IDF In Gaza Pursuing Deadly Terrorism
"The strike eliminated terrorists who had planned to carry out terror attacks and advance imminent terror schemes against our forces.""Many steps were taken before the strike to minimize the risk of harm to uninvolved people [including analyzing aerial footage and making use of precise intelligence]."Israel Defense Forces statement
Youths inspect damage to a storage container that was hit by an Israeli strike at the Asmaa school, run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp, June 7, 2024. The IDF says a Hamas cell was operating from the container. (Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP) |
A
compound within a United Nations school located in central Gaza saw
the usual Hamas formula being played out with Hamas operatives using a
school, generally viewed by the international community as being off
limits to any kind of military operations, for their own purposes, of
shielding themselves from direct confrontation with the Israeli military
using school pupils, and in this particular instance, Palestinian
internally displaced citizens who were sheltering at the school as human
shields.
The
Israel Defense Forces has, over time, and experience with Hamas
subterfuge and its deliberate endangerment of its own civilian
population, established protocols of its own in dealing with the
imminent threat posed by the terrorists while at the same time doing its
utmost to prevent if at all possible in conditions of conflict,
collateral damage from military actions that have the potential to
injure or take the lives of men, women and children not engaged in
combat.
A UN school housing displacing Palestinians that was hit by an Israeli strike in Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, on June 6, 2024. The IDF said it hit a compound where Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists were gathered, killing many of them. (Bashar Taleb/AFP) |
There
are, as usual two conflicting versions of what came next. The IDF
explained its precautions taken in an effort to reduce any harm to
civilians with the use of its "precise strike"
on a compound embedded within a UNRWA school in Nuseirat. Its target
was between twenty to thirty terrorists known to be sheltering at the
compound, among them participants in the October 7 invasion and
slaughter that took place in southern Israel on October 7.
These
terrorists, known to have been involved in that singular atrocity must
face justice and the kind of justice meted out ensures they pay the
ultimate penalty.
While
the members of the terror groups were gathered in three classrooms held
separately from the areas where civilians displaced by the war were
sheltered, they were struck and killed. The media office of Hamas made
claim to 27 people having been killed in an Israeli "massacre".
The number of those who were reported dead, according to UNRWA's
communications director, was held to be between 35 and 45; the actual
numbers unconfirmed, the individual admitted.
The
IDF identified the Hamas Nukhba force involved at the school, known to
have taken part in the October 7 massacre of Israelis. They, as well as
members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad "directed terror attacks from the area of the school, while exploiting it as a civilian location and as shelter",
the army further explained. The strike in question was fine-tuned with
the intention of avoiding harm to civilians, and as such had been twice
postponed.
A graphic issued by the IDF in the aftermath of a strike at the Asmaa school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), in the Shati camp west of Gaza City on June 7, 2024. The IDF says a Hamas cell was operating from the container (Israel Defense Forces) |
That
Hamas uses schools, UN offices and other civilian infrastructures such
as mosques and hospitals where it is known that civilians take shelter,
is a well-established reality. As the governing body of the Gaza Strip,
Hamas is not held accountable for the dire harm it brings to the
Palestinians dependent on the terrorist group for security, yet the
target of Hamas's lethal campaign against Jews and Israel, is held
accountable by the international community for the outcome of a
situation where Hamas deliberately places its own population in harm's
way for propaganda purposes.
What
is even more difficult to digest, is the resounding success Hamas
realizes from its slanderous propaganda holding Israel accountable for
all the human suffering that Hamas alone, along with other Palestinian
terrorist groups, is responsible for.
The
ancient curse of the Jews exemplified by the Phoenix-like flare ups of
antisemitism is reawakened by terrorist-dominated public relations aimed
at the West whose legacy media, government agencies, academic
institutions and unions weigh accounts emanating from terrorists as
equal in credibility to those coming from a democracy whose system of
laws and strict adherence to human rights responsibilities reflect their
own.
A graphic issued by the IDF on June 7, 2024, shows eight Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad operatives, in addition to nine previously identified, whom the army says it killed in a June 6, 2024 airstrike on a UN school in central Gaza’s Nuseirat (Israel Defense Forces) |
Labels: Conflict, Hamas Carnage in Israel, International Community, Israel Defense Forces in Gaza, Trial by Media Ally Abandonment
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