Hamas working hard, investing tremendous resources to rebuild Gaza
Why bother to rebuild when you can buy rockets instead?
Labels: European foreign aid, Fajr-5 rockets, Grad rocket, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, J-80 rockets, Kassam rockets, M-302 rockets, M-75 rockets, US foreign aid
@SamsClub (a subsidiary of Walmart) donates $2,500 to Florida mosque named after Hamas 'military wing'
It was recently discovered that the popular American wholesaler Sam's Club, a subsidiary of Walmart,
donated $2,500 to a Tampa, Florida mosque named after Hamas' al-Qassam Brigades (Hat Tip:
Ellen S).
A
Florida Family Association supporter happened to look up at the wall
behind the checkout line at the Sam’s Club located at 2021 Brandon
Boulevard in Brandon, Florida. He saw a large photograph of a check
made out from Sam’s Club in the amount of $2,500 payable to the Islamic
Community of Tampa located in the top left prominent position on the
wall. Florida Family Association snapped a cellphone photograph. Photographs indicated that no other non-profit organization received more than $500.
...
- The Islamic Community of Tampa is also known as the Al-Qassam mosque. The Military Wing of the Palestinian Hamas is called the Al-Qassam Brigade. InvestigativeProject.org reports “The
mosque, according to Sami Al-Arian, was named after Izzedin al-Qassam.
Al-Qassam, a Syrian killed fighting the British mandate in 1935, ‘is
the main source of inspiration for the Islamic Jihad movement’
Palestinian scholar Ziad Abu Amr wrote in his book, Islamic
Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza. ‘The Islamic Jihad’s
supporters have elevated him almost to a saintly status.’”
- ...
- Sami Al-Arian was indicted in February 2003 on 17 counts under the Patriot Act for allegedly being the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). In 2006, Al-Arian pleaded guilty
to one count of conspiring to make or receive contributions of funds,
goods or services for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
and was sentenced to 57 months in prison.
- Sami Al-Arian refused to testify before a Federal Grand Jury regarding other Jihad activities. U.S. District Judge James Moody
ruled that Al-Arian must testify. A Virginia District Court held that
Sami Al-Arian had no legal basis to refuse to testify. The court held
him in civil contempt, and imprisoned him on November 16, 2006. Sami
Al-Arian was released from prison on June 27, 2014 after the United
States Department of Justice dropped charges.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: al-Qassam Brigades, CAIR, Florida, Islam, ISNA, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Sami al-Arian, Sharia law
Iz a-Din al-Qassam Brigades claims to have an Israeli drone
Story in Arabic
here (Hat Tip:
MFS - The Other News).
And here's the text:
Turkey News
Announced the Brigades of the Martyr Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, they seized the aircraft reconnaissance drone, belonging to the Israeli army.
The brigades said in a statement via its social networking "Twitter" it captured the plane in the neighborhood of Oz, adding that it will be published in the coming hours video photographer for the event.
Labels: drone, Gaza, Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades
Hamas: 'It's a fake'
Hamas claims that the death certificate above from the Gaza Health Ministry (run by Hamas), which was shown on Israel's Channel 2 last night, and which shows that three people died in Wednesday's IDF bombing on the home in which Deif's family was staying,
is a fake.
A "death certificate" said to be that of Hamas's military leader
Mohammed Deif and currently circulating online has been dismissed as a
forgery by the terrorist group.
At least three people were killed in an Israeli Air Force strike which targeted the
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigade chief, two of whom were identified as his
wife and son. Hamas claimed, however, that the terrorist mastermind
himself escaped with his life - but specifics about his condition
following the attack have been conspicuously absent, leading to
speculation he may in fact have been killed or severely injured.
The "death certificate" shows the names of three people supposedly
killed in the attack. The first name listed is "Mohammed Deif", whose
date of birth is given as August 1965. The date and time of his death
are given as yesterday (August 20), at 6:30 a.m.
A spokesperson for the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Obeida,
countered that Deif is alive and well, saying Israel "was unable to get
to our commander, Mohammed Deif," and declaring that Deif would "lead
the army that will enter to liberate the holy al-Aqsa mosque".
Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri went further in an interview with
Hamas's Al Aqsa TV, saying Deif wasn't even in the building when the IDF
bombed it.
