Posted on 05/16/2018 8:00:03 AM PDT by Simon Green
A Hamas official on Wednesday acknowledged that 50 of the 62 Palestinians reported killed during Gaza border riots on Monday and Tuesday were members of the Islamist terrorist group, bringing the total number of known members of terror groups among the fatalities up to 53.
“In the last rounds of confrontations, if 62 people were martyred, 50 of them were Hamas,” said Hamas official Salah Bardawil in a television interview.
The Iran-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad had said on Tuesday that three members of its Saraya al-Quds military wing were killed by Israeli forces in Khan Younis.
The Israeli military shared a portion of Bardawil’s interview with an Arabic news outlet, accompanied by English captions.
“This proves what so many have tried to ignore: Hamas is behind these riots, and the branding of the riots as ‘peaceful protests’ could not be further from the truth,” said IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.
According to the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry, 62 people in total were killed during border clashes on Monday and Tuesday.
Israel has not put out its own official death toll, but officials have questioned the accuracy of the Hamas-provided figure. In one case, a Gazan doctor told the Associated Press that an 8-month-old baby, who the Gaza ministry said died after inhaling Israeli tear gas on Monday, had a preexisting medical condition and that he did not believe her death was caused by tear gas.
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday had said that at least 24 members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad were killed in day-long clashes Monday. At that stage, Hamas acknowledged 10 of the dead were its members.
My thoughts exactly. Sounds like an planned sacrifice for the Leftist Marxist Media to exploit.
I assume the other 12 were shot by soldiers who aren’t Israeli snipers.
I wonder if the injured all have similar wounds in similar locations due to instructions to the snipers. Although all the MSM would call that insanely cruel, it would make it easier to identify jihadists if they all had left knee problems in the future.
IOW, 62 of them were. Thanks Simon Green.
Iran is funding Hamas’s violent campaign at Gaza border, Shin Bet says...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-funding-hamas-efforts-to-foment-border-violence-shin-bet-says/
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It’s a miracle to think there were thousands out there and fifty bad guys( from lying Hamas no less) down amidst thousands at the border. Odds must be astounding. To me it’s proof the IDF is great and Our God is the most awesome God.
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