IDF discovers Hamas trove of rigged dolls, children’s backpacks, explosives
NY Post
Israeli soldiers foiled “an elaborate Hamas ambush” that used dolls and children’s backpacks rigged with speakers to lure them into a terrorist tunnel in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday.
Footage released by the IDF showed the alley where the would-be ambush would have been staged.
“Here in every corner were…explosives,” an IDF soldier explained in an official video.
The forces subsequently found children’s dolls and backpacks with speakers to imitate crying sounds and songs, the footage showed.
“The goal is to draw us in to look for, to see these things…they play voices in Hebrew so we’ll think there are hostages and missing persons here. In order to draw us into the area that’s rigged with explosives,” the soldier explained while gesturing at the pile of troubling objects.
“There’s ammunition and weapons here, explosives hidden in UNRWA bags,” he added, referring to the UN agency tasked with assisting Palestinian refugees.
