This is a map of the Hamas tunnel network in the Yavneh 'refugee camp' in Rafah, Gaza. Roughly 7 kilometers covering just one section of Rafah.
I asked @Grok to convert the manpower effort into civilian terms.
The complex reaches 25m deep, with 80 rooms (including where they held Israeli hostages and remains). Remember "All eyes on Rafah"? Well now you know why so many activists didn't want the IDF there. This is just a single location. There are more to come.
The ~250,000 man-days poured into this single complex equals roughly:
10–16 mid-rise apartment buildings (1,500–2,400 new homes)
15–20 modern schools
2–3 fully equipped 50–100 bed hospitals
1–2 large desalination plants (enough to give the entire Gaza Strip reliable drinking water)
1–2 major sewage treatment plants (ending the flow of raw sewage into the sea and water supply)
One additional 140 MW power-plant block (roughly doubling Gaza’s electricity supply and ending reliance on Israel for electricity)
6–10 km of elevated highway
In other words, the same human labor secretly invested in one tunnel system under one refugee camp (there are more) could have solved one or two of Gaza’s worst humanitarian crises: Housing, water, electricity, sewage, education and healthcare for tens of thousands of civilians.
Or... All that money and every shovel of dirt could go toward infrastructure whose sole purpose was to enable attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Guess which option the people who were given billions of dollars in international aid chose?
This is October 7th.
Thousands of Gazans are chanting "Allahu Akbar" and celebrating Hamas as they hit Israeli hostages and dead bodies with sticks and iron bars and spit on them.
Don’t you dare forget how this war started.
@thevoicetruth1 @jupjup2121 Israel belongs to the Jews ,we built it, we bled for it, and we didn’t just show up last century yelling 'mine' without a map.
I just watched the unedited videos from October 7th that have not been released to the public. I had to sign an NDA before watching.
Don't compare Hamas to ISIS or the Nazis. They are a new level of evil. I can only hope one day they will be unmasked.
Read that twice.
Mahmoud Rajabi, member of the regime's Council of Experts (highest regime authority, reporting to the Supreme Leader), tonight:
“We will do to New York and Washington what we did to Tel Aviv and Haifa”
The saddest thing for me as a British Jew?
Watching the Israelis reference the blitz spirit - seeing them pull together using Churchill's WW2 England as an example... listening to interviews with those hiding down in underground train stations as they mention that this is what the Brits did during the 1940s.... but most of all hearing Israelis today compare themselves to the WW2 Brits - as they stood alone against the Nazi menace - no matter the price the home front paid - because basically the cause was right and they felt they had no choice.
The UK went to war in 1939 not because it was attacked - but because the Nazis were a strategic threat that needed to be stopped - and the English were not going to let them bully and attack the whole world. The Brits declared war over the Nazi invasion of Poland!
And then I look at us today. The UK government knows the Iranians are a strategic threat. Hey - they have attacked our ships - they plan terror attacks on our soil - they arm our enemies - and there is no way we want them to ever achieve nuclear capability. But the UK today is cowardly. So it sits back and watches.
It sits back and does nothing as the Israelis fight the Iranians alone. It smiles inwardly as the Israelis take the Iranians apart. It sits on its hands as a strategic threat to the UK fires ballistic missiles on a key British ally.
So I think back to Churchill's UK - and know that that they would not have sat idly by. And that is the saddest thing for me today as a British Jew.
What heroes today's Israelis are. And what cowards we in the UK have become.
In just six days, Israel has changed the Middle East forever.
We’re witnessing what I believe is the most stunning and masterful military and intelligence campaign in history. And while most people surely realize that Israel’s successes are impressive, I’m not sure the moment is properly understood or appreciated. So, let me try and put things in perspective.
Israel, a country roughly 22,000 square kilometres in size, with a population of approximately 10 million, has completely dismantled Iran – a country that is 1.6 million square kilometres in size and that has a population of 90 million. If we’re talking land – that’s 72 times the size of Israel – and nearly 10 times the population. This is mind-boggling. If we look at land mass, it would be like Cuba taking out the United States.
If we focus on population, think about Maine overwhelming Pennsylvania. Then take into account that there’s about 1500 kilometres between the two countries, with Israel carrying out strikes at least 2300 kilometres away, depending on how far into Iran they’ve travelled. Again – unbelievable.
But this isn’t all about successes. What we’re seeing is also the result of the greatest political and strategic miscalculation in history – October 7th.
In 600 days, Hamas has been decimated, Hezbollah is in tatters, the Assad regime has fallen, and the IDF controls the skies of Iran – regime officials are running for their lives. Yahya Sinwar, Hassan Nasrallah, Ismail Haniyeh, Ibrahim Aqil, Fuad Shukr, Mohammad Deif, Marwan Issa, Hossein Salami, and countless others have been eliminated. Because of unchecked hubris throughout much of the Arab world, chronic and blinding fanaticism, deep delusion, and a complete denial of Jewish and Israeli resolve, our enemies have suffered a catastrophic collapse.
I raise these points to underscore the gravity of what’s happening right now. Take it in, be in awe, and understand that the world will never be the same – and that’s a good thing.
@RepThomasMassie Ah yes, the 'not our problem' doctrine , last seen thriving in the 1930s when folks figured Hitler would just stay in Germany. Spoiler: he didn’t. But sure, let’s hope Iran’s missiles, proxies, and nuclear ambitions come with a built in GPS that avoids American interests.