Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

These observers can be women, boys, and men of all ages, who report on the location and extent of the IDF forces, and any unusual activity in the area, which can be useful to Hamas's plans. According to army officers, "some of the observers will stand on the roofs of houses or under the cover of buildings without weapons, only with a walkie-talkie or a telephone, and some of them will probably communicate what is happening with shouts or other signs. Some women will also cross the street with a baby carriage or children in order not to arouse suspicion."

But the cynical and cruel step, according to army officers, is the use of children who are sent to battle zones and places occupied by the IDF, where there is no reason for civilians, especially children, to be.

"You know that the child arrived at Tzafat, you know that he is part of a larger system, but in the end he is a child and we as commanders are in a dilemma, to shoot or to carry out a pursuit while risking our fighters. So we do not shoot at children under any circumstances, but Hamas certainly puts us in a very complex dilemma. We feel that we are getting closer to the goal. In the end it will happen. We will crack what is needed. We need a lot of patience. Every day that passes we are more than enough," explained one of the officers who left the Khan Yunis area.


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[ Terrorists for life ]

Part 1

While many question what will happen and who will rule the Gaza Strip after Israel has destroyed Hamas’ terror infrastructure, the PA’s Fatah leaders are confident that the PA /Fatah will unite with Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations and together will rule Gaza.

Some PA and Fatah leaders have been adamant about joining forces with theterror organizations. Jibril Rajoub, a top PA official and Fatah Central Committee Secretary, speaking in the name of Mahmoud Abbas, the PA leadership, and the PLO Executive Committee, has repeatedly stressed the PA’s goal of uniting with Hamas and Islamic Jihad – which he whitewashes as “political Islam” - against Israel:



Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub calls for unity:

We say to our brothers in Hamas: We stand before a great turning point… The time has come for us [Fatah and Hamas] to reach a compromise. I call on them, on behalf of the Palestinian [PA] leadership, [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas, and the PLO Executive Committee – we say to them [Hamas]:Come build a political rapprochementregarding the international project, and build rapprochement regarding the struggle around a strategic option that could reap these achievements, which include an international turning point in world opinion about us and about our cause… We say to our brothers in Hamas and the Islamic Jihad Movement – the ball is in your court”
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page,
Dec. 17, 2023]​
Rajoub: PA won’t rule Gaza without Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations.



Jibril Rajoub: Political Islam (i.e., Hamas) has been part of our political and social fabric and the fabric of our struggle, and it still is, and it will remain, period. We will not go to [govern] the Gaza Strip without national agreement that will include political Islam, whether it is our brothers in Hamas or our brothers in [Islamic] Jihad. This is impossible.”
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page,
Dec. 14, 2023]​
Rajoub: Hamas is “part of the fabric of our struggle”

Jibril Rajoub: “We view political Islam, and foremost among it the Hamas Movement, as part of the fabric of our struggle and our political and social fabric. We must preserve our achievements, we are a liberation project, and we are all potential Martyrs.
[Al-Anba, Kuwaiti news website, Nov. 26, 2023]​


 
Part 2

Rajoub: Oct. 7 massacre was a “battle of heroism”

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Jibril Rajoub: We hope that our brothers in Hamas will do a political rapprochement, a rapprochement regarding the struggle, and an organizational rapprochement, so that we will reach a compromiseWhat happened on Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ massacre) was a great earthquake and returned the Palestinian cause to the global agenda… Fatah and [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas – despite all the pressures, and perhaps a number of things happened that didn’t have to happen – we have not condemned and not denounced [Hamas’ attack], and we have also not closed the door of unity on our brothers in political Islam.We say to them: We view you as part of the social fabric, the fabric of the struggle, and the Palestinian political and national fabric.
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page,
Dec. 16, 2023]​
“Rajoub said that ‘the Al-Aqsa Flood’ operation (i.e., Hamas' name for its massacre and terror war against Israel) and the Palestinian resistance’s attack on Oct. 7 [2023], which Hamas’ military wing, the Martyr Izz A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, launched against the occupation’s settlements (sic., towns in sovereign Israel), is ‘an additional battle of heroism and a war of defense in the 75-year history of the Palestinian resistance.’ He added that the Palestinians need to make collective decisions through joint support for the resistance (i.e., terror).’”
[Wattan, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 22, 2023]​
Rajoub stresses terror organizations will unite under the PLO/PA