Thousands of people attended the
funeral of Deif's wife and son in Gaza's Jabalya 'refugee camp' on Wednesday.
According to Deif wife's father Vidad Asfura, 27, knew she was living
on borrowed time ever since she married Deif seven years ago.
He said that he had the chance to see Deif only once during this whole time - on the wedding day itself.
Vidad's mother said she is proud of her daughter and willing to
sacrifice more victims for the liberation of the Palestinian people.
It would be shocking if Deif is dead and Hamas didn't give him a huge send-off. But that can wait. The rumors here are that we got him.
There was only one rocket shot into Israel overnight, but the pace has picked up today. More is coming on that.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, IAF, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif, Operation Protective Edge, Palestinian terrorism
Mohammed Deif: 'Our soldiers run toward martyrdom like yours flee from death'
Hamas military chief Mohammed Deif broadcast a message to Israel on Tuesday night on Hamas' al-Aqsa television network. In addition to the message in the title, he said that there would be no cease fire until the 'siege' of Gaza is lifted, and there would be 'no compromise.'
Let's go to the videotape.
Apparently, those 'brave warriors' who are 'running toward martyrdom' do not include the Hamas leadership, which continues to hide in the basement of Gaza City's Shifa Hospital.
Labels: Gaza blockade, Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, martyrs, Mohammed Deif, Operation Protective Edge, Shifa Hospital
Oh my... Al-Qassam Brigades office next to Shifa hospital emergency room
Elder catches a
whopper. The headquarters of Hamas' Izz-e-Dine-al-Qassam Brigades (their 'armed wing') is one room over from the emergency room in Gaza City's Shifa hospital.
After four blocked attempts to leave Gaza without explanation over
weeks, the Palestinian journalist was summoned by the security services
of Hamas on Sunday. "I received a call from a private number. They
summoned me to Al-Shifa Hospital in the Gaza City center, " explains
Radjaa. He carried with him his two phones, his press card and a small
camera.
A few meters from the emergency room where the injured from bombings are constantly flowing, in the outpatient department, he was received in "a small section of the hospital used as administration" by a band of young fighters.
They were all well dressed, which surprised Radjaa, "in civilian
clothing with a gun under one's shirt and some had walkie-talkies " . He
was ordered to empty his pockets, removing his shoes and his belt then
was taken to a hospital room "which served that day as the command
office of three people."
A man begins his interrogation: "Who are you? Who do you call? What are
you doing?" "I was very surprised by the procedure," admits Radjaa,
who showed him his press card in response. Questions came. They asked if
he speaks Hebrew, he has relations with Ramallah. Young Hamas
supporters insistently ask the question: "Are you a correspondent for
Israel?" Radjaa repeated that only works for French media and a chain
of Algerian radio.
It was then that the three men delivered this message: "This is yours to
choose. We are an executive administration. We will carry the message of
Qassams. You have to stay at home and give us your papers. " Stunned
to be covered by the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of
Hamas, Radjaa tried to defend himself and especially to understand why
such a decision was taken against him. In vain. "It is impossible to
communicate with these people," laments the journalist.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Gaza City, Hamas, human shields, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Operation Protective Edge, Shifa Hospital
IDF targets Mohammed Deif
Foreign reports indicate that the IDF took a shot at Hamas' Izz-a-Din-al-Qassam commander
Mohammed Deif on Tuesday night. It was not the first time. Deif is apparently in hiding with the Hamas leadership, but two people in his house were killed and the house was likely destroyed.
This is from the first link.
Deif is considered the official who determines the agenda of the Izz
ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and is regarded as the “brain” behind Hamas.
He is likely hiding underground somewhere inside Gaza, fearing the IDF will try to eliminate him.
Deif started out as a student of Yahya Ayyash, who was nicknamed “the
Engineer” and who was the chief bombmaker of Hamas in the late 1990s,
when the organization started carrying out suicide bombing attacks
within Israel. Ayyash was eliminated by Israel in 1996.
Following Ayyash’s elimination, Deif carried out numerous murderous
terror attacks in Israel, including two suicide bombing attacks on buses
in Jerusalem and kidnapping attempts within Israel.
Israel tried to kill Mohammed Deif several times, without success.
One time, he lost an eye and likely his hand as well. In another attempt
he was seriously wounded, his hands and legs were amputated and he has
been confined to a wheelchair ever since.
