re: #425 Arbalest

What are the chances that the IDF is about to stage a Reverse Entebbe?

It shouldn’t be too hard to have 4 or 5 “ambulances” with 3 or 4 “wounded” arrive, followed by several carloads of “grieving relatives” show up at the hospital, perhaps infiltrate into the ER, seize the various basement access points, replace the staff (evacuated for questioning) to maintain care of the patients while also evacuating them.

Maintaining the fiction of ongoing hospital operations might give them a chance to seize the Hamas warriors. Having a couple of infantry platoons nearby and ready, and one of erkavas seems a prudent option.

As Hamas is known to use suicide bombers, all seized would have to be stripped down to their sandals and jocks.

I’d pay money to see them then led out of the hospital.

If they’re down there, the tunnels are likely to be heavily booby-trapped. Beter just to pump in some cyanide gas or something than to risk IDF lives.