IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said Tuesday that Palestinian terror groups had attempted to kidnap soldiers during mass protests on the Gaza border which he said were a front for terrorist activity.
This should come as no surprise, as the Palestinian Authority makes martyrs out of mujahideen who kill Israeli civilians, including children. Jihad summer camps operate for Palestinian children, and school curricula teach hate and violence against Jews. All the while, Palestinians are made out to be the victims, as part of a calculated and determined effort to obliterate Israel since 1948.
Anything goes in the jihad war against Israel.
In early April, when Gaza protesters engulfed their border with smoke and fumes from burning tires, Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan who came to see the protests, warned:
One thing people don’t appreciate if they haven’t seen it is that this is not a peaceful demonstration… Despite Hamas’s claims, he said that seeing the clashes close up revealed the reality. “This is a deliberate and specific intent by terrorist organizations to penetrate the state of Israel and kill civilians and the IDF has no option except to use lethal force to stop such a dangerous threat.
“Palestinian terror groups trying to kidnap soldiers on Gaza border — IDF chief”, by Sue Surkes & Jacob Magid, Times of Israel, May 1, 2018:
IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot said Tuesday that Palestinian terror groups had attempted to kidnap soldiers during mass protests on the Gaza border which he said were a front for terrorist activity.
At a ceremony marking the installation of a military top liaison to the Palestinians, Eisenkot said, “In recent weeks, we’ve once again seen the complexity of the situation, when our forces found themselves facing mass protests that served as cover for terrorist actions, attacks on soldiers, attempts at kidnapping, attacks on military posts, and attempts to infiltrate [Israeli] towns.”
Palestinians in Gaza have staged violent demonstrations at the enclave’s border with Israel over five consecutive Fridays.
Last Friday, four people were killed and over 300 hurt, bringing the toll in the border clashes since March 30 to 44 Palestinian dead and over 1,500 injured by live fire.
These figures are provided by the Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run health ministry and have not been independently verified.
The protests, which are backed and encouraged by Hamas, the terror group that rules Gaza, were originally dubbed by their Palestinian organizers as nonviolent, but Hamas, which seeks to destroy Israel, publicly supported the demonstrations and declared that their ultimate goal was to erase the border and liberate Palestine.
Rioters have burned tires, hurled firebombs and rocks at Israeli troops, flown flaming kites over the border, and repeatedly attempted to sabotage the security fence…..
dsinc says
These savages get paid $500 if they get wounded by Israeli fire and their families get $3000 if they get killed.
balam says
These Muslim Arabs are ether completely brain washed or brainless .Why can’t they love life and live in peace. If the Muslims prefer death over life then why do they like to kill others rather than commit suicide and leave the rest of us alone .They follow a SCKENING IDEOLOY which is not a blessing but curse for humanity .Their end seems to be not too far .I pray for ISRAEL and its blessed people who are surrounded by the WOLVES OF ALLAH called MUSLIMS.
libertyORdeath says
Muslims prefer death in the cause of Islam to life, not simply death itself. Every move a faithful Muslim makes is to further the goal of creating a world caliphate and ummah. Every single muslim who believes in the Quran is told that every human is a Muslim whether they are aware or not, therefore any action taken to make the kuffar realise this is sanctioned by Allah.
We have a severe lack of understanding in the west when it comes to islam and we are paying a price for this ignorance every single day.
Salah says
American ambassador: Abbas speech, A NEW LOW.
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/US-Ambassador-to-Israel-decries-Abbas-speech-as-a-new-low-553271
Ray Jarman says
As Khaled Abu Toameh on May 2, 2018 explained: “The Rafah border crossing is the Gaza Strip’s single opening to Egypt and the rest of the Arab world. That border crossing is where the real suffering of the Palestinians has been taking place.
The Gaza Strip could be a livable environment if the Egyptians opened the Rafah terminal to allow the world to come and help the Palestinians living there.”
If these Arabs were demonstrating in good faith, why not protest the Egyptians’ closure of the Rafah border crossing? The answer is simple; it is a protest against what they refer as “Nakba Day” (“The Day of Catastrophe”) in which the wonderful state of Israel was re-established in 1948 after the last British soldier boarded their homeward bound ship and the Israelis defeated an attempt by the Arabs to slaughter Jews in their own bedrooms. It is a pure and simple attempt to invade and destroy the State of Israel and every single Jewish person living there.
gravenimage says
IDF chief: Palestinian jihadists trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers on Gaza border
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The repulsive “Palestinians” have done this before–it should surprise no one. Remember Gilad Schalit?
And all of this is mainstream Islam–the “Prophet” regularly kidnapped victims and either held them for ransom, demanded uneven prisoner exchanges, or just murdered them outright. This is, in fact, in the Qur’an itself.
libertyORdeath says
I really wish that Israel would have been allowed to continue the defensive war started by Egypt, Syria and Jordan. We could possibly live in a more stable world if Israel’s allies would have recognized in the 60’s and 70’s that the anti-Israel fighting and rhetoric would never cease regardless of the attempts at peace by Israel. We now have over 50 years of experience to suggest that the only thing that will stop the attacks on Israel is the complete collapse of the country itself.
The West’s dependence on middle eastern oil has allowed both the Sunni and Shia Muslims to gain significant military hardware and technology that is now being used against Israel and it’s allies. I hope that the arming of countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran with military equipment they honestly have no reason to possess doesn’t blow up in our faces, although I wouldn’t bet on it.
Ren says
Palestinian jihadists trying to kidnap Israeli soldiers? Just shoot them.
Sam says
Can we stop saying “Palestinian” when we are referring to Arabs?