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: “The PLO [is] the sole legitimate representative of the [Palestinian] people. This is an achievement that we will not relinquish. Of course, the PLO needs reorganization so that it will become the umbrella organization of all the Palestinians and of all the national action factions, including the [factions of] political Islam… The PA… also needs a reexamination, so that it will be a national unity government that will be responsible for all the Palestinians in all the Palestinian territories.”
[Ma’an, independent Palestinian news agency, Dec. 14, 2023]​
This was echoed by Fatah official Muhammad Al-Hourani:

Fatah Revolutionary Council member Muhammad Al-Hourani: “We believe Hamas that it is taking action for the freedom of the land. Therefore we, Hamas, and all the Palestinian factions must think deeply and seriously about realizing the unity of the Palestinian arena under the flag of the PLO.
[Al-Arabiya TV (Saudi Arabia), YouTube channel, Dec. 27, 2023]​
Another top PA official who has called for unity with Hamas is PA leader Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash. Throughout the war, PMW has exposed Al-Habbash’s emphasis on the PA’s support for Hamas and its massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, and its continued war against Israel – a support he has garnished with antisemitic teachings about Jews.





 
Part 3

Al-Habbash: PA and Fatah’s “hands are extended, hearts are open” to Hamas to unite:

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash:

“The occupation (i.e., Israel) is the cause of every problem… Now more than ever, we need to end the matter of the internal [Fatah-Hamas] conflict. Our hands are extended, our hearts are open, and our chests are open to every Palestinian voice that wants to put the internal Palestinian home in order, because this is necessary to strengthen our position.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Dec. 24, 2023] ​
Mahmoud Al-Habbash: “More than ever we must put our internal home in order. The time has come for everyone to once and for all announce the end of the [Fatah-Hamas] rift to unite the Palestinian internal front against this [Israeli] aggression (i.e., the 2023 Gaza war; see note below) that is directed against all the Palestinians.”
[PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Advisor on Religious Affairs and Islamic Relations Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Facebook page, Dec. 12, 2023] ​
PLO Executive Committee Secretary Hussein Al-Sheikh repeated Abbas’ support for Hamas, stressing Abbas defended Hamas at the UN by claiming it is “not a terror organization”:

“Hamas is not a terror movement,” PLO official cites PA Chairman Abbas’ defense of Hamas

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Al-Jazeera TV interviewer: “A poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) showed Palestinian support for the Resistance (i.e., Hamas) and a regression in the popularity of the PA, and President Abbas in particular. How do you view this, considering that you have stated that Hamas is not a role model?” …

PLO Executive Committee Secretary Hussein Al-Sheikh: “I didn’t say that Hamas is not a role model… When the world spoke and demanded that Hamas be defined as a terror movement – who set out against the world? Was it not Mahmoud Abbas, who stood at the UN podium and said: ‘No, Hamas is not a terror movement’! The real terror is the occupation (i.e., Israel). The real terror is the settlement enterprise.”
[Former Head of Fatah Commission of Information and Culture’s Information Office Munir Al-Jaghoub, X (Twitter) account, Dec. 19, 2023]​
Right from the beginning of the war, immediately after Hamas’ massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, PMW has reported on PA officials around the world expressing support for the Oct 7 terror attack. Another example is PLO Ambassador to South Africa Hanan Jarrar:

PLO Ambassador to South Africa Hanan Jarrar (in English):As Palestinians we are one. Hamas, Fatah, [Islamic] Jihad, other political parties, either in the Left or the Right - we are one, we are Palestinians, and this is democracy… So why when it comes to Palestine we have to denounce one of our political factions (i.e., Hamas), that according to international law they are doing the right thing? International law says that when any country is under occupation, they have all the right to use all the measures, instruments available to defend themselves... The Palestinian leadership has been subjected to numerous and huge pressure to denounce what's going on right now, and we are not denouncing it and we will never ever denounce a major component of our people defending the interest of the Palestinian people.”
[Hilaal TV (South Africa), YouTube channel, Oct. 11, 2023]​




