Posted on 06/11/2006 12:59:51 PM PDT by IsraelBeach
Hamas Murders Children in Palestine, Blames Israel
By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency
Jerusalem-----June 11.......An Israel Defense Forces intelligence officer has confirmed that the explosion that killed eight Palestinians on Friday, was caused by a stockpile of Hamas explosives.
"Shortly after we stopped defensive firing at Hamas rocket launch pads which were deployed behind Palestinian human shields, members of Hamas scrambled to fire more rockets at our positions," said Col. M. "We have eyes on every meter of Gaza, from the sky, from the ground and from the sea. One of their rocket tripods collapsed inadvertently setting off an explosion of a stockpile of Qassam rockets. The Palestinians killed their own children. And this was not the first time."
Hamas terrorists fired rockets and mortar bombs from a crowded Gaza beach at southern Israel. Some of the rockets fell near the Israel city of Ashkelon. Some 17 rockets were fired between Saturday and Sunday morning. A man at a school in the Israel town of Sderot was wounded, Israel officials said.
Israel Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant said today that the Israel Defense Forces has additional evidence that it wasn't Israel artillery that hit the beach in Gaza. Galant, who commands Israel's southern command, said Israel stopped firing 15 minutes before the explosion. It all on secure videotape from both sides of the conflict. Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said he was sorry about the deaths, which included three children.
Hamas's military branch had been responsible for dozens of suicide terror bomb attacks on Israelis since the second Palestinian uprising began in 2000. But until Saturday, Hamas had been honoring an informal ceasefire forged in February 2005 by Ariel Sharon, then Israel prime minister, and Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority.
The truce had been broken on occasion by other Palestinian terror groups, such as Islamic Jihad, and by Israeli forces, who said they were acting in retaliation.
Galant, warned that Palestinian terrorists "should expect a serious blow" since Hamas had ended its ceasefire. As the violence flared, Abbas was trying to convince Hamas to back his plan to hold a referendum on establishing a Palestinian state. The plan implicitly recognizes Israel's right to exist, which Hamas has so far refused to do despite tremendous international pressure, including the halting of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority from the European Union, the United States and others. Hamas wrestled control of the Palestinian Authority from Abbas's Fatah party in a January election, but Abbas — who was elected separately as president — still retains much power.
Abbas argued that the referendum should be held on July 26, while Hamas leaders said the vote should be delayed because of the beach attack.
Palestinian terrorists have been using their own civilian population as human shields for many years. An even more disturbing trend is that there is increasing evidence that "Palestinians" are killing "Palestinians" not only for collaboration with Israel (which could mean as little as buying and selling an Israeli product), but also for bumping up the numbers of "martyrs" for the "Palestinian" cause.
When the current Intifada started, after Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount, a handful of Palestinian rioters were "shot in the back" as they were throwing stones at the Israeli Police. The Israel Police never gave the order to use live ammunition. If the rioters backs were towards the Temple Mount compound, from what direction did the shots come?
Jibril Rajoub, head of PA Preventive Security had led the Israeli government to believe that there would be no reaction to Likud MK Arik Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount as long as Sharon did not attempt to enter the mosque itself. Yet exactly the opposite happened. Using forensic evidence to try and trace the source of the bullets themselves would be complicated by the fact that the Israeli Government authorized the transfer of thousands of guns to the Palestinians, for use by the Palestinian Police force. “We have no problems with weaponry since we have enough guns that were given to us by Israel,” stated Abed el-Qader, Senior Tanzim Leader on March 8, 2001.
The film clip of the shooting of Al Dura, the 12 year old palestinian boy, shown worldwide clearly shows firing coming from someone who stood next to the Palestinian camera man Talal Abu Rahma.
A BBC editor was killed by Hisbollah mortar fire, as the Israel troops were retreating from Lebanon, was blamed on Israel. The Christian German doctor from Beit Jalla who was asked to leave his house at 11:30 at night by Palestinian Paramedics, only to be gunned down 50 yards from his front door with bullet holes riddling the wall behind him that could not have come from an Israeli helicopter.
