Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border

[Sixties Fan]

“As previously reported, COGAT sent notices to the owners of transportation companies in the Gaza Strip, warning them not to aid in the transport of Hamas terrorists and violent rioters to the Gaza Strip border with Israel,” Mordechai writes in a statement.

The COGAT head asserts that “the violent riots that have been taking place are fueled by Hamas and are an attempt to mask terror activities.”

In a separate Arabic Facebook post, Mordechai lists the 14 companies by name.

(full article online)

COGAT sanctions Gaza transport companies that ferried protesters

 

[Sixties Fan]

So when, in today's newspaper, the New York Times invoked Lennon's most famous anti-war lyrics to describe Hamas's position — "Battle Weary, Hamas Gives Peaceful Protests a Chance," a headline in the newspaper's April 16 print edition declared — it was a discordant juxtaposition with the terror organization's actual policies, and its continued glorification of violence. Only a day earlier, Israel uncovered yet another of Hamas's cross-border attack tunnels.

The Times article itself was somewhat more equivocal than its print headline. Reporter David Halbfinger told readers that "mixed messages have abounded" during the Great Return March, the name given to planned Palestinian demonstrations and riots along Israel's border. He quoted a Palestinian leader describing the march as a "deadly weapon," acknowledged that the supposedly peaceful protesters have thrown firebombs and other explosives, and cited skepticism of the idea that Hamas "may actually be rethinking its strategy."

But later in the piece Halbfinger seemed to forget about those firebombs, and about the distinction between Palestinian families gathered in tents further from the border and rioters who sought to harm the fence and the Israelis guarding it, when he stated that Israel responded to "protests" with gunfire that killed Palestinians, "almost all of them unarmed."

(full article online)

CAMERA: Times Headline Invokes John Lennon Anti-War Lyrics to Describe Hamas

 

[Sixties Fan]

Just as contradictory as the Times reporting on Israel’s use of nonlethal force has been its reporting in economic conditions in Gaza. One Times dispatch managed simultaneously to refer to Gaza’s “collapsing economy” and report as well that at one of the riot sites, “Once a day or so, a delivery arrives with free slices of pizza or cakes.”

The Times has been insisting that the Gaza riots were “ignited by isolation and economic deprivation.” A good question for the newspaper’s intrepid Gaza-based journalists to pursue might be who paid for the pizza and cakes, and who caused them to be delivered to the riot site? They may have been “free” to the rioters, but someone must have paid at some point for their ingredients, production, and delivery. Instead the Times account has them arriving almost magically, a kind of immaculate pizza delivery, a Domino’s ex machina, so to speak.

Speaking of pizza, there’s actually an interesting news article to be written about the Gaza dairy industry. A 2017 Oxfam International report faulted Israel for flooding Gaza with dairy products:

(full article online)

Palestinian ‘Protest Pizza’ Tells a Story at Which The New York Times Only Hints

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

“Sharp Power”: Hamas’s Dirty War Against Israel

 

[Sixties Fan]

The 'supreme national authority of the return march' and the breaking of the siege in Gaza' announced Wednesday the relocation of the protest tent city 50 meters, bringing it closer to the border fence with Israel, the al Resalah Arabic news site reported.

The council stated that the relocation of the tent city would serve "as a continuation of the national program of the return marches and the breaking of the siege. [It is] a message of determination from our people to the world around us to move forward towards its legitimate and permanent objectives. We declare that the camps of return are 50 meters ahead as a first step."

(full article online)

Gaza tent city moved 50 meters closer to border

 

[jillian]

Not really a wise thing to do. Trouble by Sunday, perhaps?

Hamas to Swarm Israel's Border, Sparking Fear of New 'Passover War'

that's from March 29th.

Passover is over... it didn't happen.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Not really a wise thing to do. Trouble by Sunday, perhaps?

Hamas to Swarm Israel's Border, Sparking Fear of New 'Passover War'

that's from March 29th.

Passover is over... it didn't happen.

It was posted March 30th. The piece was published March 29th. There were incidents at the Wall. About 50 "Palestinians" were killed.

Why do Democrats so enjoy ignorance?

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terror Center has released its initial analysis of the first 32 people reported killed in the Gaza riots, and they find that as many as 80% of the 32 killed so far have been members of, or associated with, terror organizations.

(full article online)

80% of those killed in Gaza have been members of, or linked to, terror organizations ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

A few years ago, there was another "march" on Israel. At the time, legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich wrote a relevant article on the legality of Israel defending itself in such a situation - using a startlingly similar event that happened in the Western Sahara:

In 1975, Spain appeared ready to pull out of much or all of Western Sahara, a large desert region between Mauritania and Morocco. Rabat hoped to annex the mineral-rich territory, but its claims of sovereignty were successively denied by a report of a U.N. fact-finding mission and an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, both of which favored self-determination for the region.

Morocco was not deterred. Right after being rebuffed by those international organs, it mounted the Green March — sending 350,000 unarmed Moroccans on a well-choreographed hike into Western Sahara. Spain was not willing to fight against such numbers, and evacuated the territory. The Moroccan military moved in, and the territory remains under Moroccan control to this day.

The press has taken to calling the Arabs marching across the Israeli frontier “protesters.” In fact, “protests” are contained within a country;the organized crossing of a frontier is an invasion. In 1975, when Western Sahara was the victim, the world community was clear on this point (even though the Moroccans were unarmed.). Other Arab leaders called the Green March “a violation of the sovereignty of” Western Sahara and “an act contrary to international law.” Prominent international scholars described it as an illegal use of force, a “stealing of the Sahara,” in the words of one of the leading international lawyers of the time. The U.N. Security Council passed a measure that “deplored” Morocco’s invasion.