 
Part 4

Top PLO official Rawhi Fattouh emphasized PA Chairman Abbas’ instructions of continued financial support to Hamas-ruled Gaza, promising to prioritize “sending” money there. Rawhi Fattouh made this statement in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying the PA cannot take control of the Gaza Strip following the 2023 Gaza war, given that the PA pays salaries to terrorists and refuses to condemn Hamas’ massacre in Israel on Oct. 7.

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Palestinian National Council Chairman Rawhi Fattouh: “As [PA President] Mahmoud Abbas noted at a conference and also before the Palestinian [PA] leadership, if we are left with one penny we will send it to the Gaza Strip. Neither [Israeli Prime Minister] Netanyahu nor anyone else will stop us from spending money on our residents and our people in the Gaza Strip…Therefore, we Palestinians, our position is unified and united, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem are one body.”
[Official PA TV, Topic of the Day, Nov. 12, 2023]​
Continued financial support for Hamas-ruled Gaza has also been stressed by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh:

PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh: “We did not relinquish the Gaza Strip, and we will not relinquish the Gaza Strip, because they are our people… We are giving the Gaza Strip $1.7 billion from the Palestinian [PA] budget per year, which we spend on the Gaza Strip.”
[Al-Araby TV (Qatar-based), YouTube channel, Dec. 10, 2023]​
Similarly, senior PLO/Fatah official Azzam Al-Ahmad stated he had “received instructions from Abbas to make contact with Hamas”:

“Senior PLO official Azzam Al-Ahmad informed [Saudi state-owned] Al-Arabiya TV that he received instructions from Palestinian [PA] President Mahmoud Abbas to make contact with Hamas.
Al-Ahmad… made contact with [Hamas Political Bureau member] Musa Abu Marzouq and [Hamas Political Bureau Chairman] Ismail Haniyeh, and expressed hope of holding an additional conversation with Haniyeh…
He added that the PLO did not set conditions for entering an agreement with the other Palestinian sides… He also noted that all the factions need to be under the PLO framework.”
[Al-Arabiya TV website (Saudi Arabia), Dec. 15, 2023]​
Others have also shown their connection to terror organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad – their “brothers” – and called for unity, stating that there are “no disagreements between Hamas and Fatah”:

Fatah Jenin Branch Secretary Ata Abu Rmeileh: “In the name of all the national and Islamic forces we announce a general strike in all aspects of life, in all of Palestine. Here are the brothers from the Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Hamas.
[Fatah Movement – Bethlehem Branch, Telegram channel, Oct. 31, 2023]​
Fatah Spokesman Jamal Nazzal: “Currently there are no disagreements between Hamas and Fatah. We now agree that a ceasefire is the joint goal (i.e., in the 2023 Gaza war; see note below)… From the moment that a ceasefire will be achieved, we must outline a joint political plan and a joint path that will unite us, and through which we will draw conclusions from the recent past. This is the goal that we will put on the table the moment the ceasefire is achieved.”
[Al-Jazeera TV, YouTube channel, Dec. 24, 2023]​



 
Part 5

Fatah official calls for Fatah-Hamas unity “because after the Gaza Strip [the Israelis] will move on to the West Bank”

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Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki:
“What is needed now after Oct. 7 [2023] (i.e., Hamas’ invasion and massacre of Israel) is to reexamine all the policies and to have a new strategy whose basis is Palestinian unity. I think the door has been opened so that we will all be united,because after the Gaza Strip they [the Israelis] will move on to the West Bank.”
[Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki, Facebook page, Nov. 17, 2023]​
Palestinian civilians in the West Bank have also expressed their support for Hamas and their desire for Hamas rule:

West Bankers praise Hamas, call for terror: “Actions… that will restore the glory to the religion… Death for Allah”

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The video shows celebrations in Nablus for female prisoners released in a prisoner exchange deal starting on Nov. 24, 2023, between Israel and Hamas during the 2023 Gaza war, in which terrorist prisoners were released in exchange for Israeli hostages. The crowd is seen waving green Hamas flags.

