Tag Archive for Operation Protective Edge

| August 21, 2014
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3 senior Hamas military leaders assassinated

PM Benjamin Netanyahu says: ‘No terrorist leaders immune from IDF’

• One of the three killed, Raed al-Attar, was behind the 2006 Gilad Schalit kidnapping.
• Speculation continues regarding possible assassination of Hamas military wing chief Mohammed Deif.

By Israel Hayom Staff & News Agencies

 

Hamas officials announced on Thursday that three of its senior military leaders were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.

Three Hamas leaders were assassinated on Thursday in the Gaza Strip – Photo: Channel 2

In a text message distributed to the media, Hamas announced that Mohammed Abu Shamaleh, Mohammed Barhoum and Raed al-Attar were killed in the Israeli airstrike near the southern town of Rafah early on Thursday.

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| August 21, 2014
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Hamas Threatens to Bomb Ben-Gurion Airport, Warns the Airlines to Stay Away

Terror group tells int’l airlines to cease their flights from 6:00 am Thursday.

Will another flight ban follow?

By AFP and Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Hamas’s “military wing” warned foreign airlines on Wednesday against flying into Tel Aviv, threatening to step up its six-week conflict with Israel after firing more than 100 rockets on Israeli civilians and pulling out of peace talks.

“We are warning international airlines and press them to stop flying into Ben Gurion airport from 6 am (0300 GMT) Thursday,” Al Qassam
Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida stated Wednesday, in a televised speech.

The move marks yet another Hamas ‘scare attempt’ aimed at harming Israel’s economy and security reputation, after a rocket hit near Ben-Gurion airport last month scared international airlines into canceling flights for several days. Continue Reading »

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| August 20, 2014
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Hamas: Israel is ‘Opening the Gates of Hell’

 

Hamas says its rocket fire came in response to an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza home, vowing Israel will have no peace.

By Elad Benari

 

Hamas declared on Tuesday night that Israel had “opened the gates of hell”.

In a statement, the group’s so-called “military wing” said that it had resumed the rocket fire on Israel because the Israeli Air Force had launched an airstrike on a home in Gaza.

The group warned that “the price will be a heavy one”.

Senior Hamas official Ezzat al-Rishq warned, according to AFP, “Israel will not enjoy security so long as the Palestinian people do not, and it started it.” Continue Reading »

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| August 18, 2014
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‘The Guardian’: U.S. pressuring ICC to not open war crimes probe against Israel

‘The Guardian’ quotes lawyers & former court officials reporting western pressure has influenced the decision to not open probe.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The US and other western powers have exerted pressure on the International Criminal Court at the Hague to prevent a war crimes probe of Israel’s operation in the Gaza Strip, The Guardian reported on Monday, quoting former court officials.

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

The Hague, International Criminal Court. – Photo courtesy: Wikimedia Commons

During Operation Protective Edge, the Palestinian Authority has threatened to request that the court look into allegations that the civilian deaths in Gaza during the IDF’s operation constitute a war crime. Continue Reading »

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| August 18, 2014
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Allowed for Publication: IDF Foiled Hamas Coup Over Fatah

IDF & Shin Bet arrested 93 Hamas terrorists, who were directed by a Hamas HQ in Turkey to take control over Judea and Samaria.

By Gil Ronen

 

A large scale operation mounted from May to August by the IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) foiled a Hamas network’s plot to carry out a coup in the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Judea and Samaria.

The news about the operation was under a gag order until today.

The Hamas infrastructure in Judea and Samaria was controlled by a Hamas HQ in Turkey. The plot was to carry out a series of cruel terror attacks against Israel and create a situation of security instability, then take advantage of that situation to take over the PA. Continue Reading »

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| August 13, 2014
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Germany’s Bild newspaper publishes bios & photos of the 64 fallen IDF soldiers

 

Germany’s Bild newspaper publishes, “Israel fighting Hamas terror: Faces of the fallen” with the pictures, names & a brief biography of the 64 Israeli soldiers killed during ‘Operation Protective Edge’.
• They are “64 sons, friends, husbands, who will never return to their families,” the article wrote.

By Eli Leon

 

Germany’s popular Bild newspaper on Tuesday published the photographs of the 64 Israel Defense Forces soldiers who were killed during Operation Protective Edge alongside an article titled “Israel fighting Hamas terror: Faces of the fallen.”

The article in Germany’s Bild newspaper on the 64 IDF soldiers who fell in Operation Protective Edge

The article included the names and brief biographies of the soldiers as well as an interview with Omer Gottlieb, the older brother of fallen soldier Sgt.

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| August 13, 2014
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Hamas Detonates IDF Missile Negligently Killing 5, Including Italian Reporter

5 dead & several others seriously wounded when Hamas tried to dismantle unexploded IDF missile, only to end up detonating it.

By Ari Yashar

Hamas sources in Gaza report that a dud IDF missile exploded on Wednesday, killing five including an Italian, after Hamas terrorists clumsily tried to dismantle the missile.

Hamas emergency services spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra stated that in addition to the five dead, there are several more who are seriously wounded.

“A number of explosives experts were killed while dismantling a missile in Beit Lahiya. Among them was a foreign journalist,” Hamas Interior Ministry spokesperson Iyad al-Buzam told AFP. Continue Reading »

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| August 11, 2014
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George Clooney’s fiancee Amal Alamuddin, to participate on UNHRW’s Gaza probe panel

 

UN Watch executive director, Hillel Neuer, questions the choice of Amal Alamuddin, says UN ‘trying to inject some Hollywood publicity into the process.’

