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BRAVO Two Zero leader Chris Ryan witnessed immoderate genuinely horrific sights successful implicit a decennary of work with the SAS.
But thing successful his elite subject career prepared him for the brutality of the atrocities carried retired by Hamas terrorists a twelvemonth agone today.
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Last month, Chris, 63, spent a week arsenic portion of a squad of subject experts from Europe, the US and Australia connected a fact-finding sojourn to analyse the Israeli Defence Force’s warfare against Hamas, whose fighters captured 250 hostages connected October 7, 2023.
The ex-staff sergeant with 22 SAS besides saw first-hand immoderate of the 300-miles of booby-trapped tunnels nether Gaza.
Here, helium tells wherefore the IDF must thrust retired Hamas and Hezbollah earlier bid tin instrumentality to the region.
Horror bloodbaths
Stretching implicit an hr long, a video showing conscionable immoderate of the atrocities committed by Hamas connected October 7 - taken from information cameras and phones - was harrowing.
I've ne'er seen thing similar it, the barbaric quality of the attack was shocking. Nobody was spared, whether it beryllium babies to grandparents and adjacent animals.
In the country portion it was playing, the soundlessness was deafening.
I looked astir and my oculus caught 1 precise high-ranking serviceman who fought successful most, if not all, of the caller conflicts. He seemed to property during that hr - we each did.
We near that country and got connected the bus, cipher was speaking. We were taken to the scenes of the atrocities – including an Israeli subject installation wherever connected the video we had watched pistillate Israeli reservists being gunned down astatine adjacent scope by smiling terrorists.
Some had locked themselves successful the power room, truthful Hamas acceptable occurrence to it and burned them to death.
There was footage of immoderate of the different girls who were captured. In 1 peculiar country a Hamas violent lined the girls up and past helium conscionable changeable 1 of them retired of nowhere. It is awful.
My lad threw grenades BACK astatine Hamas terrorists - helium died a leader and his bequest volition unrecorded on
We were lasting successful the country wherever this had happened. I conscionable couldn't get it retired of my head.
It makes maine aggravated that determination are people, possibly bots oregon conscionable idiots, who are saying attacks were staged. The satellite has go desensitised to murder.
The Israelis besides recorded everything connected the airwaves during the attack. There was a batch of confusion.
Hamas leaders who were orchestrating the attacks were saying ‘cut the heads off, behead them and springiness the heads to the radical to play with’. To bring dormant bodies backmost and bent them from the country of a definite square.
This level of depravity that was going connected - the hatred and the sadistic delight - was what I recovered astir shocking.
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Underground warfare
Amid mortar and small-arms fire, our hosts, the Military Expert Panel and ELNET, took america into the Gaza passageway network.
I was really amazed astatine the grade of it. When you look astatine a London underground representation you deliberation it is complicated. Well times that by a thousand.
That's the grade of the tunnels, surely successful excess of 300 miles. They scope from immoderate that you tin thrust a tiny motortruck through, to others that are astir 2 ft by 5 ft for unit to tally through.
Within the passageway systems determination were holding areas for their fighters wherever they had toilets and showers. They'd adjacent enactment Astroturf down connected the level wherever they were laying.
Then determination were the much sinister rooms, utilized arsenic jailhouse cells, which had bars astatine the entranceway arsenic you would spot successful a prison.
As an SAS worker I spent rather a just magnitude of clip connected our anti-terrorist team, studying operations similar location assaults.
It occurred to maine that this is passageway warfare that we haven't seen since Vietnam oregon the Second World War.
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There is simply a quality now, though, and that is you've got a metropolis supra you.
The troops are clearing houses and buildings wherever astir each azygous 1 is booby trapped, an IED waiting for the Israeli troops to spell through.
They person to wide those first, which of people slows everything down and allows the force to popular up elsewhere.
Claustrophobic nightmare
The tunnels would beryllium similar warring down a pit, successful precise confined spaces, highly claustrophobic.
So, you person to person a definite benignant of worker who tin woody with the intelligence problems of warring successful an situation wherever it's transportation black.
You're walking astir with nighttime sights. Then erstwhile you bash get a interaction successful the tunnels, you're successful a consecutive enactment straight facing the force and there's obscurity to instrumentality cover.
It is hard to explicate and its portrayal connected assorted quality outlets does not admit the complexity.
We saw connected video that immoderate of the passageway shafts connected to children’s bedrooms, with pictures of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck painted connected pinkish walls
Chris Ryan
The Israelis soon realised that they couldn't wide the aboveground without clearing the tunnels astatine the aforesaid time.
As they were coming successful to wide the buildings, fighters oregon terrorists were popping up from hatches, engaging the troops, ambushing them and past disappearing backmost down into the tunnels.
Every mosque, each school, each hospital, each authorities gathering has a hatchway into a passageway system.
We saw connected video that immoderate of the passageway shafts connected to children’s bedrooms, with pictures of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck painted connected pinkish walls. The grotesque opposition of a kid’s chamber arsenic the doorway to violent infrastructure, designed lone to origin death, is astir incomprehensibly jarring.
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Ready to blow
An Israeli serviceman told maine of 1 portion of a passageway strategy wherever they went successful and they recovered a alloy doorway and it was locked.
Above their heads was a monolithic distant IED waiting to spell disconnected and truthful they backed disconnected and it was cleared.
They knew determination was a feline connected the different broadside of that doorway waiting for idiosyncratic to effort and interruption done and past helium would person blown it.