Posted text: “Calls of support for the Resistance (i.e., Hamas) at the reception in Nablus for the released female prisoners in the exchange deal.”
Crowd: “The people wants the [Izz A-Din] Al-Qassam Brigades (i.e., Hamas’ military wing), the people wants the Al-Qassam Brigades… Allahu Akbar (i.e., “Allah is greatest”)… We have risen up for Allah… We want actions… that will restore the glory to the religion… Death for Allah… Your men will be blessed, O Hamas… [Yahya] Al-Sinwar (i.e., Hamas terror leader) upheld his promise… Your constitution is the Quran… Place sword on sword, we are the people of Muhammad Deif (i.e., Hamas terror leader).”
[“Nablus Post,” Telegram channel, Nov. 25, 2023]​
PMW has exposed similar calls in support for Hamas by students in the West Bank.


The following are longer excerpts of some of the statements cited above:


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When you have a rat infestation in your neighborhood it's a good idea to exterminate them.

"The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand," said CPJ's Sherif Mansour.

At least 68 journalists had been killed since the latest iteration of the war began as of mid-December.

Israel practices ethnic cleansing, and is not too OK with journalists like MSB is not ok, and the Pales seem pretty committed to continuing their hopeless campaign to destroy a Jewish state. And I noticed that YOU too, use dehumanizing hate speech calling humans "rats" to attack an entire group of people, which is EXACTLY WHAT ISRAEL'S EDUCATION TEACHES, AS DOES HAMAS AND FATAH

It's no wonder younger americans view Israel as a malign entity. It is one. So's hamas, and it seems to me that most Pales in gaza are ok with that.
 
"The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand," said CPJ's Sherif Mansour.

At least 68 journalists had been killed since the latest iteration of the war began as of mid-December.

Israel practices ethnic cleansing, and is not too OK with journalists like MSB is not ok, and the Pales seem pretty committed to continuing their hopeless campaign to destroy a Jewish state. And I noticed that YOU too, use dehumanizing hate speech calling humans "rats" to attack an entire group of people, which is EXACTLY WHAT ISRAEL'S EDUCATION TEACHES, AS DOES HAMAS AND FATAH

It's no wonder younger americans view Israel as a malign entity. It is one. So's hamas, and it seems to me that most Pales in gaza are ok with that.
1) There is no way to verify the number of actual Press people in Gaza since Hamas is the one giving those numbers AND too many of those Press people are members of Hamas, helping Hamas and fighting with Hamas against the IDF.

2) Israel asked Palestinian CIVILIANS to move to the south of Gaza as it wanted to fight only Hamasand Islamic Jihad and destroy their infrastructure in Gaza City and the northern part of Gaza.

Is is NOT ethnic cleansing to want to save human lives during a war started by Hamas.

3) When Muslims call Jews descendants of Apes, monkeys and Pigs, since Islam's foundation, it is only normal, YES normal, that Jews and others may want to call these terrorists in Gaza some names for what they have done, which was cowardly. So, in essence, "Rats" is what all of those barbarian cowards are. NOT the ones who are against what Hamas did on 10/7 and have also been oppressed by Hamas since 2007.

4) Rats is NOT taught in Israeli schools, but Jews being descendants of Apes, monkeys and pigs who must be killed at every chance IS taught in Gaza and PA schools by UNWRA.

5) Young people all over the world have not had history lessons about what has happened in the past 100 years, they go to sources on Twitter, Tim Tok and others which only give revised history of the world.
Many, not all, young people and older ones, accept what they hear from those sources and do not question it. You seem to be one of those many who do not only not know history but do not care, and spreads whatever they say as true.

6) Israel is NOT a malign entity. Israel is the LEGAL, rightful sovereign consequence of the Mandates after WWI, the other 3 being Lebanon, Syria and Iraq.
Jordan not rightfully was GIVEN land out of the Mandate for Palestine because the British were antisemitic and had no intention of honoring that Mandate because it was for JEWS. But Jordan has the land and Israel honors that.

