Posted on 02/01/2024 6:38:10 AM PST by SJackson
While the IDF continues to provide safe corridors for civilians fleeing from Khan Yunis, Hamas operatives try to hold them back, for they are the human shields Hamas relies on to discourage IDF attacks. Now Gazans are openly expressing their anger with Hamas, which wants to keep them imperiled, and also has been appropriating much of the humanitarian aid that has been trucked into the Strip. More on this public display of anger directed at Hamas can be found here: “Gazans call for overthrow of Hamas as they flee through IDF humanitarian corridor,” by Gadi Zaig, Jerusalem Post, January 27, 2024:
The IDF has established a humanitarian corridor in recent days for Palestinian residents of western Khan Yunis to move from combat areas to the town of Al-Mawasi in southwestern Gaza, IDF Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on Saturday.
Adraee said that Gazan residents would be safe in Al-Mawasi and that the corridor has been opened to evacuate civilians every day so that the IDF can focus on fighting the Hamas terrorist organization and deepening its incursion into Khan Yunis without the risk of civilians being injured in the process.
Tens of thousands of Gazans have already passed through this corridor safely, according to the spokesperson.
Adraee also quoted a number of Gazan civilians passing through the corridor, who informed IDF soldiers that Hamas was preventing them from leaving combat areas, using threats and violence. Additionally, IDF soldiers were also assisting civilians at the scene, including the elderly and sick.
The humanitarian corridor remains open until 4 p.m. for residents to cross over to Al-Mawasi.
“The people want to topple Hamas,” can be heard from the Palestinian civilians chanting.
COGAT official Major-General Rasan Aliyan said that “In recent days, we see more and more evidence of public criticism voiced by the residents of Gaza against the terrorist organization Hamas. The residents of the Gaza Strip rightly prefer their well-being and the safety of their children over the continued military strengthening of Hamas and the terrorist activities that harm them and their future.”
Palestinians were also seen evacuating from the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis on Friday, with COGAT stating that “Hamas operates from and around the Nasser and Al-Amal hospitals. The systematic use of hospitals across Gaza by Hamas has been documented, including Hamas shooting a rocket from within the hospital….
Hamas uses hospitals as places where it can hide both weapons and fighters, and from which its operatives can launch rocket, RPG, and machine-gun attacks on Israeli soldiers. It is critical that civilians remain in them, acting as human shields, and limiting the IDF’s freedom to search and destroy.
The IDF has established a safe corridor for Gazan civilians who wish at this point to leave the areas in and around the last two hospitals — Nasser and Al-Amal Hospitals — that are still functioning in Khan Yunis. The IDF is cooperating with medical staff in order that both hospitals can remain open and accessible to those needing treatment.
Gazans are finally daring to speak out against the real cause of their misery — Hamas. It is not only that Hamas tries to prevent civilians from fleeing to safety, in order that they remain as human shields – it even kills some Gazans in flight to discourage others from attempting to do the same. Equally enraging to Gazan civilians, Hamas also retains control of the humanitarian aid — food and medicine — that donors send for the people of Gaza. Hamas appropriates much of that aid for itself, and what its operatives don’t use for themselves is sold on the black market. Aid meant to be free is instead sold at high prices to desperate civilians, with Hamas pocketing the profits.
That is why the civilians fleeing Khan Yunis have been shouting “Down with Hamas”and “The people want to topple Hamas.” And, with help from the IDF, they will.
And replace them with what?
“And replace them with what?”
Islamic Jihad.
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It was Israel that this, not the US
Pay them for every severed head of a Hamas fighter they bring in.
We’d better hurry up and give their oppressors sovereignty before their people throw them out
One wonders how much they would pursue severing themselves from Hamas if Israel was not being so successful in eradicating Hamas members. Them being muzzlimes, whose religious texts allow them to lie, I just don’t believe them—in the slightest bit. NOW you want to put distance between yourselves and Hamas—after you assisted them in heinous crimes? Sorry folks, I consider you all one and the same.
Oh, okay. Just as soon as you reveal all the weapons caches.
Hope those chanters have weapons and know how to use them.