But perhaps the worst example of Palestinians killing Palestinians is when they teach their own children that this is the norm. Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian youth whose shooting death made him the poster boy of the "Intifada," was courtesy of Palestinian television spoke to an ever-angrier generation of Arab youths from beyond the grave, beckoning to them from paradise to become terrorists and suicide bombers – in a word, martyrs.
According to Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch, "examination of the TV clips aired extensively on PA [Palestinian Authority] television" reveals "incessant broadcasting" of programming that "extols and glorifies the dead and especially their willingness to be killed, and portrays their afterlife as idyllic." One particular film, he says, "openly and explicitly tells the children to seek death by portraying the most famous child 'Martyr,' Muhammad al-Dura, calling to other children to join him, in his idyllic afterlife."
The Israel Colonel who confirmed that a Hamas explosives stockpile killed innocent Palestine children on a Gaza beach, added: "It should be noted that the Hamas rockets which killed those kids came from Iran. For many in Palestine, Iran and Syria, those children are now merely good "martyrs" and serve as blood food for the Islam terror propaganda machine."
Funny, this morning I happened to pick up yesterday's Boston Globe at work and the front page was about the Israeli's doing this--wonder if tomorrow's front page with have a correction, with accompanying color photo, like yesterday's paper?
This was my first reaction to the Palistinian's "Da Jooozes blowed up our pickanick" story. I dismissed that thought as overly cynical. I see now that I forgot the old adage that one man's cynic is another man's realist.
The Globe (and the rest of the MSM) reporting statements by terrorists as if they're facts is par for the course.
I watched a filmed scene where a young girl was "mourning" the death of her parents. Very conveniently, a film crew was on site as the kid rolled back and forth on the sandy ground in anguish. When she stopped and the camera panned in, there were no tears to be seen. I turned to my wife and said "This is staged."
Looks like I was right.
OK, so now we wait for BBC, CCN, NBC, ABC, Time Mag, The Times, NYT, WaPo and all the other "real" news media to put this up on breaking news or their front pages.
Better not hold ones breath while waiting, though.
>>The Israel Colonel who confirmed that a Hamas explosives stockpile killed innocent Palestine children on a Gaza beach, added: "It should be noted that the Hamas rockets which killed those kids came from Iran. For many in Palestine, Iran and Syria, those children are now merely good "martyrs" and serve as blood food for the Islam terror propaganda machine."<<
At least this man has it figured out. Many in the world, though, have not. Hamas, Iran, and Syria are heathen scum that cannot be reasoned with. Oh, and cowardly scum, at that.
PING!
CCN in my previous post should of course be CNN - but who cares?
>>>I watched a filmed scene where a young girl was "mourning" the death of her parents. Very conveniently, a film crew was on site as the kid rolled back and forth on the sandy ground in anguish. When she stopped and the camera panned in, there were no tears to be seen. I turned to my wife and said "This is staged.">>>
The article I read said this little girl survived the bombing as she was sleeping under a blanket at the time. I thought "WHAT A FREAKING BLANKET!!!" We need to ship this explosion covering blanket to all our troops!
I saw the same thing (on Fox no less) and had the same thought. Bet you turns out that the dead weren't even her parents. It was so convenient, it floors me that none of the journalists covering it even bothered to question its authenticity.
In an other report it said she had been down in the water when the explosion occurred. She must have dried herself very quickly...
Yeah it's real easy to be big and bad, when all you can do is threaten unarmed women and children!
I pity the fools though.
They keep committing the same ole carnage in the name of their race and religion, and for some reason, they still can't "get no respect".(Thanks Rodney D.)
The CNN online video showed the "dead father" stand up in the last few frames. (It was later edited out.)
I respond the same way to every "live" report I have seen from the middle east, for at least the past 10 years!
You begin to think that the entire Arab race is nothing more than actors!
With gifts like these from their super-dooper Islammawammading-dong deity Allah, why are these courageous freedom fighters having such a hard time dealing with a few pesky Jooz?
Whooda thunk??
More Fruits of Islam.
Children go BOOM!
Ha.
That being said, those "own goals" can be extremely painful.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5067414.stm
Link to article saying she was under a blanket when the explosion happened.
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