Israel is on its OWN Ancient Jewish Homeland, not on anyone else's and has every right to be sovereign on it and has not "stolen" any "Palestinian" land, since Palestinians as a people or nationality did not exist before 1964 when Arafat devised that idea with the KGB in Moscow.

The Ottoman Turks had that region for 500 years, and the Crusaders before them as well, and not once these Arab Muslims create any groups to protest or fight them off to allegedly liberate "their land. For the simple reason that ALL Arabs are invaders into the Jewish homeland during the 7th century and have been migrating into it since then.

The reason Muslims started to riot against Jews in 1920, and not against the Hashemite Jordanians in 1925 or 1948, is because it is JEWS. Some Muslims have decided that Jews cannot be sovereign over any land once conquered by other Muslims.
That is it in a nutshell.

7) Israel is NOT an Apartheid country. All have freedom of religion, of being in Government, any careers, and even serve in the Military, as they are doing right now to defend THEIR country, Israel.
Many Muslim, Bedouin and Christians were killed by Hamas and their supporters on 10/7.


8) Prove me wrong on anything I posted above.
 
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"The Israeli army has killed more journalists in 10 weeks than any other army or entity has in any single year. And with every journalist killed, the war becomes harder to document and to understand," said CPJ's Sherif Mansour.

At least 68 journalists had been killed since the latest iteration of the war began as of mid-December.

Israel practices ethnic cleansing, and is not too OK with journalists like MSB is not ok, and the Pales seem pretty committed to continuing their hopeless campaign to destroy a Jewish state. And I noticed that YOU too, use dehumanizing hate speech calling humans "rats" to attack an entire group of people, which is EXACTLY WHAT ISRAEL'S EDUCATION TEACHES, AS DOES HAMAS AND FATAH

It's no wonder younger americans view Israel as a malign entity. It is one. So's hamas, and it seems to me that most Pales in gaza are ok with that.
Read a history book. You're gonna learn about humans during war. It's always very ugly.
 
As we've shown many times before, Hamas' media strategy is based on its ability to lie with impunity, since there are no alternative sources of information in Gaza that is willing to contradict it.

And because the media has either reported Hamas claims with a straight face, or ignored the ones that are clearly ludicrous such as their claims of major military victories, Hamas has no disincentive from making up bigger and bigger lies.

Here's the latest claim as reported by Turkey's TRTWorld:


The Israeli army has looted approximately $25 million in money and artefacts from Gaza since October 7.

The Gaza Media Office said on Saturday it received dozens of testimonies by residents of Gaza reporting the theft of money, gold, and artefacts "estimated at 90 million shekels over the past 92 days by the Israeli occupation army."

It said theft operations occurred in various ways, such as those at Israeli checkpoints.

For example at Salah al Din Street, Israeli troops stole bags containing valuable possessions such as money, gold and artefacts from the displaced people who had moved from northern Gaza to the south.


The IDF didn't set up any checkpoints on Salah al-Din Road. They didn't stop people from moving and they didn't inspect bags. This is all fiction.


Some IDF soldiers did make videos showing jewelry or perfume they found in houses in Gaza. Anyone who took anything should be prosecuted; it violated the laws of war as well as IDF regulations. In every war there are some idiots. But the $25 million figure is simply made up; the "checkpoint" accusation is simply made up.


The original charge of massive theft came from the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor which has a long track record of fabricating charges against Israel, and no media has bothered to expose it as a pro-Hamas propaganda outlet pretending to be a respected NGO. (Euro-Med also claimed that they had a video of IDF soldiers selling gold jewelry they had stolen in Gaza to a Palestinian shop in the West Bank, which is as ridiculous as it sounds.)

There is no disincentive for lying, because the media simply parrots even the most ludicrous claims. And the reason is that there is an underlying layer of antisemitism that makes even the most obvious lies seem truthful when the reporters believe that Jews are thieving liars.



 

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