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Gaza mosque containing weapons cache struck by Israeli military

Jul 12, 2014 12:35 pm By Robert Spencer

AlTawfeeqMosqueA mosque containing weapons? The mainstream media and Western government officials will almost certainly discount this as Israeli propaganda, since they all know that Islam is a religion of peace. But in reality, there is nothing unbelievable about it. We have seen mosques used to stockpile weapons in other countries in the past, and Hamas would especially want to do this, since they would then be able to use the Israeli strike against the mosque to defame Israel as indiscriminately hitting civilian targets.

“Israel Says It Struck a Gaza Mosque Containing Weapons,” by Isabel Kershner, New York Times, July 12, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on Saturday that it had struck a mosque in central Gaza overnight that held a concealed weapons cache.

The attack was likely to fan Palestinian outrage, especially as it took place during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In Gaza, health officials said that the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes had reached 120, with hundreds more wounded. Many of those killed and wounded were said to be civilians, including women and children.

Israel’s military said that over five days of fighting it had struck more than 1,160 targets in Gaza, including rocket launchers, weapon manufacturing and storage facilities, and private homes that it said had served as command-and-control centers for militants guiding the rocket fire. Overnight, the military said it had targeted 10 “terror operatives,” six of whom it said were directly involved in launching rockets at Israel at the time.

In a statement on Saturday, the military said that Hamas, the Islamic group that dominates Gaza, and the militant group Islamic Jihad “systematically use mosques to conceal weaponry and establish underground tunnel networks, abusing the holy nature of these sites for their own terror-oriented agendas.”

“These sites are part of a vast terror network embedded deep within civilian populations purposefully by these terror organizations,” the statement added.

The military issued aerial photographs of the mosque site, surrounded by civilian homes.

Gazans and Israelis brace for more conflict as Hamas continues to launch rockets, and Israel continues a fourth day of aerial strikes.

But Iron Dome does not provide total protection. A rocket struck a house in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba on Friday night, destroying it and injuring an elderly woman. A man was severely wounded on Friday and seven others suffered less serious wounds when a rocket hit a gasoline station in Ashdod, an Israeli port city, setting it ablaze.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Israel was “weighing all possibilities and preparing for all possibilities,” including dispatching ground forces to Gaza.

Hamas’s military wing said it was ready for a long fight, saying on its website that it had “utilized only a little of what it has prepared for the Zionist enemy.”

While there was talk about some efforts underway to broker a cease-fire, none appeared imminent.

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  1. Beagle says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    “The attack was likely to fan Palestinian outrage…”

    At least the Israelis are holding back their vast arsenal of Internet videos.

  2. Jay Boo says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 12:52 pm

    Unbelievable (not that mosques are jam packed with weapons) but that the media ignores it.

    The Islamic occupation Dome on the Rock should be leveled flat.
    It contains Qur’ans which are vile weapons.
    It has an intolerant inscription meant specifically to insult Christianity.
    It is a hate inspired blasphemous pimple to both Jews and Christians.

  3. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 1:09 pm

    “Every single mosque in the world, by definition, is modeled on the mosque of Muhammad in Medina in accordance with the Sunnah. …. it was a storage place for arms, a military training base, and was where troops were blessed and dispatched.”
    Sam Solomon, former professor of Sharia law
    http://vladtepesblog.com/2010/08/01/ner-what-is-a-mosque-interview-with-sam-solomon/

    • Jack Diamond says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 2:08 pm

      An interview everyone should read. It’s not strange mosques have always sounded the call to Jihad and been the chief source of incitement, if not operations. Everything in Islam is based on the example of Muhammad and that first mosque in Medina was both the center of the (colonizing) Muslim community and the center of authority and government for the Islamic State. Besides laws and edicts, it is where military (jihad) campaigns were planned. It’s where Muhammad honored those who assassinated his enemies. How is it
      “abusing the nature of these holy sites” to use them how he used them? Imitating Muhammad is never an abuse of Islam but statements like that, which may play to the gallery, needlessly promote dangerous falsehoods. It should be enough to say that under the norms of international law mosques used for military purposes lose any special protection afforded places of worship.

      Ayatollah Khomeini also wrote about the role of the mosque:
      “The mosque in Islam, since the very beginning, has always been a center of Islamic activity. Islamic public relation campaigns began in mosques, and it was from there that Muslim armies went out to subdue the infidels and subject them to Islam…the mosque is the bastion of the great jihad.. and a place of war against Satan and against tyrants, that is, a spiritual struggle against Satan and a political struggle against a corrupt regime.” Khomeini asserts asserts that the mosque functions as a headquarters in times of war, and that “Masjid al-Haram [the mosque in Mecca which contains the Kaaba] and the mosques in the time of the most honorable of Allah’s messengers, Muhammad…were places of war [i.e., the central command post from which wars were directed]”. He notes that the mosque is the central place from which warriors go to battle, and that the mosque has an important function of lifting the soldiers’ morale before they
      go to battle (pp. 32-33, 40). ”
      http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/data/pdf/PDF_09_072_2.pdf

    • Ringo says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 9:00 pm

      Very enlightening work. Will continue reading. Too bad most of We the People don’t get islam. There is no rational explanation except an evilness and godlessness handed down through fear, pain and retribution for the wanton centuries of islam.