Ayyash is the guy who answered his cell phone and had it blow his head off :-)
You can bet that when we get Deif, we will get the same reactions we got when the IDF eliminated Sheikh Ahmad Yassin: That we're going after poor old men in wheelchairs. Right....
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Mohammed Deif, Operation Protective Edge, Yihye Ayyash
Boo. Hoo. 'Palestinian' terrorist's grave defaced
In what the police are immediately assuming is a 'price tag' attack by right wing Israelis, the grave of Muslim preacher
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam, the inspiration for the Hamas terror brigade by the same name, was defaced in Haifa overnight Thursday night according to a report on Israel's Channel 10 news.
The Muslim "Al Qassam" cemetery in Haifa joins the list of targets nationwide, as Israeli authorities struggle to prevent suspected far-right assailants from defiling more non-Jewish property.
One of the graves was spray-painted with the words "Tag mehir (‘price tag’) Tzipi Livni," while another read "Thanks for Memorial Day" along with the name of US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Al-Qassam,
whose exploits during the Palestinian struggle for independence against
the British and the Zionists inspired generations of Palestinians, is
the namesake of the Hamas military wing. The name conjures up traumatic
experiences for Israelis
who for over the past decade have been living under the threat of
incessant Qassam rocket fire from Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Meanwhile, a 19-year old Afula woman was murdered on Thursday in Migdal HaEmek,
possibly by terrorists, as she talked on the phone with her cousin.
"We started to worry. At 2 p.m. we realized something happened," the father told Arutz Sheva,
recalling the events of how his daughter went missing after leaving for
a job interview. "We contacted the police and I gave a description (of
Shelly), and then they told us to come to the station, and I realized
something had happened."
Regarding the motivation behind his daughter's murder, he said "I
believe it was nationalistic, and still can't digest (her murder). She
was a very responsible girl."
"They shouldn't rest until they find her phone, maybe there are
fingerprints on it," added the bereaved father, noting that she had been
in the middle of a phone call with her cousin apparently at the time of
the murder.
While on the phone, Shelly said "there is someone scary here,
I'm being strangled!" Shelly appeared to be referring to a woman
[extrapolated from Hebrew grammar - ed.].
"There's no security in this country," said Shelly's father. "My
message to parents is not to send your children alone, we don't digest
the fact that in the state of Israel you go to your workplace and don't
come back. They just butchered my girl."
The funeral of Shelly Dadon will take place on Saturday after Shabbat, at 10:30 p.m. in Afula's cemetery.
The murderer apparently fled to a nearby Arab village. But the government seems to be much more interested in the 'price tags' than in Shelly Dadon.
Shelly's cousin Alon noted there has been a remarkable lack of condemnation of the attack from Israel's government.
"I want every MK to know what is going on here," he said. "If this
had been a 'price tag' graffiti incident, the whole State would have
been up in arms. But when a young girl is murdered on her way to a job
interview, they are all silent."
"We demand that they bring [the killer] to justice," he added.
By contrast, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and others were swift to condemn an
alleged act of "price tag" vandalism earlier this week, especially in
light of a damning report from the US State Department over the "Jewish
terrorism."
Netanyahu called the latest attack "outrageous," vowing, "we are using ISA (Shin Bet) resources for this purpose.”
Unfortunately, the Israeli government has applied terrorist rhetoric to 'price tag' attacks. It is grossly out of place.
Labels: Afula, Haifa, Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Migdal HaEmek, Palestinian terrorism, price tag attacks
As bad as it was, it could have been a lot worse
As bad as Thursday's 'Palestinian'
terror attack on a school bus in the Gaza envelope was,
it could have ended a lot worse.
Tom was among several dozen children lucky enough to be dropped off before an anti-tank missile hit their yellow school bus, which was by then all but empty save for the driver and a 16-year-old boy.
The two victims were flown by helicopter to Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba for treatment.
Doron Katz told The Jerusalem Post she realizes the fate of her child hung on such small details as how long the bus stood in traffic, or the amount of time it took the children to board.
“If the trip had taken longer, if they had stopped along the way, it could have all ended differently; she could have died,” Doron- Katz said.
