⭕️🧵NEW REVELATION: The inner circle of Hamas secret partners, the canceled strikes - and the Israeli effort: not to eliminate terrorists who know where IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin's body is
Over the past 11 years, the location of Hadar Goldin's burial has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in Hamas's military wing, even after October 7. The circle of secret partners who knew the location of Goldin's burial included only a single-digit number - fewer than 10 people in Hamas, including senior leadership members.
As the war continued, and senior military leadership of Hamas was eliminated - including Sinwar, Dief, and Rafah Brigade Commander Muhammad Shabana - the number of secret partners only shrank, and the estimate is that recently, only 5 people in Hamas knew exactly where Goldin was.
Throughout the entire war, the IDF deliberately avoided killing the terrorists who knew the secret about Goldin's location in Rafah. The IDF could have eliminated those figures, significant terrorists in the military wing, but preserved them, defining them as "assets" not to be harmed, because of the guarded secret that only they knew and could have taken to the grave.
During the war, the IDF had two different opportunities to eliminate Rafah Brigade Commander Muhammad Shabana - but because those "assets" who knew the secret information about Goldin were around him, the IDF twice refrained from killing the Rafah Brigade Commander - so as not to harm the chances of returning Goldin to Israel. In the end, Shabana was killed in a tunnel in Khan Yunis along with Muhammad Sinwar, but when those terrorists were not around him.
These details reveal another layer in the complex intelligence effort that accompanied the entire war for two years - not only avoiding harm to the hostages themselves, but also avoiding harm to the chances of returning the hostages, both living and fallen.
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