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Breaking ceasefire, Hamas abducts soldier, kills two others

Aug 1, 2014 9:22 am By Robert Spencer

IDFGazaThis is the sixth ceasefire that Hamas has broken during the short period of this present conflict. How many more will the Obama White House demand that the Israelis accept? How long will the international media continue to try to whitewash the bloody jihadists of Hamas?

“Breaking Ceasefire, Hamas Abducts Soldier, Kills Two Others,” Arutz Sheva, August 1, 2014:

The IDF released for publication the name of the soldier feared abducted by terrorists in Gaza. The missing soldier has been named as Second Lieutenant (Platoon Leader) Hadar Goldin, 23, from Kfar Saba. Goldin serves in the Givati Brigade.

The IDF Spokesperson’s office announced Friday that at about 9:30 am, terrorists opened fire on Israeli forces in southern Gaza, triggering a fierce exchange of fire, and preliminary information indicates that there is a concern that a soldier was kidnapped during the fighting.

Two other soldiers were reportedly killed in the same gunfight.

An investigation is underway and at this time, the IDF maintains a high-level operational and intelligence effort to locate the soldier.

“We are continuing our activities on the ground,” IDF Spokesman Peter Lerner stated. “Our initial indications suggest a soldier has been abducted by terrorists in an incident where terrorists breached the ceasefire.”

The soldier’s family has been notified.

Heavy fighting broke out on the outskirts of Rafah shortly after the UN and US-brokered “humanitarian ceasefire” went into effect, after a group of terrorists allegedly emerged from a tunnel and began opening heavy fire at IDF forces stationed there.

At least one report, this time from Walla! News, says that a suicide bomber detonated himself directly next to IDF forces before the fighting began, wounding several soldiers.

Intense clashes ensued; according to Palestinian media sources, thirty people were killed, at least eight terrorists among them – though the number is likely to be higher, as Palestinian sources regularly report terrorist deaths as civilians. Roughly 100 others were wounded, according to reports.

A senior IDF commander stated on condition of anonymity that the condition of the missing soldier is unclear.

“We don’t know whether he was wounded during the attack,” he said.

Meanwhile, Islamic Jihad officials have been told by Egypt that talks for a long-term truce have been postponed.

“The Egyptians contacted the Islamic Jihad and said Israel told them that a soldier has been captured,” the terror group’s deputy leader Ziad al-Nakhale told AFP. “The talks have been postponed.”

Hamas has tried to blame the broken cease-fire on Israel, according to AFP.

“It is the occupation which violated the ceasefire. The Palestinian resistance acted based on… the right to self defense (and) to stop the massacres of our people,” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said in a statement.

Hamas also claimed reports of the abduction – which it has not confirmed or denied, at least in English-speaking media – were simply “justification for Israel retreating from the truce, and a cover-up for massacres especially in Rafah.”

The United Nations said it was informed by Israel of “a serious incident this morning after the start of the humanitarian ceasefire at 8:00 am (0500 GMT), involving a tunnel behind IDF (army) lines in the Rafah area.”

“Two soldiers were reportedly killed, as well as a number of Palestinians,” said a statement from the UN special coordinator for Middle East peace, Robert Serry.

“If corroborated, this would constitute a serious violation of the humanitarian ceasefire… by Gazan militant factions, which should be condemned in the strongest terms,” the statement said.

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  1. Diane Harvey says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 10:05 am

    This most recent event in the Islamic war (of 1400 years’ duration; all of it caused and perpetuated by the Muslims) has been quite revealing to a lot of the unknowing out there. Because Israel is not backing down this time – and is following Nelson Muntz’s advice of “Finishing the job” – more and more are waking up to the incredible barbaric tactics and practices of Hamas and this ISIS.

    The pictures coming out of Syria, Iraq are just horrendous. While that of course is true, that is also black-n-white, straight-up Islam. What we’re seeing is nothing unusual when it comes to Muslim practices. This is all to the good in terms of educating non-Muslims. This time, the MSM is unable to contain the truth about Hamas (though not for the lack of trying; good job, Brian Williams and others).

    • Charli Main says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 10:50 am

      Hope your right Diane—-
      I have spent the day watching, on and off, BBC and ITV news programmes.
      Guess what ???? British reporters in Gaza, adorned in the requisite flac jackets, ranting on about Israeli tank fire, endless close ups shorts of demolished buildings, endless close ups of children being rushed into hospitals full off screaming, howling women—-with a constant reporter commentary about the Israelis doing this, that and the other, to the poor traumatised Gazans.
      Believe me the “poor Gazan victim” card is being fully played out on British television.!!!!!!!

      • Mirren10 says

        Aug 1, 2014 at 2:30 pm

        ”I have spent the day watching, on and off, BBC and ITV news programmes.”

        You’ve a stronger stomach than I have, Charli. I can’t stand to watch the repulsive bias, emotional propaganda, and outright lies. It sends my blood pressure sky high.

