As Israel’s ground operation in terrorist-infested Gaza enters its eighth week, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue to uncover mounting evidence on how the jihadist group Hamas puts civilians, and particularly children, in harm’s way.
During an operation in northern Gaza, the IDF soldiers found Hamas combat uniforms for children and a large tunnel shaft opening inside a school. “The brigade found many weapons and means of warfare throughout the operation, including IDF vests and kit bags, Hamas uniforms for adults and children, as well as intelligence documents,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported December 22. “Many tunnel shafts were also found, the largest was in a school from which terrorists used to attack the Golani brigade just days before.”
This is not the first gruesome discovery of its kind. Earlier this month, the Israeli military found a sniper rifle and ammunition stuffed inside a teddy bear in a Gaza school. “As part of the 551st Brigade’s operations across the Gaza Strip, the teddy bear packed with weaponry was discovered during a raid of a school used by Hamas for terror purposes. In addition, more weaponry hidden in classrooms was found in UNRWA bags in an adjacent school,” the Jerusalem Post reported on December 9.
While Hamas treats Gaza schools as storage facilities for its weapons stockpile, it uses schools and mosques as recruiting ground for future terrorists. Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), both Iran-funded terrorist groups, have been holding summer camps for years which train Gaza children in jihad ideology and terrorist tactics.
“IDF finds Hamas children’s uniforms in Beit Hanoun,” Israel National News, December 22, 2023:
The combat team of the IDF’s 5th Brigade conducted operational activity in the Kasbah complex in Beit Hanoun last week. The soldiers of the combat team – together with aerial fire support, observation posts and combat engineering forces – cleared the area of the Kasbah, eliminated terrorists, struck dozens of terrorist targets and infrastructure.
Among other things, the forces collected many weapons including Kalashnikov type weapons, grenades, cartridges and ammunition boxes, mortar bombs and vests – including IDF vests. In addition, the forces located uniforms of the Hamas terrorist organization, including children’s uniforms, Hamas documents and telephones, and an IDF kitbag. The forces located several tunnel shafts in the homes of Hamas operatives, the largest of which was in a school. From these tunnels terrorists attacked the forces the day before the brigade’s operation.
Troybeam says
The more the Israel’s IDF find the more the world should worry. Children of Gaza and their parents are not victims of Hamas, THEY ARE HAMAS.
When one or two citizens speak out against Hamas and state they are victims do not believe it, these families are PAID by Hamas if a family member is killed as a Hamas member. Rewards.
Do not believe there is a single peaceful Muslim simply because when Muslims gather they cease to be peaceful & turn into a horde of violence against humanity.
Transmaster says
When you think about who was the largest employer in Gaza, Hamas. So is you want money, food and health care Hamas is the only game in town. Killing jews is a fringe benefit. Up till now a benefit that had no down side. Now the IDF is in your backyard looking to kill you. I hope the IDF kills all of you.
Kepha says
In my English Language Development classes (English for Speakers of Other Languages is now passe), I had some boys from Sierra Leone who had been child soldiers (Krio is perhaps only 50% mutual intelligibility with American English).
I read Sun Shuyun’s book on Mao’s Long March, which was built around interviews with some of the last survivors. I did the math, and realized that those old folks must have been child soldiers as well when they participated in one of the Left’s grand and glorious revolutionary episodes. However, the most interesting thing was that decades after Mao’s victory, some of those old folks identified with the Tibetan or Hui tribes which had captured and essentially enslaved them. That speaks volumes about what the Left actually does.
So, maybe, when Israel captures the youngest Hamas fighters, it should take a leaf from the Ngolog Tibetans and Ma clique Hui Muslims who captured some of the young Long Marchers back in 1935?