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Three IDF soldiers killed at booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic

Jul 30, 2014 3:58 pm By Robert Spencer

IsraelisoldiersThe international media will probably report this as a craven Israeli assault on a health clinic. In reality, the UNRWA clinic housed the opening of a jihad weapons smuggling tunnel. Here again, we see the UN being used by the jihadis — did UN officials know about this? This makes three UN schools and a health clinic aiding active jihad warfare — no one at the UN was aware of or on board with this? There needs to be a full investigation, and the defunding of the UN if it is found to be enabling war against a sovereign state. But this is the age of Obama, and there will be no such investigation.

“3 IDF soldiers killed in booby-trapped UNRWA clinic,” by Mitch Ginsburg, Times of Israel, July 30, 2014:

Three IDF soldiers were killed on Wednesday in Gaza in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic that housed the opening of a tunnel, the IDF’s Gaza Division commander, Brig. Gen. Micky Edelstein, said.

Two of the three were named as Staff Sgt. Matan Gotlib, 21, of Rishon Lezion, and Staff Sgt. Omer Chai, 21, of Savion.

The three troops, part of the elite Maglan unit, were taking precautionary measures in efforts to limit damage to the structure before eliminating the tunnel, when the explosives detonated in the small building.

The troops had sent in sniffing dogs and a small robot to minimize damage to the structure, located in Khan Yunis, but explosives rigged to the building detonated, toppling part of the building on top of the soldiers.

Fifteen soldiers were injured. IDF soldiers evacuating the wounded came under fire from Palestinian fighters. All of the fatalities and injured were eventually brought back to Israeli territory.

The deaths brought the toll of IDF soldiers killed since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge to 56.

Edelstein said Hamas gunmen have used more than a thousand IEDs so far, destroying thousands of buildings in the Gaza Strip.

As an example he noted that in sweeps of a single street of 28 buildings Tuesday night, 19 were found to be booby-trapped.

In a briefing about progress in the campaign, IDF Southern Command head Maj. Gen. Sami Turgeman said “many hundreds” of Hamas operatives have been killed and that the IDF has destroyed hundreds of weapons storage facilities, and significantly compromised Hamas’s “terror infrastructure.”

Turgeman said the IDF is “days away” from completing the military goal of destroying all of the tunnels, though the process is complex. Four tunnels have been destroyed in the past 24 hours, he added.

Turgeman revealed that the IDF expanded its operation on Tuesday night, targeting new sites in the north and center of the coastal enclave.

With the amount of concrete Hamas poured into the tunnel project, two hospitals, 20 schools, 20 healthcare centers, and 100 kindergartens could have been built, he said.

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  1. john spielman says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:07 pm

    the Israeli army should resort to tactics used in WW2 against the Nazi fascists- order every one to surrender, if there is any resistance (ie firing on the army etc ), then level the area with bombs and artillery fire before entering!

    • Daniel Triplett says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 6:08 pm

      Totally agree with you John. All freedom loving people need to get on board with the program ASAP.

      Those who believe we can win a global war against Islam without killing enemy civilians are ignorant and naïve.

      Our US and UK grandfathers knew this well. Sir Arthur Harris explains:

      ” the aim of the Combined Bomber Offensive…should be unambiguously stated [as] the destruction of German cities, the killing of German workers, and the disruption of civilised life throughout Germany… the destruction of houses, public utilities, transport and lives, the creation of a refugee problem on an unprecedented scale, and the breakdown of morale both at home and at the battle fronts by fear of extended and intensified bombing, are accepted and intended aims of our bombing policy. They are not by-products of attempts to hit factories. ”
      –Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur Travers Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of RAF Bomber Command during the latter half of the Second World War

      We must break the enemy’s “Will to Fight.”

      The strategy is to make life so horrible for enemy civilians, with the risk of losing loved ones and oneself so great, that they petition their governmental leadership to accept the opposition’s terms. Every US Field Grade Military Officer is still formally taught this.

      Our enemy already knows this strategy. They’re doing it as we speak. That’s why they’re trying so hard to build nuclear weapons. When they get them, they’ll use them to do the same thing to us that we should be doing to them right now.

      They’re also masters of propaganda warfare, intentionally sacrificing their own civilians, broadcasting pictures of dead babies for the World to see. And just look how well it’s working. The entire UN is against Israel; even many in the US. The enemy is evil, but they’re not stupid.

      No one will ever surrender to our terms if we exclusively use pinpoint targeting to destroy enemy hardware alone. This doesn’t intimidate them.

      We must go big if we expect to psychologically separate 1,600,000,000 Muslims from their faith. They must witness overwhelming force delivered on a Biblical scale.

      I’m not talking about killing every Muslim civilian, mind you. I’m just talking about strategically killing their ideology.

      I believe incremental random Strategic Area Bombing is the solution. Incremental to minimize damage and casualties, giving them time to think. And random such that no one knows where to hide, convincing every Muslim in the World they could be next.

      The goal is to criminalize Islam Worldwide. Islam is a Conspiracy to Murder. It’s a crime, and it must end.

