Shift To Work-From-Home A Snap For Hamas Bombmakers Using Family As Human Shields

“We’ve been following the work-from-home model for more than a decade.”

Gaza City, March 30 – Changes in professional habits in response to the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in struggles for many employees and contractors transitioning to a transfer of at least some professional functionality to domestic environs, but that does not include ordnance manufacturers operating within the militant Islamist organization that governs this coastal territory, observers have noted, since those explosives producers already operate in such a setting to exploit the reluctance of the Israeli military to strike where they know noncombatant women and children also reside.

Hamas and other terrorist groups operating in the Gaza Strip have long placed their positions, facilities, depots, and other logistical and military assets inside, under, or in close proximity to homes, child care centers, hospitals, and similar sites, in violation of the Laws of Armed Conflict, knowing that Israel will often refrain from hitting such targets for fear of killing innocents, and that if Israel does conduct such a strike, the inevitable civilian casualties can serve as weapons in the ongoing propaganda campaign to portray Israel as monstrous. This disposition gave these groups a head start on the new trend amid COVID-19 adjustments taking place worldwide to mitigate the contagion of the pathogen by discouraging the congregation of people in offices, and enabling or mandating work-from-home arrangements, a spokesman for Hamas boasted today.

“We’re way ahead of the game in that department,” gushed Fawzi Barhoum. “We’ve been following the work-from-home model for more than a decade. Our experience in that mode of operation, that professional culture, has helped us avoid any major disruptions where others have encountered major management and logistical setbacks. It’s in our wheelhouse.”

Experts expect Hamas and its allies to maintain their edge in other areas of structure, procedures, and logistics in the effort to adjust to coronavirus. “Many Hamas operatives are already practiced in the use of masks similar to the N95 and other types,” observed Oyva Avoy of the World Health Organization, referring to measures Hamas members take in confrontation with IDF troops during violent demonstrations, to avoid or reduce the effects of tear gas. “We have also witnessed many countries facing this scourge, such as China and Iran, for example, implement media strategies that will look familiar to anyone who has followed Hamas’s approach whenever casualties occur in Gaza, as will the mainstream international media’s uncritical acceptance of the narrative put forth as part of that strategy.”

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