Report: Senior Israeli Official Says 1000 Hamas Terrorists Killed in Gaza Operation
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IDF targets Hamas terror tunnel as part of Operation Protective Edge. Photo: Twitter.
A senior Israeli official said on Tuesday that 1,000 Hamas terrorists have been killed by the IDF since the start of “Operation Protective Edge” 22 days ago, Israel’s Channel 2 reported.
“Hamas has suffered a bad blow and still has not come to grips with the gravity of it,” said the source. He added that the number of combatant casualties was higher than the number of civilian casualties.
Furthermore, he said, after the operation in Gaza ends, neither Egypt nor Israel will allow any cement into Gaza and both will act to prevent Hamas from rebuilding everything that was destroyed during the operation, that is, the ability to fire rockets and to build terror tunnels.
Yesterday evening Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the war would continue and that there were “long days ahead”.
However, on Tuesday evening Channel 2 reported that all sides had agreed to a temporary ceasefire, during which discussions would take place in Cairo for a permanent ceasefire. The official also said that the duration of the initial ceasefire has not yet been set, however it was agreed upon that Israel would continue its operations against the tunnels.
However, less than half an hour after the report was released, Channel 2 backtracked, quoting the official as saying that the war would continue at this time.
Ahead of a cabinet meeting that took place at 8pm at the Ministry of Defense, tens of protesters gathered in front of the compound in Tel Aviv, calling for the continuation of operations in Gaza.
According to Channel 2, the IDF too had demanded that a decision be made during the cabinet meeting: “They need to choose: Either Israel expands military activities [in Gaza] or it gets out.”
Earlier Tuesday, forces from the IDF’s Givati brigade killed five Hamas terrorists who emerged from tunnels in the Gaza Strip. There were no injuries to IDF troops. During the operation, a weapons cache, including munitions and Kalashnikov rifles, was discovered by the troops.
On Tuesday morning, soldiers from the Paratroopers brigade blew up tunnels in the south of the Strip.
3:36 pm
You people really scare me. I would love to know what god-given right is worth slaughtering children for. Seriously. And from your comments above, I fully expect someone to come back justifying it.
Any god that could justify killing children, fish in a barrel style (or fish in a UN school perhaps?) does not deserve to be a god. Any god that is worth its salt, in fact, would condemn our world to hell right now just for the people who wish for that. Well done.
8:59 am
“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs… Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home”
“• Mahatma Gandhi
“We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor”
“• Benjamin Netanyahu
“It is indispensable for us to undermine all faith, to tear out of the mind of the “goyim” the very principle of god-head and the spirit, and to put in its place arithmetical calculations and material needs”
“• Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
– Albert Einstein
“…My assumption (which is why I am a fervent proponent of a state, even though it is now linked to partition) is that a Jewish state on only part of the land is not the end but the beginning.
When we acquire one thousand or 10,000 dunams, we feel elated. It does not hurt our feelings that by this acquisition we are not in possession of the whole land. This is because this increase in possession is of consequence not only in itself, but because through it we increase our strength, and every increase in strength helps in the possession of the land as a whole. The establishment of a state, even if only on a portion of the land, is the maximal reinforcement of our strength at the present time and a powerful boost to our historical endeavors to liberate the entire country.
We shall admit into the state all the Jews we can. We firmly believe that we can admit more than two million Jews. We shall build a multi-faceted Jewish economy- agricultural, industrial, and maritime. We shall organize an advanced defense force—a superior army which I have no doubt will be one of the best armies in the world. At that point I am confident that we would not fail in settling in the remaining parts of the country, through agreement and understanding with our Arab neighbors, or through some other means…”
David Ben-Gurion
1:26 pm
PFFFFT WOW good job making up quotes. Love to see the sources for those. Good luck mate.
7:48 am
Why would there be a need for a ceasefire, there only needs to be the complete and utter destruction of Hamas. Why would you let up on them only to fight them another day?
6:07 am
amen to that brother ralph
2:36 am
Israel needs to take complete control of Gaza and annex it as part of Israel after it destroys all of the tunnels, rockets and munitions. Life for the Palestinians under an Israeli Government would be like heaven compared to what they had under Hamas or Abbas. There isn’t any such thing as “Land for Peace”, only “Peace for Peace.” Israel is the only country in the world God gave a “FREE TITLE DEED” to and according to God’s Holy Scriptures there will be HELL to pay for those responsible for dividing His land Israel including the USA. Very soon Israel will be given all the land God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when our Lord Jesus Christ returns. “Keep Looking Up.”
6:55 am
I question if people are out of their minds that support Hamas. It’s unbelievable there are Jews who are sympathetic to Hamas’ tactics to use civilians including women and children as human shields. They have killed fellow Palestinians they think are in opposition to them in Gaza. Terrorists around the world are slaughtering Christians and those on the wrong side of their ideology. Do people research at all? The world was warned about the rounding up and killing of Jews but nonJews were persecuted as well. People didn’t care then and they don’t seem to today. Hitler wanted no one to follow him who had an ability to think independently. Just like the terrorists today. They want world domination and we will all be Islamists — whichever form of it wins. The world is blind. They are ushering in the Mahdi. They don’t want peace. Israel must get control of Gaza as they are a war making machine there. That’s all they care about.
9:12 am
You are speaking the truth and it very much needs to be told.
3:11 pm
All true.
It also seems that the U.S. is already experiencing ‘Hell to pay’, in that God allowed Obama to become its President, a consequence of a nation turning its back on God’s Grace and Providence.
And the day is coming when every piece of real estate on Earth will be a Jewish province, administered from Jerusalem.
7:40 pm
Israel needs to expand military operations until Hamas is finished off. There should not be a ceasefire until Hamas unconditionally surrenders. After “Operation Protective Edge” ends, Israel must be in charge of security in the Gaza Strip.
9:23 pm
Shalom, absolutely.
12:03 am
Marc, I agree with your point of view.
To stop the operations in Gaza, as America would like to see, is a big mistake! And Israel will pay for it in much bigger price- with the lives of her citizens.Israel shouldn’t give up! Israel must clean up Gaza from fanatics who see destruction of Jewish state as their goal. Terrorists-animals made from Gaza a getto for their own people, preventing them to safe places at the time of israeli military operations, thus creating civil casualties at no fault of Israel.