  2. Jovial Joe says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:12 pm

    The UN launches so-called ‘war-crimes investigations’; who’s going to investigate them?! We need an alliance of freedom-loving nations to form a break-away Union but can anyone see that happening with the present incumbents in the West? It will require the people themselves to take matters into their own hands. I see no other recourse.

  3. Ian says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    Civil war will happen but why should Governments put citizens in this position?

  4. jewdog says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:29 pm

    The IDF needs to stop putting its soldiers’ lives at risk to save their enemies’ lives. They will get nothing in return for it, and it contradicts Jewish teachings of self-defense.

  5. Angemon says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:34 pm

    How does that go again? “Lack of space”, wasn’t it?

  6. Carlos Danger says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    the UN Headquarters should be relocated to Mogadishu.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:06 pm

      Agreed, Carlos. That UN headquarters is located right in the heart of Manhattan—with *huge* US subsidies—is increasingly grotesque.

      When I was a naïve, idealistic child, I was so proud that the UN Charter had been signed in my hometown of San Francisco.

      The fact that United Nations Plaza had already by that time become an utter eyesore cluttered with stolen shopping carts and strewn with used condoms and hypodermic needles should, perhaps, have been taken as symbolic…

    • jewdog says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:51 pm

      The UN horseshoe building on the river is a real beauty, but what a waste! Think what it could be used for: condos, shops, JW conference centers…

  7. gravenimage says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:57 pm

    Three IDF soldiers killed at booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic
    ……………………….

    Just as with the UNRW-run schools used as weapons caches, how could the UN *not* have known about this? And are we to believe that that weapons-smuggling tunnel was just innocently considered some sort of sub-basement by UN staffers?

    This is appalling—it is becoming increasingly clear that UNRWA stafffers are not just naïve dhimmis, but that many of them are complicit with the bloody Jihadists.

    This is thus *at best* winked at by the UN—at worst it is *deliberate*, malevolent policy.

  8. John says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 4:59 pm

    I am so sick of seeing postings blaming everything on Obama… Is this the new, hip thing to do these days? I am too rich – blame Obama, I am too poor – blame Obama. I am sent to fight wars elsewhere – blame Obama, I am NOT sent to fight wars elsewhere – blame Obama as well! Nobody cares to analyze what really is going on in domestic and world affairs, but everyone is ready to jump on the darn FUCKOBAMA wagon.

    • Jovial Joe says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:03 pm

      Is that you Barack?

    • Beagle says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:37 pm

      The only mention of Obama is in the OP suggesting Obama (but really Eric Holder) would never investigate the UN. You think he will I take it? If so I propose a wager.

      The one consistent unyielding unifying theme of this administration is support for political Islam and the Muslim Brotherhood. To be clear, I did not say Obama is a Muslim. Given his divine pretensions any religion would be viewed by himself as a demotion.

      • Gail Griffin aka Duituturaga says

        Jul 30, 2014 at 6:13 pm

        Yes Beagle but Obama’s mother loved Muslim men and Obama grew up in that mindset. Plus Hawaii is a really left leaning state. You should see the governor, and ex hippie who was also a friend of Obama’s mom and dad.
        Obama might not be a muslim but he has aloha for them.

    • John C. Barile says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 6:09 pm

      No one has done more to destabilize the world than President Barack Hussein Obama. Who sends 47 million more dollars to Gaza? Who, aligned with Qatar and Turkey, created today’s Libya, Syria, and Yemen? Who emboldened HAMAS in 2009, 2012, and the present? Who installed the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and is trying to return them to power there? Who did nothing to support a popular rising against Iran’s theocrats, yet has loosened sanctions as Iran accelerates its quest for the Bomb?? Your cluelessness dismays me, John.

    • John Spielman says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 7:50 pm

      John: Do you mean that obamanation who sits in the Oval Office?

    • Angemon says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 8:08 pm

      John posted:

      “I am too rich – blame Obama”

      I doubt that will ever happen, for several reasons. Anyway:

      http://tinypic.com/r/2uzs87k/8

  9. el-cid says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 5:38 pm

    Key points that must be made clear to the average reader:

    Nothing happens in Gaza with the direction and oversight of Hamas

    Hamas routinely uses schools, hospitals, mosques and other places where civilians congregate as armories

    The “internal press corp.” is there at the grace of Hamas. If they do not write what they are told they are thrown out and discredited. The Press is entirely controlled by Hamas. Under the Hamas rules, they can do no harm and the Israelis are thugs.

    Some are under the impression that having a clean record of obeying the rules of engagement will help Israel at the UN. This is not true. The only help it gives us is knowing that we are operating at a higher moral standard than our enemies.

    • el-cid says

      Jul 30, 2014 at 5:40 pm

      I made a typo: it says “with” it should say “without the oversight of Hamas”

  10. Walter Sieruk says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 6:44 pm

    The members of Hamas are exposing this own true colors by having their Islamic terrorists hide in and around schools and hospitals all the while they engaging in sending deadly rocket attack into Israel. Those jihad minded fiends who make up Hamas are very deluded if they really believe that they can destroy the State of Israel. For a explained before, the God of the Bible will not allow that to happen.
    For the Jewish people have every right to that that land because that what the God of the Bible Wills. Genesis 28:13-15. 35:10-12. Deuteronomy 32:48,49. Psalm 105:7-11. 135:4.

