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Hamas to Israel: If you invade Gaza, we will kidnap your soldiers

Jul 12, 2014 9:20 am By Robert Spencer

hamas-koran-bomb-beltsThe jihadis have seen how effective kidnapping can be: they can exchange one kidnapped soldier for hundreds of jihad murderers, as in the Gilad Shalit deal. Thus it is an increasingly popular jihadi tactic.

“We will kidnap soldiers if you invade, Hamas warns Israel,” by Robert Tait, The Telegraph, July 11, 2014:

GAZA CITY — Hamas leaders issued a blunt warning to Israel against invading the Gaza Strip Friday by promising that it would exploit any ground incursion to kidnap Israeli soldiers.

The threat came as Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, pondered sending thousands of troops into the tiny coastal enclave after days of aerial and naval bombardment in which, according to the United Nations, more than 100 people have been killed and 340 Palestinian houses have been destroyed.

About 33,000 Israeli reservists have been mobilized and are poised near the Gaza frontier in southern Israel with tanks and artillery for an invasion order that could signal an even bloodier phase of the conflict.

Navi Pillay, the UN’s high commissioner for human rights, criticized Israel’s practice of targeting houses used by known militants, saying it contravened international law – in contrast to Israeli claims – and had displaced 2,000 people. Mr Netanyahu issued a stern riposte, saying international condemnation would not deter Israel from “striking the terrorists who are attacking us.”

He said Israel had hit more than 1,000 targets since launching a major offensive on Tuesday to deplete Hamas military capacities and made it clear that a ground attack was under consideration, saying that “we are weighing all possibilities and preparing for all possibilities.” Fawzeh Barhoom, a Hamas spokesman, said such a move would only make it easier to abduct Israeli troops, which the Islamist movement would use as bargaining chips to wring concessions from Israel.

“If they launch a ground war, they will be shortening the path for us to kidnap many soldiers in order to make a deal to end the bloodshed and release the detainees as happened in the past,” he told The Daily Telegraph, referring to the 2006 kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier who was held in Gaza for five years before his release in 2011 in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners.

The kidnap threat was reinforced by Ihab al-Ghussain, Gaza’s deputy information minister and a Hamas member, who called it “a normal response” to Israel’s actions.

“They are coming to us,” he said. “Israel started this, so I will do whatever I can to stop it, even if it means kidnapping Israelis. You are talking about thousands of Palestinians in [Israeli] prisons for whom the peace process did nothing. The only way we can help these people is to kidnap Israelis and get these people out of jail.”

The prospect of kidnapping was certain to touch a raw nerve with Israel’s leaders. Last month, three Israeli teenagers were abducted in the West Bank and later found murdered – a crime Israel has blamed on Hamas, which has neither confirmed nor denied the accusation.

The threat to Israel followed a warning from Hamas’s military wing, the Izzedine Al-Qassam Brigades, that it would fire on its neighbour’s main international airport, near Tel Aviv, in the next phase of its rocket offensive.

“The armed wing of the Hamas movement has decided to respond to the Israeli aggression, and we warn you against carrying out flights to Ben-Gurion airport, which will be one of our targets today because it also hosts a military airbase,” the brigades said in a statement….

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  1. John C. Barile says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 9:53 am

    HAMAS is desperate and delusional. Israel won’t play ball by their rules this time.

    • john spielman says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 10:00 am

      just order the Gazans to evacuate Gaza to Egypt and obliterate the Gaza strip by carpet bombing and then bulldoze the rubble and make Gaza a demilitarized zone!

      • Bradamante says

        Jul 12, 2014 at 10:45 am

        From what I hear, the Egyptians don’t want them either.

  2. Icefront says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 10:43 am

    Just thought i’ll share this with you 🙂

    • Bradamante says

      Jul 12, 2014 at 1:57 pm

      I love it! Thanks for sharing that. I had never heard of it.

  3. wsieruk@yahoo.com says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 10:56 am

    As for the threat by Hamas of kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Just the very idea of kidnapping is wrong. For the Bible teaches “he that stealth a man…if he be found in his hand,he shall be put to death.” Exodus 21:16. [K.J.V.] All the Hamas members are Muslim and many Muslim do make the claim of ,at least, having some respect for the Bible. Well then, the facts of what the Bible teaches on this subject should, then mean something.

  4. Ralph says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 10:57 am

    If they are “Dead”, how can they kidnap?

  5. Kaffir007 says

    Jul 12, 2014 at 10:09 pm

    They look like KKK members with green bands holding down their pointy caps, as well as the other standard tools of terrorism.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 18, 2014 at 6:15 am

    They made this threat *last time* the Israelis did a ground entry into Gaza.

    Didn’t catch even *one*.

    It’s kinda hard to catch a guy who’s in a team, armed to the teeth, with a UAV floatin’ overhead (manned, or probably womanned, by a sharp-eyed jewish momma sitting in an armchair in a secure room in Israel) telling him what’s behind the wall in front and what’s on the roof…and with his well trained K-9 right there beside him letting him know where the *other* would-be kidnappers are lying in wait.

    I’ll *bet* that every unit of Israeli soldiers has a K-9 or two trotting alongside. The Israelis have found their Dogs of Canaan to be clever, loyal and remarkably good at detecting when there’s a allah-possessed human trying to hide, somewhere nearby.

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