CLAIM: Hamas dug up water pipes to produce rockets—contributing to water shortages—instead of producing and securing food and medicine for its residents.
RATING:
Mixed
First, the obvious: Hamas is a large organization that both carries out militant activity and helps provide for its people. Complaining that Hamas militants are too focused on military activities is akin to complaining that IDF soldiers aren’t spending enough time herding sheep.
Second, claims that Hamas dug up water pipes are primarily based on a September 13th 2020 Al Jazeera documentary on Hamas’s missile industry. Among other sources of materials, Hamas accidentally discovered a secret Israeli pipeline that passed from the area of a former Israeli settlement (abandoned in 2005) and which crossed over the border into Israel. This pipeline allegedly enabling Israel to continue to siphon water from Gaza even after the 2005 evacuation. Hamas is shown digging up these pipes and repurposing them to make rockets. There is no evidence that Hamas has dug up water infrastructure that was actively being used to supply Gazans.
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Keep trying to invent history. The palis didn’t exist until the mid 1960s.
One other fun fact – every group, every political organization, and every government that has ever tried to destroy the Jews has been destroyed. Fun fact #2 Israel has never been stronger.