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>How do you know they knew?
They attacked it and the resulting secondary explosion(s) are exactly the sort you'd get from bombing rockets or other kinds of munition that involves explosives and rocket fuel.
The alternative is, what, they just guessed and it turned out lucky?
>They probably didn't.
Why not?
Intelligence gathering isn't rocket science, you have people in observation posts making note of which known militants go where and interact with whom, you've got collaborators snitching for money, some kind of preferential treatment or because they have a bone to pick with Hamas, you've got prisoners they can interrogate and there's always the Achilles heel of all modern organizations, OSINT.
>Otherwise they would have moved further away.
>They'd have no reason to doubt Israel would strike like this by that point.
Ah, now THAT is an intelligent question, Israel demonstrably attacks weapon caches and assassination targets even when they're in places such an attack would cause a lot of collateral, so why do these weapon caches end up in the middle of a dense civilian population?
You're right that Hamas aren't retarded enough to think it would stop Israel from attacking, which means the decision to place these caches there was made with the understanding that when they're discovered it will lead to a lot of civilian casualties.
So why do they constantly put those caches there?
It's not for concealment because Israel finds them.
It's not to deter Israel from attacking there because, as you said, by now they'd know this would happen.
That leaves one option, Hamas is placing their assets in such a way that attacking them would maximize their own civilian population's casualties.
And how does maximizing their own civilian casualties serve them? just check the news.
Hamas itself hasn't been able to do shit to stand in Israel's way, the only roadblock it encounters is international pressure.
In short, the more dead palis, the more likely Hamas is to survive
