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Israel Defense Forces IDF Uses YouTube, Facebook To Illustrate Hamas Terrorism In Gaza
Jerusalem
---- April 22, 2009 ...... The Israel Defense Forces IDF have
just uploaded and released a video on YouTube describing with
the use of INTEL and computer animation Hamas terrorist tactics
used in Gaza. Hamas' use of human shields during Operation Cast Lead caused many civilian casualties.
Operation
Cast Lead was the result of continued terror attacks by Hamas,
three years after Israel and the IDF left Gaza. It was clear that Hamas was not interested in land, but rather saw the Jews of Israel as "infidels". This was and remains no different than how Iran, Hezbollah and al Qaeda in its Islamic Jihad (holy war) saw the Americans during 9/11, the British during the London underground bombings, those in Spain during the Madrid bombings, and those innocent civilians in Turkey, Egypt, France, Moscow and India who were attacked merely because they were not Muslims. The IDF began its long-awaited attack on Hamas controlled Gaza at 11:30 AM Saturday, and according to initial reports managed to catch Hamas off-guard, after deliberately sending soldiers home on furloughs to create the impression that a military strike was not imminent. The operation is codenamed "Cast Lead" – a phrase taken from a well known Chanukah song which refers to "cast-lead draydels." On the first day of the IDF operation, at least 80 IAF aircraft, including both jets and helicopters, struck pre-selected targets in Gaza, reportedly dropping at least 100 bombs. According to Arab sources in Gaza, the death toll there is 205. Hamas sources predicted that the body count would reach 350. Among the targets was a Hamas ceremony for graduates of a paramilitary course. Gaza terror squads kept firing rockets at Israeli civilians. One of these rockets hit a home in Netivot, killing one civilian -- Beber Vaaknin, 58 -- and wounding six others. Sources in the defense establishment said Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the Israel Defense Forces to prepare for the operation over six months before the Operation. The
IDF Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, recently
approved and authorized the publication of the conclusions of
five investigative teams assigned to investigate events related
to the conduct of IDF soldiers during Operation Cast Lead. These
investigations are supplementary investigations and are in addition
to the investigations that take place following all IDF operations.
Additional issues are also undergoing a process of verification
or investigation at various levels within the IDF and the IDF
aims to complete these investigations by June 2009. Of the attack on the house of a Palestinian doctor, Izzeldeen Abuelaish, which killed three of his daughters, the IDF said soldiers had been targeting "suspicious figures" in the building and had urged the family to leave days earlier. The Israel Defense Forces said its use of white phosphorus, which causes severe burns, was fully legal. IDF investigators said no phosphorus weapons were used in built-up areas, in direct contradiction of groups such as Human Rights Watch, who said they were used unlawfully in densely-populated areas. The IDF said it had probed seven incidents in which many civilians were reportedly harmed. The IDF investigators said that Hamas "systematically used medical facilities, vehicles and uniforms as cover for terrorist operations," and that the group's military and political leaders operated from Gaza's main hospital. Troops maintained "a high professional" level against "an enemy that aimed to terrorise Israeli civilians", the IDF said. The Israel Defense Forces "operated in accordance with moral values and international laws of war", it said in a statement, and made "an enormous effort" to avoid harming uninvolved civilians. The IDF YouTube video illustrates these facts.
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