Posted on 12/08/2023 9:27:38 AM PST by Uncle Miltie
Speaking to ToI from wrecked town outside Jabaliya in northern part of Strip, commander of reserve battalion says ‘there isn’t a single house here without weapons’
Two weeks have passed since a temporary truce between the Israel Defense Forces and Hamas in the Gaza Strip began, and exactly a week since it ended.
Shortly after the terror group made clear that it was not abiding by the ceasefire agreement on December 1, the military resumed fighting in the Palestinian enclave.
But a senior officer now reveals that Hamas broke the truce much earlier, in fact just 15 minutes after it began, on November 24.
“We were here, well prepared,” said Lt. Col. (res.) Yisrael — his last name was withheld by the IDF for security concerns — the commander of the 261st Brigade’s 8717th “Alon” Battalion, to The Times of Israel and other reporters in the Palestinian town of Salatin, on the outskirts of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza.
“At 7 a.m. the ceasefire started, and at 7:15 a.m., dozens of terrorists ran toward us from every direction. Some of them opened fire and our forces killed them. Between 7:15 a.m. and 8:30 a.m., we killed 20 terrorists. And then they realized they shouldn’t mess with us, and we stopped their assault,” Yisrael said.
Noting one specific incident, he said that at around 7:15 a.m. on November 24, a Palestinian family had attempted to return to their home in the area. As the family approached their building, shots were fired at Israeli troops from an adjacent home, he said.
“The troops returned fire, I don’t know if we hit [the operative], he likely fled,” Yisrael said. “The next morning we arrived [at the building] and found his Kalashnikov [assault rifle], his uniform. It just shows their method of operating. The terrorist had arrived under the auspices of the family. They have no mercy for their own families, for their children,” he said.
“They don’t really try to face us, but to sting here and there. Their method of operating is fleeing in civilian clothes, leaving behind their uniform, their guns, anti-tank missiles, explosives, and they just run. After we leave the area, they return and attack the next forces,” he said.
Yisrael said the attacks on November 24 were a “cynical exploitation” of the ceasefire.
The IDF had reported other violations during the week-long truce. But the breaches within minutes of the ceasefire went unmentioned by the IDF, likely in a bid to uphold the agreement, which saw Hamas later release 105 civilian hostages, in exchange for a lull in fighting and Israel’s release of 240 Palestinian security prisoners. The ceasefire ended early on December 1 after Hamas failed to provide a new list of hostages for release that day, and fired rockets at Israel just before the 7:00 a.m. deadline.
‘In every house, there are weapons, tunnels’
“We are working hard here, every day, clearing the area. Wherever there are terrorists, we kill [them]. Wherever there is infrastructure, we take it out. We are turning every stone, clearing every house,” Yisrael said.
“There isn’t a single house here without weapons, there isn’t a house without [tunnel] infrastructure. It’s unbelievable. In dozens of yards of homes we found dozens of rocket launchers,” he said. “We found Kalashnikovs under mattresses, inside clothes closets. It wasn’t thrown there suddenly, they were hidden in the homes.”
He said Hamas’s placement of weapons and infrastructure within civilian sites was an attempt to “take advantage of the sensitivity we once had.”
Good that Israel is finally clearing out the rot
For too long, the Pali militias have been playing this attack-and-run “game” on Israel, always ultimately protected from full military payback by the “International community”’s restraint demands
But this time they went too far, and that game is now over ... Gaza will never go back to the way it was on Oct. 6th ...
The West likes to pretend that there’s an organization they can deal with. In reality, Hamas and Muslim’s in general do not have any loyalty to an “organization.” They are all individuals, and they may pretend fealty to some group or leader in exchange for money, but in reality, they are answerable to the voices in their head and those are all different. The equivalent in Western culture would be if you had a room full of sociopaths you were paying to follow you. But it is still a room full of individual sociopaths who will do whatever they want when they want. No one seems to understand that. I suspect it’s because the West desperately wants the insanity to end and pretending, they can make some kind of deal feeds into that fantasy.
People in the West are conditioned to that by movies and TV. There has to be a centralized authority with a Blofeld running things. It’s hard for them to get their head around the idea of a disorganized organization.
Bookmarked for reference later as quotes.
Stupid and evil is a dangerous mix, to be sure.
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Of course they did.
They had no intention of honoring it. It was just manipulation to get Israel to back off so hamas could continue what they were doing without the threat involved.
Nazi demons of Hamas.
Israel has too much sensitivity towards preserving life. The enemy is not human, in the way they treat Israelis.
There are no innocents in Gaza. All the peoples there are fighters bent on the destruction of Israel, and raise their children to be fighters against Jews. Ignore the pleas of naive western voices to protect "civilians" in Gaza, because those "civilians" are active terrorists.
Islam is best conceptualized as a hivemind.
Whether together or solo they are always acting to secure the goals of the hive, and like a hive, each individual will fight to its own death without regard to the lives of deaths of its fellows. Any occasional appearance of surrender should be regarded as a gambit to keep alive the possibility of resuming the fight at a future date.
“Any occasional appearance of surrender should be regarded as a gambit to keep alive the possibility of resuming the fight at a future date.”
You’ve presented the best explanation I’ve seen, and it explains the experiences I’ve had and what I’ve witnessed. The Borg have nothing on Muslims.
Here’s another example of what they are up against.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PSVTfPu1bFD6/
For those that would like to be spared, 12 yo girl refused to consummate “marriage”. Pedo gets a gun to shoot her.
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