By Associated Press

 

GENEVA – The United Nation’s three-member commission on possible violations of the rules of war in Gaza will include the increasingly high-profile British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who is engaged to George Clooney, and a Canadian legal expert whose appointment is already drawing fire.

George Clooney, with his British girlfriend Amal Alamuddin - Photo: Netloid

George Clooney, with his British girlfriend Amal Alamuddin – Photo: Netloid

The president of the 47-nation UN Human Rights Council announced the appointments Monday. Alamuddin is a London-based international law specialist and former legal adviser to the prosecutor of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| August 9, 2014
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Justice Minister Presents Her 6-Point Plan for Gaza Ceasefire on Israel TV News

Minister Livni’s new plan links a Gaza ceasefire with resuming the peace negotiations with Abbas and the PA.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has presented a six-point plan which links a ceasefire in Gaza with a return to peace negotiations with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Channel 2 News reported about the details of the plan on Friday evening. Livni has presented the plan to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu but he has yet to respond, the report said.

Livni’s plan includes the following steps:

  • A ceasefire.
  • Immediate humanitarian assistance to the residents of Gaza.
  • Measures that will meet both Israel’s security demands and the economic needs of the people of Gaza, equating the interests of the parties.
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| August 8, 2014
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Hamas Defector: Palestinian Children are Hamas’ Hostages of Terror

Son of Hamas founder says Israel’s ‘Operation Protective Edge’ is for the benefit of all free people.

By Israel Today Staff

 

In a to-the-point interview with CNN, Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of one of the founders of Hamas, said that the terror organization is not only the reason for the current war, but is holding the people of Gaza, and in particular its children, hostage to a violent Islamic ideology.

Yousef, who years ago converted to Christianity after betraying Hamas and aiding Israeli security, was asked why he decided to abandon an organization for whose leadership he was being groomed. Continue Reading »

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| August 8, 2014
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Hamas Threatens: Open Gaza Sea Port or We Renew Firing Friday

Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades spokesman warns that Hamas will resume its rocket-fire when the 72-hr truce ends, if sea blockade isn’t lifted.

By AFP

 

A spokesman for Hamas’s “military wing”, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, warned Thursday of renewed fighting with Israel if talks in Cairo to extend a 72-truce in Gaza collapsed.

“We appeal to the Palestinian delegation to not accept a ceasefire, unless it satisfies the demands of our people,” a spokesman using the nom-de-guerre Abu Obeida said in a televised address, adding that Hamas fighters were “ready to return to battle.”

The three-day truce ending four weeks of bloodshed between Israel and Hamas is due to end at 0500 GMT Friday. Continue Reading »

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| August 7, 2014
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Foreign Reporters Compilation Reveals Profundity of Hamas Depravity

Foreign media correspondents in Gaza, corroborated that Hamas used them and others as human shields, dressed as civilian women to conceal their weapons and confined reporters in war zones.

By Yossi Aloni

 

Terrorists disguised as women, a gunman hiding his weapon under a baby blanket close to his chest as though it were a child, and a Hamas spokesman giving an interview against the backdrop of destruction while sitting comfortably in a hospital commandeered as a war-time headquarters.

Foreign Reporters Reveal Depths of Hamas Depravity – Israel Today

These are just a few of the examples of Hamas’ depravity as reported by foreign media correspondents doing their best to report from terrorist-ruled, war-torn Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| August 6, 2014
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FM Liberman: UN ‘Waits for Israel to Do Its Job’ by Not Adhering to Own Principles

Israel’s Foreign Minister slams UN’s moral hypocrisy, says the int’l body should be fighting Hamas’ terror attacks instead of waiting for Israel to do so, then condemn them.

By Tova Dvorin

 

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) issued sharp criticism against the United Nations on Wednesday, after Secretary General Ban Ki Moon accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza.

Liberman said that before criticizing Israel for unintentional damage to UN facilities during a self-defense operation, UN leaders should ensure that UN facilities will not serve the prime purpose of storing and launching missiles at Israeli civilians – and for incitement, which is strengthening and encouraging terrorism. Continue Reading »

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| August 5, 2014
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Interview: CNN’s Wolf Blitzer challenges Hamas spokesman on his ‘blood libel’ comments

During interview on CNN news, Blitzer repeatedly confronts Osama Hamdan on his claims made earlier on Al-Quds television that Jews killed Christians for their blood in matzos.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer confronted a Hamas spokesman on Monday, demanding that he address previous claims he made that Jews killed Christians to use their blood in the baking of matzos.

Osama Hamdan, Hamas' rabid antisemitic spokesman

Osama Hamdan, Hamas’ rabid antisemitic spokesman

Osama Hamdan appeared on Blitzer’s “Situation Room” on the cable network on Monday, stating the organization’s positions in regard to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza.

Several minutes into the interview, Blitzer asked Hamdan to explain some “very disturbing” comments he had made recently to the Al-Quds television station. Continue Reading »

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| August 5, 2014
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IDF soldiers exiting Gaza: We could’ve done more

 

As the soldiers on the Gaza border await further instructions, many contend the fighting is not done until Israel’s southern residents can sleep peacefully.

By Itay Blumental

IDF troops, who were highly motivated during the fighting in Operation Protective Edge, expressed disappointment as the army finished withdrawing its forces from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday morning. “We could’ve done more,” some of them said.

IDF soldiers - Ynet screenshot

IDF soldiers – Ynet screenshot 

Tanks and APCs congregated in a gathering area on the Israeli side of the Gaza border, with troops waiting for further instructions and future deployment. Some of them were preparing to return to their posts in northern Israel and in the West Bank. Continue Reading »

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