        • wildjew says

          Aug 1, 2014 at 5:05 pm

          Was the BBC reporting sympathetically from bombed out German cities during the second world war?

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          Aug 1, 2014 at 10:19 pm

          Our Aussie ABC’s coverage of this – which I am keeping an eye on, via their online “Just In” news portal, has been pretty bad. Infuriatingly so. They do have their own correspondent but often recycle or blend in material from Reuters, AFP, AP et al, which is of course heavily Islamophile.

          Something I have noticed is that whereas “Palestinians” (sic) are always described as being “killed”, all these reports say that Israeli soldiers “have died”. No IDF soldier is “killed”. He just “dies”.

          Creepy, eh? I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a report from the non-Israeli press in which it is said that an IDF soldier has been “killed”.

          I don’t watch the TV news. Probably just as well; or I’d be throwing things at the screen.

      • Lynne Newington says

        Aug 1, 2014 at 7:49 pm

        Britain and the Arabs go back a long way, and they always felt guilty for their betrayal and during the first settlements the Jews were forbidden to bear arms against them.. and it was only with the wit of Moshe Dyan in many cases, they survived even then.

      • SpiritOf1683 says

        Aug 2, 2014 at 3:39 pm

        You spent the day watching, on and off, BBC and ITV news programmes. I find it almost impossible to spend 10 seconds watching the BBC and ITV news programmes, because I know only too well what the script will be.

  2. EYESOPEN says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 10:27 am

    I know it sounds cold, but personally I agree with Mac-101. I certainly would not want to be captured by Hamas if I were an IDF soldier. However, this was apparently an ambush that took place too quickly to do anything other than fight it out on the ground. And yes, this soldier most probably was wounded. But I STILL would not want to be captured by Hamas!

  3. EYESOPEN says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 10:30 am

    And here is the IPT version on Steve Emerson’s “Investigative Project on Terrorism” website:

    http://www.investigativeproject.org/4492/hamas-kidnapping-shatters-ceasefire

  4. Islofob IS-1 says

    Aug 1, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    Israel should openly declare War on Gaza. Give 72 hours to to followers of islam to leave the Gaza Strip, or agree to unconditional surrender of hamas to Israel.

    This provides for civilian passage out of Gaza safely, nobody can spin this action as unjust.

    Gaza should then be leveled into a parking lot, the ENTIRE strip, one end to the other, to a state of open space, no hiding areas, no areas where movement of people can happen without being seen. This goal, if carried out, will stop the rockets and terror from below.

    No ceasefire will ever give Israel peace, only a parking lot will.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 10:28 pm

      Agreed.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Aug 1, 2014 at 10:35 pm

      And if anyone at the UN or in the EU kicked up a stink then they could be sweetly reminded of the ethnoreligious cleansing of Jews from the Old City’s ancient Jewish quarter, in 1948, by Jordanian Muslims **under the leadership of British soldier Glubb Pasha**.

      **Every last Jew** was driven out – with little but the clothes they stood up in – from parts of Jerusalem where there had been a continuous Jewish presence since at least AD 1200; *every* synagogue (48 of them) was dynamited; and into the bargain, many established Jewish communities – including the equally ancient Jewish community of Hebron – was similarly driven out, right down to the last person. Under Jordanian occupation, Judea and Samaria and Hebron and the Jewish Quarter of the Jerusalem Old City were rendered – and kept – 100 percent Judenrein; **and the UK by arming and advising the Jordanian army assisted in and approved of this**.

      So if they were to squawk when mass-murderous Jew-hating death cultists were booted out of Jihad Hate Central Gaza, then the British Government and all the rest of the Europeans could be reminded of what they allowed local Arab Muslims to do to the Jews of Judea, Samaria and the Old City of Jerusalem.

      • Charli Main says

        Aug 2, 2014 at 6:16 am

        Muslim arse kissing is alive, well and thriving among the political elites of Britain and the rest of the European Union.
        David Ben Ali Cameron never misses an opportunity to remind us of the ” enormous contribution that Muslims have made to Britain”. Only thing though, he never seems to be able to provide any examples of these “enormous contributions” !!!!!

  5. BC says

    Aug 2, 2014 at 9:45 am

    Nobody in the media pays any attention to the truth when Israel is concerned the the fact that they released thousands of convicted terrorists from Israeli prisons. To get the ‘palestinians’ to the ‘peace talks’ which of course was futile. The ‘palestinians’ are so devious I would not be surprised if that was not the plan all along. Those terrorists are very likely the ones Israel is fighting against now.
    If this war was not happening now it was inevitable. Imagine if they had not discovered those tunnels and many hundreds of Israelis had been killed by the suicide squads and assassins who would have entered Israel via those tunnels.
    I expect that Obama would have been calling for restraint and the UN talking about ‘war crimes’. Only Israel commits ‘war crimes’ of course. Putting your own citizens in harms way as Hamas does is not a war crime is it?

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