Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Hamas executes Gaza residents


Hana Levi Julian Hamas Executes Gaza Residents

The Hamas terrorist organization has reportedly executed several Gaza residents accused of passing information to Israel. The victims were accused of helping the IAF conduct air strikes and IDF ground forces carry out assassinations in Gaza.. Among those killed were three brothers, all of whom were executed in public. A fourth brother was murdered by Hamas supporters earlier in the week after they escaped a prison run by the guerrilla group.

A total of six Gaza residents were executed by Hamas since last week, all of whom were accused of being collaborators. A spokesman for Hamas said that all of those who were killed had confessed to the charges against them.

Gaza Terrorists Forcing Residents at Gunpoint to Face IDF

"Hamas has no regard for human life," IDF Major Peter Lerner, head of Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) told Israel National News.

"We have had reports of Palestinians being held at gunpoint in order to put them at the front, in order to increase the number of Palestinian casualties on the Gaza side," Lerner said. "Hamas is doing it all the time."

According to intelligence reports, he added, the terrorists are stopping Gaza residents from evacuating their homes in order to flee the fighting. "Hamas is not letting them go," he said. "They want to increase the numbers of wounded and dead Palestinians for the cameras."

IDF Warned Residents to Flee Combat Areas

Israel made a special effort before beginning ground operations to warn residents to get out of the way and move to safer areas in order to reduce the number of civilian casualties.

The IDF made some 90,000 cell phone calls to Gaza residents, broadcasting a warning message in Arabic to let them know that military forces were approaching their area.

Flyers written in Arabic were also dropped on targeted areas of conflict as well prior to operations, telling residents to leave the area because Israeli forces were planning to attack terrorist targets in the neighborhood.

Hamas Guerrillas Stealing Humanitarian Aid

Hamas terrorists have also been stealing the food, medical supplies, medicines and other items shipped into Gaza for the impoverished residents by international aid organizations.

At least two convoys of aid trucks were hijacked by Hamas terrorists in the past several days, one carrying fuel and the other carrying basic food commodities and medical supplies. The trucks were seized by Hamas and allied terrorist forces as they entered Gaza through the Kerem Shalom Crossing.

Sources have said that Hamas takes a cut of all international aid that arrives in Gaza through the crossings. Supplies that are not kept are sold to the residents that were meant to receive them for free, in order to raise money for Hamas terrorist operations.

According to Lerner, some 49 truckloads of humanitarian aid entered Gaza on Tuesday. Kerem Shalom has the capacity to process a total of 100 truckloads of supplies per day, he explained. "We usually work during daylight hours; from 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. we load and offload the supplies on to the Palestinian side. That is the amount of time it takes to load 100 trucks." He noted that security concerns had prevented the transfer of supplies on Sunday, but that hundreds of truckloads of aid had been delivered the week before.
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5. Study: Hamas Uses Human Shield
by Gil Ronen Study: Hamas Uses Human Shield

Israel's notifications to civilians in Gaza to leave populated locations before they are bombed are cynically used by Hamas for organizing human shields, a new study says.

The study by the Terror and Intelligence Information Center shows that when the IDF warns Arab civilians of an impending attack in their neighborhood, Hamas uses the information in order to organize the civilians into human shields in the hope of protecting the targets from the IDF's wrath.







Flyers rain on Gaza

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Hamas's de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and other top terrorists, including Nizar Riyan, who was killed in the course of Operation Cast Lead, have publicly boasted of using the warnings as “intelligence” and then using civilians, including women and children, as human shields to protect the homes of terrorists.







Flyers over Gaza

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The tactic is a “win-win” for Hamas: If the IDF cancels its planned attack on a terror target, the terrorists receive a respite. If the IDF attacks despite the human shields, it can then be portrayed as a killer of women and children. The tactic was inspired by the experience of Hizbullah is using such methods against Israel, the study determines.

Use of civilians as human shields and purposely firing at Israel from densely populated areas is a war crime, the researchers say. Yet terror units that specialize in launching rockets and mortars often carry out the launches next to or even from inside civilian residential buildings, schools and mosques.
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6. Final: Raze Terrorist's Home
by Hillel Fendel Final: Raze Terrorist's Home

After months of legal proceedings and appeals, Supreme Court Justice Rivlin has issued a final ruling: The housing unit in which the Arab murderer of eight yeshiva students lived will be razed.

Baruch Marzel, a leader in the campaign to have the terrorist's home destroyed, told IsraelNationalNews that the actual destruction will likely take place in a week or so. "This building not only houses a terrorist, but is also illegal," Marzel said. "I am happy that the Supreme Court has approved the destruction of an illegal home, but there are thousands more like it that have to be taken down as well."

The murderer's home, in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukabar, has been targeted for destruction since the massacre on March 6 of last year. His family members, who set up a mourners' tent in his honor decorated with Hamas and Hizbullah flags, hold Israeli IDs, as did the murderer himself.







Zaka volunteer places blood-soaked garments of dead yeshiva students in bag for Jewish burial. March 6, 2008

Israel news photo: Zaka

The terrorist entered the Yeshiva library on a Thursday evening, when many students were in another wing of the building celebrating the upcoming joyous Purim month of Adar, and opened fire on the students sitting and studying. Only after some minutes were two men - part-time yeshiva student Yitzchak Dadon, and yeshiva graduate and paratroopers officer David Shapira - able to fire at the murderer and kill him.

Public Security Minister Avi Dichter, a former head of the General Security Service, said six days after the murders that the home should be razed, in accordance with customary practice regarding terrorist murderers.

He also said that Arab residents of Jerusalem have been involved in at least 20% of terrorist attacks against Israelis. Dichter added that Israel must find ways, including expulsion, to deal with Israeli-Arab terrorists who use their State-granted privileges to harm the State.

Despite Dichter's order to raze the house, legal obstacles surfaced almost immediately when the relevant army officials refused to sign the order. Only in August did Defense Minister Ehud Barak give his consent to have the home razed.

The Arab family appealed the decision, was turned down, appealed again - and has now received final word that there will be no more appeals and that the portion in which the murderer lived is to be destroyed.

Deputy Supreme Court Chief Justice Eliezer Rivlin overruled the family's claim citing the fact that "home razing orders" were not issued in three years. He stated that the order may be implemented even against citizens, that it jibes with Israel's Basic Laws, and that it serves Israel's deterrence needs.

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