Moreover, despite the nominally civilian character of the marchers, several U.N. General Assembly resolutions recognized that the enterprise constituted a military occupation by Morocco. Observers noted that the march could not have gone off without the permission, and indeed encouragement, of King Hassan of Morocco, and thus he must take responsibility as if he had ordered army units across the border. It was a conquest despite the lack of arms: A large organized mob can be as forceful as an armed military unit. Indeed, as the Spanish capitulation proved, a march could be a more effective tool of conquest than a military strike against Western armies reluctant to fire on civilians.

(full article online)

What are Israel's rights under international law to defend itself from Gaza "marchers"? ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

In first, European Parliament condemns Hamas for terror, use of human shields

 

[Sixties Fan]

Hamas is instructing the media in Gaza on how ensure that coverage of the riots at the border aligns with the terror group's propaganda aims. This article was published on Sunday at an Palestinian media outlet:

"The Governmental Information Office of the Palestinian Ministry of Information has set specific restrictions on media coverage of the Great Return Movement, which comes in the context of ensuring the objective national coverage of the events and exposing the crimes of the occupation against the Palestinian people.

The Information Office stressed the need to describe the terms of events in the eastern Gaza Strip accurately, and not to use the terms confrontations or clashes, but an attack by the occupation army and its snipers on peaceful and peaceful civil movement.

It called on journalists and the local media to focus on the scene as a whole in accordance with the principles and objectives of the march announced by the National Committee for the March, and to try not to highlight the individual actions that are incompatible with the objectives of the marches."

No photos of Molotov cocktails and placing IEDs.

(full article online)

Hamas instructs the media on how to cover the riots ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[IsaacNewton]

Are they still 'massing'? Or has the massing subsided into loitering, or into soccer. Did the end of the world take place?

Was this thread here for a reason? Enquiring minds want to know.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Ma'an reports that the tents set up for Gaza demonstrators tomorrow are only 50 meters away from the fence, much closer than the hundreds of meters that they had been up until now.

Tellingly, the person who explains this decision is from the Islamic Jihad terror group.

Leader of the Islamic Jihad movement and a member of the refugee committee in the return march, Ahmed Almdalal, told reporters that the tents will get closer to the fence every week culminating in the attempt to cut the fence on "Nakba Day."

(full article online)

Friday's Gaza demonstration tents moving closer to fence as more kite firebombs are prepared ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

Israeli military aircraft dropped leaflets near the Gaza border on Friday morning warning Palestinians to keep away from the fence separating the coastal enclave from Israel, the IDF said, ahead of expected mass demonstrations slated for later in the day.

In a statement, the army said that the leaflets warned “against approaching the fence, attempting to damage it or attempts at terrorism.

“Violent disturbances in recent weeks took advantage of civilians in order to carry out terrorist acts against Israeli and IDF security infrastructure,” the statement continued. “The IDF will not abide damage to security infrastructure and the fence, which protect Israeli citizens, and will target anyone who attempts to harm Israel’s security.”

(full article online)

Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza protesters to keep away from fence

 

[P F Tinmore]

Israeli military aircraft dropped leaflets near the Gaza border on Friday morning warning Palestinians to keep away from the fence separating the coastal enclave from Israel, the IDF said, ahead of expected mass demonstrations slated for later in the day.

In a statement, the army said that the leaflets warned “against approaching the fence, attempting to damage it or attempts at terrorism.

“Violent disturbances in recent weeks took advantage of civilians in order to carry out terrorist acts against Israeli and IDF security infrastructure,” the statement continued. “The IDF will not abide damage to security infrastructure and the fence, which protect Israeli citizens, and will target anyone who attempts to harm Israel’s security.”

(full article online)

Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza protesters to keep away from fence

So Israel is telling Palestinians to stay off of Palestinian land? WTF!

 

[rylah]

Israeli military aircraft dropped leaflets near the Gaza border on Friday morning warning Palestinians to keep away from the fence separating the coastal enclave from Israel, the IDF said, ahead of expected mass demonstrations slated for later in the day.

In a statement, the army said that the leaflets warned “against approaching the fence, attempting to damage it or attempts at terrorism.

“Violent disturbances in recent weeks took advantage of civilians in order to carry out terrorist acts against Israeli and IDF security infrastructure,” the statement continued. “The IDF will not abide damage to security infrastructure and the fence, which protect Israeli citizens, and will target anyone who attempts to harm Israel’s security.”

(full article online)

Israel drops leaflets warning Gaza protesters to keep away from fence

So Israel is telling Palestinians to stay off of Palestinian land? WTF!

Israel is telling Gazans to stay away from the fence,
and away from the Israelis.

Can't be more clear than that.

 

[Two Thumbs]

I'm not saying that Israel should commit genocide on the Pals

I'm just saying they should kill them all.

 

[rylah]

I'm not saying that Israel should commit genocide on the Pals

I'm just saying they should kill them all.

c'mon,...

Hamas intentions are suicidal they want to take as much Gazans and Israelis with them as they can. But it doesn't mean they can force anyone play into those sick provocations.

If anything it's the Arabs from the neighboring states who're more likely going to deal with Hamas themselves.

 

[Two Thumbs]

I'm not saying that Israel should commit genocide on the Pals

I'm just saying they should kill them all.

c'mon,...

Hamas intentions are suicidal they want to take as much Gazans and Israelis with them as they can. But it doesn't mean they can force anyone play into those sick provocations.

If anything it's the Arabs from the neighboring states who're more likely going to deal with Hamas themselves.

if the people that support hamas were going to deal with hamas, they would have done so by now