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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
BBC's Jon Donnison says Israeli officials say kidnapping was NOT the work of Hamas. A lone cell responsible. Oh well, at least hundreds of people died.
Jon Donnison @JonDonnison · 9h
Mickey Rosenfeld said lone cells much harder to track. Said they would find whoever was now protecting the two suspects.
Jon Donnison @JonDonnison · 9h
Israeli police spokes Mickey Rosenfeld also said if kidnapping had been ordered by Hamas leadership, they'd have known about it in advance.
Jon Donnison @JonDonnison · 14h
Seems to contradict the line from Netanyahu government. 2/2
Jon Donnison @JonDonnison · 14h
Israeli police MickeyRosenfeld tells me men who killed 3 Israeli teens def lone cell, hamas affiliated but not operating under leadership1/2
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It was always known these people acted as a lone cell. Hence why Israel went around arresting Hamas operatives in the West Bank instead of going directly after the leadership in Gaza. Notice how all of my previous posts talk about funding and hiding their operatives. Not ordering the murders.
This was also not the "pretext for war" in the Gaza Strip. The war happened after Hamas responded to arrests with rocket fire and wouldn't stop the rocket fire. It escalated once Israel discovered the network of tunnels underneath their border.