  4. Elliott says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 3:25 pm

    “Shavua Tov” (Hebrew = “Have a Good Week”).
    The Sabbath ended here in Israel at approximately 8:30 pm, local time.
    I spoke to my son soon after, who informed me that a Hamas Representative was interviewed on TV, and was asked “You’ve fired hundreds of rockets at Israel, in the past week, and there have been no Israeli fatalities. What’s happened to your aim?”.
    To which the Hamas guy responds “Our aim is OK; their God moves the rockets.”
    If there is an Imam out there who knows this hamas guy – you have to tell him that he has just announced himself an apostate. Another God apart from Allah????? A God of the Jews???????
    Quick, call CAIR and let them know.

    • Jay Boo says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 8:12 pm

      Elliott
      It is not just Jews that Muslims hate.
      I read that the (Muslim occupation) Dome of the Rock ‘mosque’ has a Founding Inscription that specifically targets Christians with Islam’s intolerance and implying that Christians worship three Gods. I would suspect that mosques in parts of India have plaques to condemn Hinduism and Buddhism etc.
      http://www.bibleplaces.com/domeofrock.htm

      Founding Inscription
      Inside the building in classical Arabic is inscribed, “O you People of the Book, overstep not bounds in your religion, and of God speak only the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of God, and his Word which he conveyed unto Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from him. Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not Three. It will be better for you. God is only one God. Far be it from his glory that he should have a son.”

      Strange that self-serving Islam would invite itself into the “People of the Book” as an illegitimate member so as to use it as a segue claim legitimacy for criticizing Jews and Christians.

      • Kaffir007 says

        Jul 12, 2014 at 10:52 pm

        It is amazing ( frighteningly so ) how much energy and time those muzzies spend hating.

    • Rabbisalfer says

      Jul 13, 2014 at 7:56 am

      Where was it aired? Have scoured the Internet and found nothing…

  5. R. K. MacUalraig says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 11:57 pm

    As potential storehouses of weaponry used to kill and maim unbelievers, apostates, homosexuals, female children in schools, etc… all mosques should get the same treatment.

  6. tom says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 6:51 am

    That is hilarious I could not stop laughing but that is the collective IQ of all Muslims 1400 ….lol

  7. TheHammer says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    The mosques are more than just places to worship: They serve as MILITARY GARRISONS all over the world.

    Plus Hamas are DOUBLE WAR CRIMINALS guilty of DOUBLE WAR CRIMES. They intentionally: (1) kill civilians; and (2) hide behind civilians using women and children as human shields. Hamas justifies killing Israeli civilians because they are NON-MUSLIMS. NON-MUSLIMS are considered by Hamas to be Kafirs and, therefore, according to their Islamic doctrine seen as subhuman. That is why Hamas refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist.

    The Israelis, however, do everything in their power to avoid hurting innocent civilians. The defense of Israel is an existential question. The Israelis are compassionate people; Israeli doctors have saved the lives of countless Arabs, including members of Hamas and their families. God Bless the Israelis.

  8. Oliver says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:34 pm

    When the Useless Nations, and the anals occupying positions of authority (in the US, UK and elsewhere) see Israel destroying Hamas, they will seek a cease fire.

    Happened in 1967– before Israel started winning big ( the entire war was 6 days) ( and the Muslims invaded)– the world said zip. When Israel started whipping ass, there were the calls for a cease fire.

    And happened a few years ago.

    If Israel is smart, will not stop.

  9. Oliver says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:41 pm

    RE: Mosques as storehouses of weapons.

    I believe it was 2 or 3 years ago, SAUDI ARABIA AND ONE OF THE GULF STATES started UNANNOUNCED raids of mosques, and arrested the imams and anyone else of authority, if weapons were found there.

    (I doubt that they got fair trails, that is, fair by US standards; just- you are guilty, and executed).

    That was virtually ignored in the US, and still is.

  10. Oliver says

    Jul 13, 2014 at 7:44 pm

    in ” HONEST REPORTING” of Sunday, July 13, 2014– there was an article —

    shocking

    SOMEONE FROM THE USELESS NATIONS admitted ISRAEL HAS WARNED THE CIVILIANS , IN AN AREA, THAT THEY WILL BE BOMBING THE AREA.

    That Israel IS NOT targeting civilians.

    Known to be true, BUT FOR THE USELESS NATIONS TO SAY SO?

    UNBELIEVEABLE.

    (note: Honest reporting is daily, and free; I believe it is http://www.honestreeporting.com or .org)

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