During the summer’s Gaza war, hundreds of Hamas militants surrendered to or were otherwise captured by Israeli forces. In the course of interrogation, many of these prisoners were candid regarding the unlawful tactics of their leaders.
A statement released by the Shin Bet, or Israel Security Agency (the local equivalent of the American FBI) noted that the investigation of these prisoners confirmed that “prominent use was made of mosques and hospitals as meeting points and hideouts. Worse still was the digging of tunnels and launch sites, and the placing of arsenals, near kindergartens.”
The Shin Bet went on to list a number of the more revealing testimonies, including the names and hometowns of the more chatty prisoners, a move that is certain to get them labeled as “collaborators” back in Gaza.
Abdel Rahman Balousha from Khan Younis revealed that the Alsafa and Alabra mosques in his hometown served as meeting and assembly points for Hamas terrorists.
Muhammad Ala’a from Khan Younis and Muwaz Abu Tim from Bani Suheila said that they were recruited for Hamas military activity at mosques in their respective hometowns.
Muhammad Ramadan from Khan Younis said that his February 2014 training as an anti-tank fighter took place in a hall located beneath the Alshafi mosque. He added that the hall serves as an Izzadin Al-Kassam Brigades training and instruction facility.
Muhammad Alqadra from Khan Younis said that several local mosques served as sites to conceal war materiel such as RPGs, heavy PKC machine guns and AK–47s. He added that local schools and hospitals, including the Nasser and Halal hospitals, were also arsenals.
Afif Jerakh and Amad Jerakh from Beit Lahiya said that an attack tunnel had been dug close to a kindergarten.
Muhammad Abu Daraz from Greater Ibsan said a tunnel in which he worked was begun next to the Alfukhari clinic adjacent to the Abu Daka family home. He said that in the area in Hazara in which he was arrested there is a kindergarten, next to a clinic, to which he was to bring prisoners in the event of a successful kidnapping.
Muhammad Alqadra from Khan Younis said that it was well known that senior Hamas leaders and their armed bodyguards, usually in police uniforms, openly hide in hospitals.
Marad Amr said that before he was arrested he saw a Hamas Toyota military jeep blocking the entrance to the European hospital in Khan Younis.
The Shin Bet insisted that given this evidence, “it is clear…that Hamas knowingly and intentionally operates in and adjacent to civilian areas… Hamas deliberately operates in these locales, thus turning the civilian population into human shields on the assumption that Israel will be blamed for any injury and loss of life.”
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor this week submitted a lengthy letter including the above and other evidence to the Security Council, and demanded that the world body hold Hamas accountable for its crimes.
“I expect the Security Council to loudly condemn Hamas’ activities,” Prosor wrote. “Despite the fact that the Council recognizes that Hamas has committed war crimes, nothing has been done yet about them.”
Even with this information, I seriously doubt the Obama administration will even batt an eye and will still continue to condemn Israel. And,the liberal/mainstream media will continue to portray Israel as the aggressors while turniing a blind eye to Hamas’ actions.
Hamaas & company are not more than savages & their so-called god is the epitome of evil for what kind of deity would command wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians whether in Israel or to be used as human shields for these cowards hiding behind children & the skirts of women. It brings to mind God’s promise regarding Gaza in Zechariah 9:6 & 7 “I will cut off the pride of the Philistines. And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth: but he that remains, even he, shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah and Ekron as a Jebusite.” (the Jebusites were the ones who once held Jerusalem and then joined with David) We really need to trust The Lord because every promise I have seen demonstrates how He will deliver Israel.
God will not allow Israel to be destroyed. They will have troubles, but He will protect them. He will destroy the enemies of Israel in His time.
In country mosques are like Fort Hood, etc. here in the US. Military installations. Mosques in target countries such as the US and Europe are little more then modern Trojan Horses. And islam is the state religion or best
Also where does Gaza and Hamas in particular get the money to operate? Like whom is paying these people to dig tunnels, serve in the HTA, Hamas Terrorist Army. What is their “balance of payments”? Actually what is our budget and other financial info that used to be public but now is clandestine info? IMO the reason for all the now secret govt financial info is because of the black market, counterfeit if you will, Quack Easing ,oops, quantitative easing money being printed giving O as much money as he wants. To persist in his CD in America. Community Disorganizing. Or Community Division so BF’s words take on an ominous meaning. We either hang together or we hang separately and we are being led to the hang separately outcome.
Another rallying cry from our revolutionary days, give me liberty or give me death has been enacted for real over the last 2+ Centuries of this nation’s existence. To mention just a few places where our GI’s and others have paid with their lives to enable us to have liberty: Normandy Beach, Pearl Harbor, VN, Afghanistan, Iraqi, trenches in France in WWI, Korea, 9-11, our Civil War, the Revolutionary War……………………….!