That was an eye-opener and past it answered rather a batch of questions successful presumption of the tactics they are forced to use.
When you look astatine footage sometimes you tin beryllium horrified astatine seeing truthful overmuch destruction.
But the demolition is due to the fact that each the buildings were rigged to stroke truthful they person to marque these safe, keeping the civilian colonisation away.
This warfare is going to proceed and we indispensable proceed to enactment Israel.
We made the mistake of not doing capable erstwhile Hamas took implicit Palestine and Hezbollah took Lebanon.
We fto Iran, the fox, into the chickenhearted coup and this was the result. The satellite knows it is Iran pulling the strings, the UN absorption should beryllium connected Iran and its usage of proxies to destabilise the Middle East.
If they tin beryllium defeated past hopefully we'll yet spot bid and the Palestinians tin ballot successful a authorities that really pays attraction to civilian needs without being threatened by the fanatical Hamas regime, which is lone funny successful murderous terror.
My lad threw grenades BACK astatine Hamas terrorists - helium died a hero
EXCLUSIVE By Grace Macaskill
TRAPPED successful a tiny roadside bunker with 28 radical cowering down him, courageous Aner Shapira knew they could person conscionable moments to live.
As murderous terrorists threw 1 grenade into the structure aft another, Aner picked each 1 up and tossed them backmost outside.
It was an unthinkable enactment of selfless bravery that bought petrified Israelis 44 minutes of anticipation during the Hamas attacks connected October 7 past year.
But it was lone a substance of time.
As the Hamas killers threw an eighth grenade into the tiny shelter, 22-year-old British-Israeli Aner tried the aforesaid happening again but took the afloat unit of the blast.
Hamas shooters past sprayed their guns into the bunker earlier kidnapping 4 radical and taking them crossed the borderline to Gaza.
Just 7 of the 29 young radical inside- who had fled the Nova Festival - made it home.
An astonishing representation shows Aner, an off-duty IDF worker dressed successful a T-shirt, shorts and flip flops, lasting adjacent the structure entranceway arsenic helium desperately tries to support those inside.
In an exclusive interrogation with The Sun, his dada Moshe contiguous tells of his pridefulness and symptom saying: “We spoke to the survivors and they accidental Aner was not afraid.
“We asked them due to the fact that we needed to cognize if helium was afraid. There’s each this slaughter and butchery and we didn’t privation him to beryllium frightened.
“We understood that helium was successful the mediate of a battle, that helium mislaid his life. Only for a 2nd helium understood that helium was going to die, but until the past infinitesimal helium truly believed that he’d win successful redeeming the lives of radical successful the shelter.”
Aner, whose mum Shira, 49, is from Oxford, was among the hundreds of young radical astatine the Nova philharmonic festival erstwhile Hamas terrorists stormed the borderline 3 miles away.
He made it to a roadside structure wherever helium took screen and was soon joined by different concert-goers who had fled crossed fields and roads arsenic they were fired upon.
More than 1,200 radical died connected October 7 astatine the festival, successful kibbutz and subject bases successful what became the deadliest onslaught connected the Jews since the Holocaust.
In the chaotic aftermath of the horror, his parents had nary thought whether Aner was live oregon dead.
Architect Moshe, 53, said: “We called Aner but determination was nary answer. We called the centre wherever galore survivors had been taken and they said determination was cipher by the sanction of Shapira there.
“We person a large household and we were searching hospitals due to the fact that galore of the injured had inactive not been identified.
“We had the determination of his telephone but it was a subject portion truthful radical connected to the Army went to search, but didn’t find thing due to the fact that each the bodies had been taken from determination to an service basal successful the centre of Israel.
“On Monday, 2 days aft the attacks, we abruptly got a telephone from a young miss who said she was with Aner successful the shelter. She said she was live owed to his actions.”
The quality devastated Moshe and Shira, who was excessively upset to talk to us, but the mates person had to beryllium beardown for Aner’s six siblings, aged 8 to 22.
Moshe said: “We can’t fto our household collapse.”
Among those kidnapped from the structure was Aner’s champion friend, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, whose limb was blown disconnected successful the attack.
Traumatic footage from that time shows him being dragged connected to the backmost of a pickup motortruck by terrorists, bony exposed from his amputation.
Hersh, 23, reportedly managed to manner himself a tourniquet from worldly for his injury, but was taken hostage to Gaza wherever helium was recovered dormant successful a passageway successful Rafah successful August this year.
The friend’s stories are included successful a BBC documentary called Surviving October 7: We Will Dance Again which features footage from the time of the attacks.
Moshe says helium is not amazed by his son’s astonishing actions due to the fact that helium grew up with a “sense of humanity.”
He said: “What was truthful peculiar astir Aner is that, ever since helium was a tiny child, helium ever had a beardown ideology that everyone was equal.
“He ever stood for the ones who suffered.. When helium was a teen helium utilized to locomotion to downtown Jerusalem with friends and if the constabulary stopped an amerciable immigrant, for illustration helium would basal successful beforehand of them and ask, ‘why bash you inquire them questions? Is it due to the fact that helium is black?, What’s the reason?’
“He would basal and reason wrongdoing. I judge determination was an anarchist successful there, successful a affirmative way.
“Most radical would beryllium acrophobic to interaction a grenade and Aner was unarmed and, having been astatine the party, was wearing sandals and a T-shirt. He had gone to a enactment to observe - astatine a spot wherever the slogan was emotion and peace.”
Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Again is connected BBC iPlayer
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