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To: Tzfat

Or perhaps it’s this article you’re referring to ... LOL ...

Hamas is losing on the battlefield but hitting Israel where it hurts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3184282/posts

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.606903

The all-clear had sounded in Nir Am quarter of an hour prior but soldiers were still walking the kibbutz’s paths in helmets and full combat gear on Monday morning. The fact that two Hamas attack teams had emerged from a tunnel exit only a few hundred meters away from the fence and in the ensuing firefight killed four soldiers, including a battalion commander, before they were killed themselves, was hard to shake off.

For three hours the members of the kibbutz and guests at the small motel (mainly journalists) had to remain indoors while the soldiers made sure no Hamas fighters had managed to get inside. The fact they had been wearing IDF uniforms, including regulating combat netting on their helmets, made everyone all the more jumpy. The calm was finally restored to the leafy kibbutz, disturbed every few minutes by the booms from a nearby artillery battery giving covering fire for the IDF forces fighting a few kilometers away in the eastern suburbs of Gaza.

The Hamas teams had been spotted first by IDF surveillance towers. The women soldiers operating the screens had received strict orders to constantly scan not only their sectors of responsibility across the fence in Gaza but also what the military ironically calls “the depth” - nearby Israeli territory where the infiltrators may have emerged undetected from under the ground. That was how the attackers who took out a tank and captured Gilad Shalit in June 2006 got through without being detected. That is still the vulnerable area, up close to the Israeli villages. And destroying those tunnels is a dangerous job, as seen in the deaths of three IDF paratroopers who were blown up by a Hamas booby trap while entering a tunnel entrance on Wednesday morning.

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The major financier of Hamas is Qatar ... which Israel is complaining loudly about - to the world, right now!


34 posted on 07/24/2014 7:47:04 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: Star Traveler
The major financier of Hamas is Qatar the UN and the US.

There. Fixed it for you. Support for Gaza IS support for Hamas.
37 posted on 07/24/2014 7:50:25 AM PDT by Tzfat
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