Posted on 12/28/2008 10:27:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Mohamed al-Ashi, 28, was in a shock as he stood at Gaza City's Shifa Hospital's emergency room watching several relatives and police officers carrying the body of his brother, who died in the first Israeli airstrike carried out on Saturday at the main Hamas police headquarters.
"I pray to Allah (God) to give us patience and strength, may God bless his spirit. We lost the best man in the family," said Mohamed, as he looked sad but kept his tears from flowing, while others shouted Allah Akbar (God is great).
Faris el-Ashi, a 33-year-old explosive expert and an officer in Hamas police forces, explosives division was critically wounded on Saturday and died of his wounds on Sunday morning at the hospital.
El-Ashi, is one of hundreds who were either killed or wounded in the ongoing intensive Israeli warplanes airstrikes on targets belong to Hamas movement offices and its security forces.
Mo'aweya Hassanein, chief of emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry told reporters that the death toll since Saturday morning hit to 282 people killed and over 900 wounded, 120 of them are in serious conditions.
"All Gaza Strip Hospitals are in a status of emergency receiving bodies and casualties of people were hit by the Israeli air missiles. Gaza hospitals suffer from a severe lack of medical aids and equipment," said Hassanein.
Gaza Strip streets looked empty of traffic and people, where all stores and shops as well as schools and universities closed down, as Hamas government announced a three-day grief and mourning.
Salem Abu Akkar, a Palestinian academic from Gaza said he believes that "Hamas lost the battle from the very first strike, where most of those killed were all Hamas police men, and the Israeli airstrike had threatened its security leaders."
"Militarily speaking, Hamas has lost on the ground, but publicly and politically I believe that Hamas has won the battle and earned more political support among the Palestinians and amongthe Arabs," Akkar added.
He also said that "I think that Israel would lose on both sides, whether it continues its operation to the end or stop it due to Arab and international pressures, because on both cases rocket attacks on Israel won't stop and the results of both cases will be a renewal of the truce with Israel. So a renewal of the truce with Israel means that Hamas would again rebuild its military abilities and continue arming to prepare for another battle with Israel."
The Israeli army had suddenly surprised Hamas movement in Gaza and has suddenly began unprecedented intensive airstrikes, where explosions were heard every five minutes all-over the Gaza Strip.
Early on Sunday, the Israeli army air forces continued on the second day of airstrikes on different targets belong to Islamic Hamas movement.
Hamas movement said in a statement that the last airstrike was carried out on the building of Hamas cabinet headed by deposed prime minister Ismail Haneya, causing severe destruction to the building and several casualties.
The movement said in the statement that the Israeli army warplanes, F16 and Apache helicopters carried out around 25 airstrikes on different targets and buildings all-over the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli airstrikes overnight and early Sunday morning had also targeted a mosque in Gaza, al-Aqsa Television station of Hamas, metal workshops suspected for manufacturing homemade rockets and police stations, according to Hamas.
Israel started it's military operation called "the Poured Lead" on the Gaza Strip on Saturday. The operation was started with unprecedented intensive airstrikes on Hamas police installations.
Among the senior people were killed Saturday was General Tawfiq Tirawai and the governor of central Gaza Abu Ahmed Aashour and Colonel Ismail al-Ja'bari, chief of internal security in Hamas police.
Mohammed Abu Hmeid, a Hamas policeman, 36, said "It is hard to lose friends and colleagues you experienced different situations with them, from fighting Israel to work under the legitimate government."
He added that "Our duty is more important (he controls the traffic near the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza). I still on my work though I have to relieve the families of my friends because we are hard to break."
He accused Israel, the Palestinian National Authority and some Arab countries that "This is a plot against the Islamic rule and the democrat government of Palestine. The odor of blood and gunpowder is all-over the area."
Hassan Abu Tuha, 22, a resident who was watching the movement of ambulances in and out of the main hospital in Gaza, said "A massacre or holocaust is not enough to describe the situation. I have never seen this before."
He added "I'm talking to you now and I'm afraid of a rocket that may land here or around my house or kill any of my beloved. I did not sleep last night because the strikes did not stop. I kept holding my breath. May Allah show us a bloody day in the Jews and their aligned Arabs."
< Heavy Southern Accent>
"Ya see, what we got here is a bomber. A good, dead, bomber. Ain't no policeman nowheres need to be an explosives expert, 'ceptn maybe the bomb disposal guy. Y'all know they's just makin' bombs o'er there in Gaza."
< / Heavy Southern Accent>
Hold on while I get out the world’s smallest violin for them....
People’s Daily is a Chicom paper? If it is, then the chicom will have to explain why they ripped apart two North Vietnam provinces in a one month war over rock throwing between Chinese and Vietmanese border guards. Yet Israel must be restraint after facing hundreds and thousands of rocket attacks???!!!!!
Hamas,, it’s easy,
quit what you’re doing and it will stop
I liked the bit about how the IAF made a last-minute rescheduling of the air strikes to catch a Hamas military graduation ceremony.
**and an officer in Hamas police forces, explosives division...”**
A division which has More Officers than Israel has in their IAF AND IFD.
Legit kill. Go IDF!
Here you go................I have two.
Yep!!!
Thanks for posting - I needed a warm fuzzy.
Adolf Hitler had a similar hatred of Jewish people.
It is little wonder why the Nazis recruited the muslims to murder Jewish civilians in the Balkans during World War II.
The koran-toting mohammedans are nothing more than vicious psychopaths.
These pali-mohammeds are shameless in their quest to murder Jewish people, which is why I have no pity for them.
and in that they are relentless
Awww!
> ... So a renewal of the truce with Israel means that Hamas would again rebuild its military abilities and continue arming to prepare for another battle with Israel ...
I hope Israelis pay attention to this.
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