They’re starting to have a clue.
“Objective: Permanently break the will of the population to ever wage war again.”
Indeed. i said this from the beginning. Dead or alive. Alive is better for gathering intel but without Hamas suppressing the people the intel would be easier to gather by locals, such as tunnel locations and weapons caches.
Remember in GW1 the military had those decks of cards with Saddam’s top people on them. Do the same sort of thing. Maybe you need more than 52 cards. But The higher value the target the higher the reward. A lot cheaper than war, and saves lives on both sides. Turn the people against Hamas and towards self responsibility
Hamas can be replaced by a temporary self rule government of prominent family elders, ad hoc town councils and tribe leaders unaffiliated with Hamas or Islamic Jihad, with aid agencies separate from the UN coordinating food and medicine distribution for about 1 year while these new leaders get up to speed and can take over for themselves. Then, elections with some parties banned like was the case in Germany after WW2. The problem with the Palestinians is they have never had to take responsibility for themselves. Always ruled by autocrats - Egypt, Jordan, Arafat & the PLO, and now Hamas. All authoritarian, all inciting towards violence and hate and victimhood. With some administration by Israel who had been providing all their trade, telecoms, electricity, water, sewage, taxation an even currency they have a lot of carrots and sticks to employ. If the Palestinians want to be a free people it’s up to them to be in charge of their destiny and responsible for keeping the radicals in check. The alternative is just more carnage. Their proximity to Israel actually provides them an example of how to run a civil society, and long term Israel is truly their best possible neighbor. It’s not like they can trade with Egypt and Jordan those countries are just about as poor as the Palestinians. They need Israel as a partner but can’t see past the hate they have been raised on. Maybe now they will.
Front Page Magazine ^ | 27 january 2006 | Robert Spencer
“The denial started almost immediately after Hamas captured
57% of the seats in the Palestinian parliament. AP reported that “Hamas capitalized on widespread discontent with years of Fatah corruption and ineffectiveness. Much of its campaign focused on internal Palestinian issues, while playing down the conflict with Israel.” Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice opined: “Palestinian people have apparently voted for change, but we believe their aspirations for peace and a peaceful life remain unchanged.”
But what kind of peace? And how does Hamas (Harakat Muqawama Islamiyya — the Islamic Resistance Movement) propose to rid the Palestinian Authority of corruption? To these questions the answer has been clear for as long as Hamas has existed; the answer to both is Islam. The Hamas Charter of August 18, 1988 quotes Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, the first modern Islamic terror organization and the direct forefather of Hamas: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”
The money and brain power of hamas is not in Gaza
Those leaders need to be exterminated not treated like Gerry Adams
And their billions they’ve hoarded we gave them appropriated
“ The money and brain power of hamas is not in Gaza
Those leaders need to be exterminated …”
Yep.
Be alone with one, in a friendly, relaxed situation. Disarm him or her with friendly banter.
Then this or similar:... "[their name], I know you are a Muslim, and I would never think of trying to convert you to anything else. But do you, as a Muslim, believe that other people should be free to believe in their religions too, whatever they may be, Catholic, Jew, Hindu, Presbyterian, Baptist, and so forth? Watch their eyes. Listen to their response.
The first Muslim I asked the question regarding other religions had been a friend for around six months. He was about as "moderate" and a friendly Muslim as you'll ever meet.
He was well educated, a Colonel in the Egyptian army, his wife a surgeon.
When I asked him the question, you should have seen the look of pure chilling hatred that came across his face. He looked me right in the eye. His response: "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammed is his messenger".
Then he went right back to normal.
Every non Muslim (infidel) needs to read a true translation of the Holy Quran or Koran. Then they might understand why this is happening and why it will never stop happening.
IMHO these are probably the most accurate translations, and they are FREE.
Yah. Might be hard to prove. But, worth a shot.
This sort of thing is how Hussain (no, not Obama, his namesake in Irag) spread terrorism throughout the middle east. He paid ~$20k to every family whose kid killed himself in a terrorist act, like a bomb in an Israeli bus or temple.
‘Bout time someone did the opposite. Kill a terrorist and collect a bounty.
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