Posted on 07/30/2014 9:10:53 AM PDT by Nachum
Israeli security forces have captured a senior Hamas commander in the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip - and in doing so thwarted a creative plan to infiltrate Israel to commit a terrorist attack.
The terrorist - said to be a member of an elite commando unit within Hamas's "military wing", the Ezzadine Al Kassam Brigades - was interrogated by the Shabak (Israel Security Agency), and confessed to having been sent to Malaysia to gain paragliding training, which he was to use to infiltrate into southern Israel to carry out an attack - potentially a kidnapping - in the event of an Israeli operation like the one launched 23 days ago.
The terrorists also told interrogators that he had coordinated anti-tank ambushes and set up sniper positions against IDF forces during Operation Protective Edge. The sniper positions were placed in the tenth floor of the Red Cross building in Khan Younis, in line with Hamas's doctrine of using sensitive civilian buildings as military posts to make it more difficult for Israel to strike them without incurring civilian casualties.
The terrorist was enlisted into Hamas in 2007, and underwent basic combat training; in 2013 he was recruited to an "advanced" commando unit of Ezzadine al-Kassam, in which he was drilled in the use of a wide variety weapons including pistols, M-16 and AK-47 assault rifles, RPGs, PKC heavy machine guns, and locally-produced hand grenades.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
I remember reading a story during the MH370 episode of a group of Malaysians who were arrested by the police there because they were planning to join the war in Gaza.
Not Indonesia in honor of you-know-who?
It’s where 9/11 was planned.
Notice that most of the terrorist objectives relate to kidnapping. Why? Because of past exchanges where a kidnapped Israeli citizen or soldier has been successfully exchanged against hundreds of terrorists. That effectively put a target on the head of every Israeli, just like Obama’s prisoner exchange with the Taliban has put a target on the head of every American soldier.
Just a suggestion for Israel, take the gloves off. Either the civilians will leave, giving you a clear killing field. Or they will pay the price for their support of your enemies.
There's a simple solution to that. Stop taking prisoners.
Interrogation!!! Water Boarding. maybe???
The bombing of Germany 1944-45 or in Japan was done WITHOUT concerns for civilian casualties by us the Americans and it worked that time. Long before the stupid UN was created!!!
And by ending the war quickly, without an invasion of the Japanese mainland, may have saved a million or more lives.
Another example of the thug terrorists for whom, it seems, all the world is now cheering.
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