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Hamas knows that the IDF tries to protect Palestinian civilians as best it can. Exploiting Israel’s “purity of arms,” and its fundamental decency, Hamas sent out one hundred women and children to block IDF soldiers from continuing to attack fighters in a key Hamas compound inside the Jabaliya camp. Hamas knows these civilians’ appearance will at least slow down the Israeli advance, and may even cause the IDF to call off the assault altogether, until the women and children can be rounded up and moved to a safer space. More on this latest example, among so many, of how Hamas uses its civilians — and especially its women and children — as human shields, can be found here: “Israel accuses Hamas of using over 100 women and children as human shields in Gaza,” Times of Israel, November 2, 2023:
Hamas sent a large group of women and children to act as human shields against Israel Defense Forces troops who were attacking a key compound of the terror group in the Gaza Strip, according to soldiers.
Two IDF soldiers were killed in the Tuesday assault on Hamas’s Central Jabaliya Battalion compound, located in the Jabaliya refugee camp inside Gaza. Israel is battling to destroy Hamas and end its rule over the Strip after the group’s devastating terror attack earlier this month that killed over 1,400 people in Israel, mostly civilians.
According to a report Thursday by the Ynet news site, Hamas sent a group of 100 women and children to act as human shields to protect the compound.
“We are prepared for more incidents of such cynical and blatant use of the population,” said an unnamed IDF officer who apparently witnessed the incident.
The report did not say how troops dealt with the situation, but the compound was captured by the IDF.
The army said the large amount of intelligence material seized from the base is already aiding in other Gaza battles, according to the report.
An initial investigation found that IDF Sgt. Roei Wolf and Staff Sgt. Lavi Lipshitz, both 20, were killed as forces were withdrawing from the compound. Palestinians fired an anti-tank missile that hit a wall of the building, killing the soldiers and injuring others. The remaining soldiers returned fire while an evacuation operation was carried out….
The IDF report is silent on the matter, but could it be that the IDF forces that withdrew perhaps been doing so to avoid having harm come to the women and children whom the Hamas “fighters” were using as protection — and that contributed to the deaths of those two soldiers?
Among the demonstrations in support of Hamas now taking place in too many places all over the Western world, are there any that will protest in the slightest against Hamas’ cowardice and cynicism, in sending out women and children to protect their “fighters”? Hamas knows that the IDF soldiers, far from being what those demonstrators have claimed about them, have a history of calling off assaults if too many civilians may get hurt. That is what the IDF may have done in the latest instance — stopping, albeit temporarily, their attack on the Hamas compound inside the Jabaliya camp, which of course put their own soldiers at much greater risk. No, of course not. Anything that damages Hamas’ image helps Israel, and we can’t have that.
KenPF says
And yet, the only comment from he left is a call for Israel to obey the “laws” of war. No call for Hamas to do anything of the sort. The left is entirely complicit with the crimes against humanity that their clients in Hamas have perpetrated. This most emphatically includes the New York Times, Reuters, AP, CNN, and others.
And yes it includes Obama, Biden and all their grizzly gang.
jcr says
If only the radical/liberal/dem/biden/obama clan, et. al., cared as much about the rules of elections.
If they did. Israel and the USA and others would not need to worry about this middle-eastern mess.
And that includes Ukraine too.
SPURWING PLOVER says
The dirty lowlifes all should be hanged with Pig Blood on them Hamas is lower Then a snake in a wagon rut
Intrepid says
Think of it as two-fer.
The IDF gets to kill Hamas fighters in Gaza, and Hamas kills their human shields for the rest of us.
ed says
We can only hope that the shields might revolt at some point in time
Viet Vet says
Hamas, and Islam in general, are little weanie cowards!!!!! COWARDS of the first order!!
RS says
Pretty sickening and shows no valor, only cowardice.
Kynarion Hellenis says
Cowardly, yes, but strategically effective only so long as Israel persists in restraint and listening to voices other than the Lord.
Restraint in war is cousin to appeasement. The point of war is the total destruction of the enemy’s power and will to fight. We thought we could make the world “safe for democracy” as an alternative to war. That is just another kind of appeasement rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of human nature.
All those nations who were to become safe for democracy? They nurse the most fervent hatred and envy of us in their hearts.
John Blackman says
everyone dies sooner or later , some sooner or later than expected . but everyone will stand before GOD to give an account of their acceptance or rejection of christ as lord and saviour . hell or heaven awaits for all . if there is no hell then there is no justice , and the likes of hamas will evade punishment . the religion of peace is a fiction dreamt up by the left to avoid a conflict with the cult of death and the lie of diversity which hasn’t worked anywhere . the people who are supposed to protect the constituents who elected them have failed while promulgating the lie of islam , a 2 state solution and the occupation both of which deflect the left from doing anything to help jews . its the victims fault . the west will pay a heavy price for their complicity and israel will teeter on the brink of genocide while they listen to the left in israel and the feckless imbecile in the white house .
Darryl says
It is the ultimate slave religion where the slaves are in perfect harmony with their masters, even to be used as human fodder to sell for the profit of the western media.
George says
All these little arabs will grow up to try to kill or enslave our children. No mercy.