  11. Wellington says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    The UN is not just incompetent (ah, if only this). It is complicit with evil.

    How fascinating that an international organization that is a consistent apologist for freedom-crushing regimes has its headquarters on ground in a nation which has been the beacon of freedom over the last two centuries or more. It is an obscene placement and I look forward to the day, at least the potential day, when an American President will say to the wretched UN something like, “Be gone from us. Go anywhere else that will take you, but get the hell out of here.”

    Way overdue I would argue, but, of course, it will never happen while the current occupant of the Oval Office is still there. Indeed, the current occupant of such a noble room is a problem, a big problem, all of its own.

    • Jerry says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 12:28 am

      Down with the current Obamination that’s in the Oval Orifice.

  12. Patriot says

    Jul 30, 2014 at 9:10 pm

    This is no Mideast conflict this is an Islamic jihad on Israel check out this article for more information. http://redmillennial.com/2014/07/28/the-need-for-a-moral-compass-in-the-israeli-crisis/

    • Jerry says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 12:25 am

      “This is no Mideast conflict this is an Islamic jihad on Israel ” …

      This is actually a World conflict against all non-Muslims.

      Israel is simply one of the earliest targets.

      Simultaneously the Christians of Iraq and Syria are
      targeted by ISIS.

      Simultaneously the Christians of Nigeria are targeted
      by the Boko Haram.

      Simultaneously Central African Christians and Animists
      are targeted by North African Muslims.

      Simultaneously a slow genocide against Egyptian Copt
      Christians continuous by the Egyptian Jihaddist
      Muslim Brotherhood.

      And many more such allegedly “Secterian” genocidal
      atrocities, far from the Middle East, and where no
      Israeli or Zionist or Jewish “Occupier” was ever seen
      or found.

  13. Jerry says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 12:15 am

    What does UNRWA stands for?

    United Nations Rocket & Weapons Agency.

    What do they teach at UNRWA schools besides
    the Islamic Jihaddist genocidal agenda against
    Jews and Christians?

    “Rocket Science”.

    What does UNRWA do when they find
    Hamas rockets and weapons stored on
    their “Humanitarian” premises?

    They collect them for safe keeping and
    almost immediately hand them over
    to the local “Police” – Hamas “Police”.

    This actually makes UNRWA part of
    Anti Israel combatants and thus
    a legitimate target in such a conflict.

    • Champ says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 12:30 am

      Great comment, Jerry! ..and so true

    • qattah says

      Jul 31, 2014 at 3:26 pm

      i read one article that said they didn’t know who to give the weapons to that they found so they gave them to hamas…

  14. SpiritOf1683 says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 2:18 am

    Whatever happened to entering a building by blowing half a wall away? Thats how we handled suspected booby trapped buildings in World War II. Bazooka rounds and TNT did fine for that job.

  15. citycat says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 3:53 am

    This is all part of the eternal jihad.
    Letting Islam stir hatred to Jews is allowing Islam to advance its fear card.

  16. hg says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    OK one intersting point – to build the tunnels – the hamas used kids – and 160 have died from buiding the tunnels – i read it somewhere but im not 100% sure

    i do know hamas doctor is the one counting the bodies – and he adds fake dead – and he counts terrorists as civilians

    recently hamas has killed 20 people – you can bet they would count as if the IDF killed them

  17. Elisheva14 says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 4:48 pm

    UNRWA is a disgrace. Why do we continue to fund it? It teaches the children to be jihadis. Here is a video:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGJajyjMCbs
    How can things ever improve when children are taught lies and to hate. All we are seeing is a result of this type of education. It is child abuse and inexcusable to use children this way. That is why Hamas can use the children to build those tunnels. A hundred and sixty children died building the tunnels.

  18. dumbledoresarmy says

    Jul 31, 2014 at 9:59 pm

    Addressing Jewish and in particular Jewish Israeli persons here posting or lurking at this time (July-August 2014).

    Please accept, from me (Australian, non-Jewish, Anglican Christian) deepest condolences upon the death in action of these three young IDF soldiers, that is, Staff Sgt. Matan Gotlib, 21, of Rishon Lezion, and Staff Sgt. Omer Chai, 21, of Savion, and the third, unnamed in this report.

    May the Holy One bless, provide for and comfort their bereaved families.

    Something a lot of outside observers – especially those most violently hostile to Israel, among non-Muslim westerners – do not “get”, when they dismiss as insignficant Israel’s casualties so far, is that, proportionately speaking, Israel (with some 5 and a half million Jews) and for that matter the entire Jewish community worldwide (numbering no more than 14.5 million, when one combines those in Israel and those of the diaspora), can less well afford to lose even *one* such young man, than the “Arab world” (300 million strong) or the Ummah worldwide (1.3 *billion* strong) can afford to lose a hundred thousand.

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