This article from the NY Times seems to be the source: https://archive.li/09NnN
The title makes it sound like Hamas is shooting Israel’s bombs back at Israel, but Hamas’ arsenal are primarily of Iranian origin. The article reports that they do scavenge explosives from unexploded ordinance, but not the amount. However, they do take large amounts of scrap like plumbing pipes from Israeli settlements, which are used to make bombs.
I’m not an explosives expert but I would hazard a guess that scavenging missiles and such that don’t go off is not going to be a viable source of material to make more missiles, factoring in the risk involved.
This Medium article is poorly sourced.
The NYT article is from 2021.
The oft-repeated idea that Iran supplies the majority of Hamas weapons is also poorly sourced. It is usually attributed to the CIA’s World Factbook or former US generals who now are talking heads for think tanks. These sources are highly biased.
But one thing that has been well documented is the Hamas unexploded ordinance team. They have over a decade of experience disarming and retrieving Israeli bombs from Gazan homes and businesses.
“That’s poorly sourced, and that’s poorly, sourced, but here is an idea I’m not going to provide a source for” is not a great move.
Proof the US is supplying Hamas with weapons.
The supply chain is a little fucked though.
Imagine what humanity could do if we used our resources for humanitarian purposes.
Such as Hamas using their tunnels for food and medicine instead of missiles from Iran?
The world I imagine wouldn’t need tunnels, or land grabs or genocide.
You are an idiot if you think Israel has the monopoly on any of those things.
You’re idiot who thinks they don’t after they carpet bombed Gaza and wiped out 30k+ lives.
Using civilians as human shields is a war crime.
It is also a major tactic by Hamas to sway public opinion by people that know no better. One that has been admitted too for decades. Hamas struck first with a terrible atrocity, they knew what would happen yet they did it anyway. It is on their hands that the blood drips from.
Pointing fingers at a bad thing to distract from a horrific thing seems like a bad tactic.
If you think the conflict over Palestinians’ right to clean water and electricity started with Hamas, you may already be confused, though.
Calling people human shields because they are in their own home as a pretense to bomb them is a war crime.
If a terrorist holds a baby, do you shoot the baby? Well, Israel would be ready to shoot a handful just to kill one person slightly affiliated with Hamas*.
Man if there were only some way to prevent explosives from getting to Hamas…