Posted on 02/21/2024 4:57:47 AM PST by george76
When Hamas decided to drag the entire population of the Gaza Strip into another war with Israel on October 7, it did not care what would happen to Palestinian civilians.
If the hostages were indeed held in an apartment of a Palestinian family, this shows that Hamas has no problem placing Palestinian civilians in harm's way.
Consequently, Hamas has no right to complain about the death of civilians in the war it initiated against Israel while it uses its own people to hold innocent kidnapped Israelis.
Hamas leaders leading lavish lives in Qatar and Lebanon do not care about the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, nor do the leaders of the terrorist organization who are hiding in the vast network of sophisticated tunnels in the Gaza Strip. All they care about is their own survival..
"The humanitarian aid is being stolen by those who call themselves resistance fighters. They claim they are defending us, but they are stealing all the aid coming into the Gaza Strip and then they sell it to the people for a very high price." — Palestinian man in Gaza, X (twitter.com), February 16, 2024.
On February 15, sources in the Gaza Strip reported that Hamas terrorists killed Ahmed Abu al-Arja, a Palestinian boy, while he was trying to get food for his family.
[T]he participation of some Palestinian civilians in the October 7 massacre and the kidnapping of Israelis is extremely worrying: it illustrates that a large number of people in the Gaza Strip actually do support Hamas and its terrorism against Israel.
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Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, leaders of the Iran-backed terrorist group have been trying to distance themselves from the atrocities by holding Palestinian civilians responsible for some of the crimes, including the murder, beheading, rape, torture, kidnapping, mutilation and burning of hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children.
These are the same civilians that Hamas has long been using as human shields in its Jihad (holy war) to murder Jews and obliterate Israel.
First, Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, then it accuses them of perpetrating atrocities against Israelis.
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thousands of Hamas terrorists and Palestinian civilians participated in the carnage.
The participation of Palestinian civilians in the attack on Israel, though not surprising, refutes the claim by human rights organizations that ordinary residents of the Gaza Strip are not involved in the Israel-Hamas war.
Even Hamas leaders have publicly implicated Palestinian civilians in the October 7 atrocities.
In early February, after Israeli security forces managed to rescue two Israeli hostages who were being held in an apartment near the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Hamas sought to distance itself from the abduction.
Mohammed Nazzal, a senior Hamas official, claimed that the two Israeli men were being held by Palestinian civilians, not Hamas terrorists.
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The Hamas leader's claim that the Israeli hostages were held by Palestinian civilians is yet further proof of how Hamas continues to use residents of the Gaza Strip in its terror activities. If the hostages were indeed held in the apartment of a Palestinian family, this shows that Hamas has no problem placing Palestinian civilians in harm's way.
Consequently, Hamas has no right to complain about the deaths of civilians in the war it initiated against Israel while it uses its own people to hold innocent kidnapped Israelis. Does anyone seriously believe that the Palestinian civilians were holding the hostages without Hamas's knowledge?
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Hamas leaders leading lavish lives in Qatar and Lebanon do not care about the two million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip, nor do the leaders of the terrorist organization who are hiding in the vast network of sophisticated tunnels in the Gaza Strip. All they care about is their own survival. They have already proven that they are prepared to sacrifice tens of thousands of Palestinians rather than release the remaining 136 Israeli hostages held by Hamas and Palestinian families in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip are undoubtedly surrounding themselves with many of the Israeli hostages to avoid being killed or captured by Israeli security forces.
When Hamas decided to drag the entire population of the Gaza Strip into another war with Israel on October 7, it did not care what would happen to Palestinian civilians. Hamas did not even bother to alert its people to prepare for the war.
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Hamas's most common uses of human shields include firing rockets from within, or near, heavily populated civilian areas; placing military infrastructures, such as tunnels, headquarters and bases in or near civilian areas, and combating the Israel Defense Forces from or near residential and commercial areas. Hamas also uses "expendable" civilians for dangerous intelligence-gathering missions.
Yes. They are. Exterminate them.
Yes. They are. Exterminate them.
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They they can whittle on the PLO
And when Iran talks about nuking Israel, the majority of the Palis are gone after the first explosion. I guess the Palis are good with this.
I believe this is an example of what St. Augustine of Hippo referred to as “just war”.
no nation on earth has spent nearly as much effort, time, or frankly its own people’s lives ... looking out for and protecting enemy “civilians”
and yet these are mostly the same “civilians” who danced in the streets celebrating the Arab attack on USA on 9/11
and these
are the same “civilians” who voted for Hamas to lead them
I hope the IDF kills every living thing in Gaza with the exception of the hostages. There are no civilians there.
Bibi should announce a no questions asked bounty on the heads of Hamas leadership of $1,000,000 cash, dead or alive. Preferably dead.
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Any decent family loving civilians would have left the tribe eons ago.
At least they’re honest about it.
If genocide is the policy, Israel is uncharacteristically failing big time.
less than 1.5 percent extermination rate in over four months?
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