At the time of the attack, Doron- Katz was in her car with two of her children, ages 10 and 11, on her way home from a doctor’s appointment in Ashkelon. Her one-year-old was in the kibbutz nursery.
Tom called her from the kibbutz to say that she had heard a large explosion that scared her.
Neither of them immediately understood that the target was the bus that Tom had just been on.
“Don’t worry, we will be home any moment,” Doron-Katz told her daughter.
But as Doron-Katz got close to the kibbutz, soldiers stopped her car and explained that the area around her home was now a closed military zone.
She stood there with other residents, whose cars formed a line on the road, and journalists who wanted to get to the scene.
Speaking with the waiting crowd, she pieced together the events of the afternoon.
Wanting to be with Tom and her baby, she called a friend who lived nearby and asked her to come to the intersection to pick up her 10- and 11-year-olds. Then she moved her car to the side of the road and parked.
Doron-Katz said she then hitched a ride to the kibbutz on a military jeep.
Do we leave our children's security to fate - God forbid? To the amount of time a bus stands in traffic and to the amount of time it takes children to board and disembark from a bus?
How many of you remember the 'Palestinian' terror attack on a school bus near
Kfar Darom in 2000? That bus was armored (as the bus in Thursday's incident was supposed to have been), but an armored bus doesn't stand up to anti-tank missiles or mortar fire. In that attack, in which a school bus was hit with a 122mm mortar shell, two people were murdered and four adults - including three from one family - were seriously wounded. The three children from the Cohen family in Kfar Darom all lost limbs in that incident. Those responsible for that attack - Mohamed Dahlan and his deputy Rashid Abu Shbak - still roam free today. Because Dahlan is someone the US considers '
reliable' Israel has never targeted him for assassination, despite the fact that he is also responsible for the murder of
three American consular officers in 2003. Is it any wonder that other 'Palestinians' are willing to try the same thing again?
The IDF struck back on Thursday night, which left Hamas
crying for a cease fire. But Hamas has only itself to blame: One of its terror groups took responsibility for Thursday's attack.
Earlier Thursday, the Hamas military wing, the Izzadin Kassam Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing a Kornet anti-tank missile at a children's schoolbus near Kibbutz Saad in the Sha'ar Hanegev regional council, which left a 16-year-old in critical condition and the driver in light condition.
The attack was "the first response to the continuing crimes of the occupation," a Hamas statement said.
In response to the attack, the IDF spokesperson said that the air force had struck nine targets in the Gaza Strip and that artillery forces had struck the area from where the anti-tank missile was fired.
Five Palestinians were killed and 33 injured in the strikes, Palestinian medical sources reported.
Speaking at the IDF's Southern Command earlier Thursday night, Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke about the school bus attack and called it a "very serious event that hit deep into Israeli territory from deep within the Gaza Strip. That is something that we cannot accept," he added.
Commenting on IDF, IAF and artillery strikes on Gaza, the defense minister said: "The actions being taken right now are a response to [the attack] and they will continue as long as necessary in order to make clear that things like this cannot continue."
The responses by the IDF are both purposeful and effective, Barak said, adding that, "We see Hamas as responsible for everything originating in Gaza, and we expect that Hamas will understand what is allowed, and of course, what is forbidden."
When is the next Hamas
police academy graduation? That would present a couple of hundred good targets.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Palestinian terrorism
'Palestinian Authority' arrests Hamas suicide bombers
The 'Palestinian Authority arrested several members of Hamas' Izzadin Kassam Brigades who were planning a
suicide bombing in Jerusalem according to the Maan ('Palestinian') news agency.
The operatives had planned to undermine political stability and Fatah control in the West Bank, in addition to carrying out an assassination plot on a West Bank mayor.
The Palestinian officials who informed Ma'an of the arrests claimed the Hamas cell was based in Nablus with a support network stretching throughout the northern part of the West Bank. They said that the PA forces had raided the group's headquarters in Nablus, confiscating weapons and cash belonging to the men.
PA officials alleged that the terror cell members had also planned to kidnap Israeli West Bank residents and assassinate the Palestinian governor of the West Bank city of Nablus
Ma'an reported that a booby-trapped car intended to be used in a suicide bombing was also found in the raid.
See the revolving door....
Labels: Hamas, Izzadin Kassam Brigades, Nablus, Palestinian Authority, suicide bombers
