578 posts)AloeVera
(4,263 posts)Hamas is wildly inconsistent.
They scatter weapons and gear throughout the hospital and forget them there.
But they immaculately clean up the command centre, not leaving one candy wrapper or unwashed dish in the sink let alone a lone weapon.
revmclaren
(2,613 posts)Stored on top of cabinets along with medical supplies?
Have you watched the walkthrough videos? I have.
Butterflylady
(4,584 posts)They would leave stuff behind to prove they were there.
Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)Kennah
(14,578 posts)The US left a LOT of functioning military hardware behind in Afghanistan
This happens in war
RockRaven
(19,365 posts)People who want to justify the death and destruction will do so no matter what the evidence shows about any command center, or whatever the next excuse is.
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...that statement can apply to both sides of this debate.
RockRaven
(19,365 posts)are so quickly shifted, that IMO the only thing to do is judge actions based upon their direct results. Any talk about goals or reasons is just quicksand, it will be shifting as soon as you try to build anything on it or probing it.
And yeah, that isn't a characteristic of only one entity here.
NickB79
(20,354 posts)Strange how you failed to mention that.
A young woman and a grandmother fighting cancer. With signs of bodily mutilation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-says-second-hostage-noa-marciano-found-dead-near-gazas-al-shifa-hospital/
Getting my popcorn ready for your attempt to spin that away.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)You state that the hostages were found at the hospital. No. They were found "near" the hospital as clearly stated in various articles.
They could have been found many blocks from the hospital and it would be described by the IDF as "near".
That's how propaganda works. People then run with it and say it was at the hospital.
Here's a little nugget to ponder: we know that the IDF was launching aerial attacks, shelling etc on the vicinity of the hospital. If the hostages were found near the hospital, is it not within the realm of possibility that these two hostages were in fact killed and "mutilated" by the Israeli attacks?
Take the case of the 19-year old soldier. The IDF claims that she suffered non-life threatening injuries from the Israeli air strike on the building where she was held captive near the hospital. Her captor was killed. Then she was taken by other terrorists to the hospital, where she was killed - according to the IDF. Then the terrorists removed her body from the hospital and left it in a building near the hospital.
Does that story make any kind of logical sense when you think about it - why would they take her to the hospital, if the intent was simply to kill her? The simpler and more logical explanation is that she was killed by the Israeli airstrike and it is being covered up.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)I saw her video.
She had her achilles tendon sliced off (foot was more or less amputated). A clean slice with raw bone exposed and what appears to be a gunshot wound to the back of her head.
I did not see blunt force trauma etc. She was also clean (no bomb debri) and she was wearing a black sweater and black sweat pants. She also had no visible bruises and no other injuries.
She died from a gunshot wound.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)I'm so sorry. I had no idea there was such evidence. Just awful.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)I read that it may have been sliced to prevent her from walking.
It appears a freshly amputated foot is placed next to the lowest part of her leg.
She has a small gunshot wound to the back of her head.
Hamas sent out the photo and claimed it was an airstrike. The photo has been removed throughout much the internet, but Hamas uses telegram, which is uncensored, so copies leak out here and there.
Sal_NV
(606 posts)but nothing like some of the pics I've seen of the brutality that Hamas committed on 10/7 and beyond.
T_A
(604 posts)a Non Sequitur?
Mr.Bill
(24,906 posts)and you can apply this to either side. If you are fighting a war and obeying all the rules while your opponent is not, you are going to have a hard time winning.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,822 posts)RainWalker
(605 posts)Sad to see stuff from this far right grifter posted on here.
He's also incredibly anti-Democrat and anti-Biden as most anti-science right wing weirdos are.



MorbidButterflyTat
(4,507 posts)Thanks for pointing this out. It really puts things into perspective, for me. Enlightening.
Nothing binds like hate, I guess. SMDH.
RainWalker
(605 posts)And given that Netanyahu is far right, it makes sense
T_A
(604 posts)are NOT a "command and control center".
BannonsLiver
(20,589 posts)underpants
(196,490 posts)not personnel entering the site.
In order to hit the military site the hospital will be damaged
Oneironaut
(6,299 posts)Hamas is bad enough, and, it wouldnt be out of character for them to put a command center with grenades and shit in a kindergarten, even.
Not sure if the command center under the hospital ever existed, but, if it was made up, why? It seems pointless to stick to a lie when there are probably many other examples of Hamas treating Palestinians like pieces of dirt.
AloeVera
(4,263 posts)There's a perfectly good reason if your goal is to make all hospitals inoperative and/or damaged.
There's a lot to unpack there. For those who wish to see.
NoRethugFriends
(3,750 posts)AloeVera
(4,263 posts)Having a goal implies it is not just "for the hell of it".
How many hospitals are now operating in North Gaza? I'm pretty sure it's now none. Why are they not operational unless the goal was to shut them all down?
What happened to the patients? Driven out or still trapped, with no medical care.
How many patients died from the shut down of power due to no fuel? Many. Including premature babies and ICU and dialysis patients.
How many are dying a painful death in the streets or under rubble because there is no fucking medical care in North Gaza??
Go ahead and defend the indefensible.
lapucelle
(21,061 posts)The Israeli goal is to target and destroy Hamas, a well-funded terrorist organization that openly, publicly, and, by its own admission, is engaging in genocide against Israel.
Unfortunately, Hamas has no problem using and exploiting civilian infrastructure. This particular war crime is a win-win for Hamas.
Perhaps if there were more anti-Hamas marches by pro-Palestinian activists it would raise awareness concerning Hamas's war crimes against the people of Gaza.

sarisataka
(22,694 posts)That Hamas was using the hospital for military purposes contrary to the laws of war.
Was it likely also a point that coordinated operations? Very likely. Debating if it was a "command center" is splitting hairs.
A terrorist organization will not have a central command point that looks like NORAD.
SoFlaBro
(3,790 posts)Fuck the Hamas KKK faction.
lapucelle
(21,061 posts)
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instead of this
Sal_NV
(606 posts)Geez I'm old.
Torchlight
(6,821 posts)Good luck.
Odd though the remnants that were left behind after Hamas fled. Again.
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)
I don't think there was. Centers have been located in residential areas, where rocket launchers are easier to play.
I don't believe they had a command center under Shifa. They can easily put one at a house.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,507 posts)lapucelle
(21,061 posts)That would be additional confirmation that Hamas is using Gazans as human shields.
Do you have a link for that photo?
LeftInTX
(34,286 posts)Here are some. I don't have time to go through all of them
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
Link to tweet
There are bunch more
WarGamer
(18,613 posts)You mean there's not??? Not even a single shark with a freekin' laser on his head?
David__77
(24,727 posts)Response to David__77 (Reply #81)
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AloeVera
(4,263 posts)They did discover a terrorist with superhuman abilities. This lone terrorist prevented 1,000 people from leaving the hospital!! True story.
Patton French
(1,824 posts)Are some people standing by the ridiculous position that Hamas doesnt use human shields?
Think. Again.
(22,456 posts)...could you point us toward a post?
They found guns, body armor in the hospital and a tunnel underneath. Does it matter if there is a command center?
revmclaren
(2,613 posts)Thay have been FFRed.