Posted on 09/05/2024 9:39:56 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie
Sharing important post by Daniel Berke, (from Manchester, he’s part of UKLFI) sent today 0900 in Gaza/Israel:
Shared with his permission.
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I've been in Gaza with Natasha Hausdorff, Richard Kemp and our group of 5 Eyes senior military veterans. Other than Douglas Murray and Richard Kemp we were the first allowed in
The photos need to approved by the IDF.
However:
We travelled with the Deputy Commander imof the 162nd Southern Command with an armoured infantry unit along the full length of the Philadelphi Corridor, along the Egyptian border to the Sea.
The claim that Israel does not allow aid in is false. We saw a line of maybe 20 trucks, already searched, being taken in.
We also saw footage of previous convoys, which are driven by Egyptian drivers to Rafah and then by local Palestinians hired by NGOs (at their instance) being hijacked at gunpoint by Hamas.
Over 200 tunnels spanned this corridor. We went in the 162 tunnel. It was so large and well built that vehicles had travelled through it.
The tunnels then feed into the vast network of tunnels under Gaza. The tunnels are now being uncovered with the IDF fighting through them using methods to maintain contact and move in coordination with forces over ground. A British General with us said it is the most complex theatre he has ever seen in 40 years of ops.
The destruction of the area all along the Corridor is comprehensive. I did not see a functional building. The reason for the significant destruction is because houses in evacuated area are rigged with IEDs and monitored cameras. As soon as the IDF go in, they blow the house. So now the IDF sends in a drone to look for IEDs and then a dog. If there is an IED, no risk is taken by soliders, the house is blown up.
I have seen the drone footage of the bombs and cameras.
In every single home, weapons have been found.
Sickeningly, in Tel Sultan, a tunnel entrance was found in the room of a child. The room is pink with Minnie Mouse and Elsa on the walls. Directly below this room, the 6 hostages who were murdered were held. They were emaciated and had been held in appalling conditions.
There is a major battle taking place in Tel Sultan. We heard and saw the battle. This is a Hamas stronghold with up to 1,000 Hamas fighters remaining.
We heard fire fights the IDF 120mm mortars make the ground shake.
The IDF has found and destroyed numerous tunnels and terror infrastructure.
Despite the destruction, the IDF has achieved the lowest civilian to combatant ratio in the history of War.
A small personal reflection- standing at the Sea, looking along the beach, and then looking back at the Apolyptic (but justified) destruction, I thought about what could have been. If the Palestinians had built upwards, instead of down. If they had invested in commerce and education, rather than creating the largest terrorism base and infrastructure in the World, with the sole aim of murdering Jews.
For your ping list, please, kind sir!
Excellent! Thanks for sharing this report from the front. It helps cut through the fog.
Are you still over there?
Yes sir! Hanging in the Tel Aviv hotel lobby with coffee after last night’s round of eating and drinking non-base food. Laundry day today. Then off to Jerusalem for Shabbat at The Wall, a most amazing religio-ecstatic event.
Am Yisrael Chai!
Thank you for your service, Uncle Miltie. And that’s from my heart, not cliche.
May the LORD bless you and keep you!
May He make His face shine upon you and be gracious unto you.
May He turn His countenance upon you and give you his peace.
>> Then off to Jerusalem for Shabbat at The Wall, a most amazing religio-ecstatic event.
I am jealous for that experience. When I visited the Wall, I felt I was at a portal connecting Heaven and Earth.
>> Am Yisrael Chai!
AMEN! Sing it!
Amen, and thank you!
“I thought about what could have been. If the Palestinians had built upwards, instead of down. If they had invested in commerce and education, rather than creating the largest terrorism base and infrastructure in the World, with the sole aim of murdering Jews.”
Just like some of those genius serial killers or career criminals one reads about.
Thanks for the report. Exactly as I would have expected. Hopefully the IDF will have Sufficient time to neutralize the remaining Hamas Nazis before January 20
Dig a 2 mile long trench from an earthen dam at the end of that trench.
Blow the earthen dam, fill the trench and flood the tunnels.
Rinse and repeat.
Build bridges as you advance at appropriate locations. Temporary bridges would suffice until permanent ones could be built.
JMO, YMMV
From that day forward it's been all process and not one bit of peace.
Arafat rolled into Gaza with truck loads of displaced PLO terrorist exiles from Tunis firing AK 47s into the air.
Arafat went on to establish a mini terror state in the Gaza where children were indoctrinated from birth in UN funded schools to hate Israel and Jewish people were given paramilitary training starting in grade school
Ariel Sharon withdrew from Gaza and forcibly evacuated all the Jewish farmers and settlers who created the world renowned “Israeli miracle “ of making the desert bloom with breakthrough agricultural innovation in green house cultivation and water conservation .
In an amazing show of good will, Israelis bought the green house farms from the departing Israeli settlers and gifted them to the people of Gaza to be the foundation of new and flourishing Gaza Arab agricultural economy.
In a move that foreshadowed Oct 7 , on the very first day of transfer of Gaza from Israel to the PLO, Gazans poured across the old border with Israel to ransack and loot the Israeli gifted green house farms that they had despised and envied from afar for so long.
To the day I have an image of a Gaza boy of about 13 and his grandmother walking back from looting the green houses burned into my memories. They were jubilantly carrying a large electrical fuse box ripped off a green house wall with broken wires dangling from the bent conduit protruding from the sides of the looted box.
This vision of the jubilant grandmother and her young grandson returning from their day at of looting has become a metaphor for the entire failed Gaza experiment that started out with great hope but was ruined by Gaza's hatred and obsession with the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people.
The entire green house farm network that took a generation of Jewish labor and creative talent and innovation to build was destroyed in one day. The farms intended to be the foundation of an economy to enrich and improve the lives of the people of Gaza have never been rebuilt and did not contribute one penny to Gaza economy.
Since that time, the world community has poured in excess of a hundred billion dollars into Gaza. This is more than enough money to transform Gaza into a showplace for the rest of the world to see. There should be high rise hotels built on the stunning beaches to make Gaza the Monaco of the Middle East bringing in huge tourist dollars. There should be gleaming desalination plants bought from Israel's amazing breakthrough desalination industry that produces water at stunningly low costs. This water should be driving a thriving agriculture boom in Gaza and be supplying a growing Gaza City with fresh water.
In short, with all the money poured into Gaza, the Gaza Strip should rival the best planned real estate developments in Dubai, Saudi and the Emirates and Gaza should be a booming magnet for regional economic development.
Instead, the people of Gaza live in poverty stricken squalor because the foreign aid and “economic development” money has been squandered the money poured into it on tunnels and crude missiles ( ironically made from water pipe pulled up and stolen from farms and water infrastructure development projects intended to improve the lives of the people in Gaza) used to attack Israel.
They have finally realized their irrational and quixotic fantasies of invading Israel and sadistically savaging the hated Jews.
As a result, even the squalor of their militarized and degraded terror state has been reduced to rubble.
The vast sums of donated money gifted to them in the spirit of good will to build better lives in a Gaza showplace have been squandered by Hamas whose violent hatred of Israel has brought biblical level destruction and ruin upon Gaza.
What an epic waste of what could have been
May G-d Bless You Uncle Miltie.
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