Video shows Israeli forces tear open teddy bear stuffed with rifle,
ammo at Gaza school
Israeli soldiers found a sniper rifle and ammunition hidden inside a large teddy bear during a raid on a school in the Gaza Strip.
The weapons were found at a school compound in the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaia Friday after Israel Defense Forces engaged in heavy fighting with a Hamas terrorist cell in the area, Israeli news reports said.
A video released by the IDF showed soldiers pulling the giant teddy from a pile of furniture and other items strewn across the classroom, laying it down, and slicing it open.
Hidden among the stuffing was the long rifle and a box of ammunition.
The school was used for terror purposes by Hamas, according to the IDF.
A search of the school compound where the teddy bear was found also revealed a tunnel shaft inside of a classroom, according to a report in the Jerusalem Post.
The tunnel discovery adds to the evidence that Hamas uses civilian areas, such as hospitals and shelters, as a cover for its terrorist activities, the report said.
Earlier this week, the IDF said it had found one of the largest Hamas stockpiles of weapons in the history of its operations in Gaza next to a school and a hospital.
The weapons cache contained hundreds of missiles and explosives, among other weapons, according to reports.
“Who stores RPG missiles, anti-tank missiles, explosive devices, long-range missiles, grenades, and UAVs at a school and a medical facility in Gaza?” the IDF asked in a post on X Wednesday. “The answer: Hamas. Hamas doesn’t hide their terrorism. Stop excusing it.”
Saturday, Israeli warplanes continued to strike parts of the Gaza Strip by land, sea, and air.
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Gaza Woman Denounces Hamas for Stealing All the Aid, Haniyeh’s Son Spent $25,000 on Jewelry
An elderly woman in Gaza was being interviewed by an Al Jazeera reporter when, no doubt to his surprise, she denounced Hamas for stealing all the aid meant for the people of Gaza. You can see her brave outburst above:
Gaza woman tells Al-Jazeera Hamas stealing all the aid
Times of Israel, December 7, 2023:
In a rare display of public criticism, a Gaza resident tells the Al-Jazeera TV channel that the lack of aid to residents of the Strip is due to Hamas stealing it.
Asked about the supposed trickle of aid coming into Gaza, the woman, says there is plenty of aid, but “all aid goes down (into Hamas tunnels).”
“The aid does not reach the nation, all the people,” she says.
When the journalist from the pro-Palestinian Qatari channel tells her that only a small amount of aid is coming in and it is all being distributed, she shakes her fingers at him and says: “All of it goes into their houses. They take it and will even shoot me or do whatever they want, Hamas.”
In a related story, the IDF recently found receipts in a Hamas-occupied house in Gaza, made out to Moaz Haniyeh, the son of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of Hamas’ “political wing,” for $25,000 worth of jewelry. That story can be found here:
IDF shows receipts it says show Haniyeh’s son
bought thousands of dollars of jewelry
Times of Israel, December 7, 2023:
The IDF publishes receipts found during raids on Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip that it sayshows that a son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh bought jewelry in recent years worth thousands of dollars while many in Gaza were going hungry.
The post from IDF Arabic language spokesman Avicha ynAdraee purport to show receipts from both Gaza and Qatar for purchases made by Moaz Haniyeh.
The five receipts total some $25,000.
The post notes that the “amount of just one receipt is equivalent to approximately two years’ wages for a Gaza resident.”
What will Gaza residents make of such lavish spending by a member of Hamas’ royalty? And what will the Gazans think,as they try to survive, and support their families, on a few thousand dollars a year,when they discover that Ismail Haniyeh, who has for years been living in five-star luxury in Doha, has amassed a fortune of $4 billion? Or when they find out that two other Hamas leaders, Moussa bin Marzouk and Khaled Meshaal, both of them also living large in Doha, have helped themselves to $3 billion and $4 billion, respectively, that is, at least a thousand times what the average Palestinian breadwinner can make in a year of toil, assuming he can even find a job?
Once the IDF has destroyed Hamas’ military might, what will the people of Gaza do to the remaining Hamas members, now suddenly vulnerable? They are likely to explode — like the elderly woman who denounced Hamas to an Al Jazeera reporter — in murderous rage at the Hamas operatives still alive in Gaza who have made their lives so miserable for so long. How will those in the West who are now so busy defending Hamas as the legitimate “resistance” to colonial-settler-apartheid-genocidal Israel then react? Will those students on campus now loudly declaring “we are Hamas” and “we echo Hamas” find a new way to express their hatred of Israel? Of course they will.
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Qatar: Newspaper publishes poem calling on Muslims
to ‘restore Islamic rule throughout the world’
Will the jihadis restore Islamic rule throughout the world? Unlikely. Will the jihadis kill many people as they try? Certainly. Is the West continuing to ignore, downplay, or — increasingly — identify with this imperative? Yes.
Poem In Qatari ‘Al-Sharq’ Daily Calls On Gazans, Muslims To
Wage Jihad And Restore Islamic Rule Throughout The World
MEMRI, December 7, 2023:
On November 25, 2023, against the backdrop of the Qatar-brokered humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza war, the Qatari daily Al-Sharq published an inciting poem titled “O Glorious Gaza, Rise Up” by Osama Al-Agha, an Arabic teacher in a Doha elementary school.
The poem urges the people of Gaza and the Muslims at large to rise up and wage jihad in order to “crush the Zionists on the battlefield,” liberate the Al-Aqsa mosque and restore Islamic rule throughout the world. The poet also addresses Hamas’ late founder, Ahmad Yassin, saying, “Oh [Ahmad] Yassin, I see victory smiling.”
It should be noted that, as documented by MEMRI over the years, Qatar has for years been sheltering Hamas leaders, extending economic aid to Hamas and backing its armed action against Israel.[1]Moreover, the Qatari press regularly publishes articles praising jihad and armed struggle against Israel and encouraging terror within it.[2]
The poem in the Al-Sharq daily
The following is a translation of the poem.[3]
“O glorious Gaza, rise up and anticipate victory.
O people, wage jihad, for victory beckons.
Rise up and rebel, and establish the state of Islam
So that we realize our aspirations, my people.
Stand up and let us defeat the army that was the enemy’s pride,
Stand up and let us now crush the Zionists on the battlefield.
The [Gaza] Strip has come to lead the convoy,
And the lions leapt up to attack in our land.
The rebels burst forth like a flood,[4]
To drive out evil, oppression and humiliation.
Jerusalem too is enraged,
The mountains of Nablus erupt like volcanoes.
O Muslims, come [fight], for the call is directed at [all of] us.
The masses of worshipers at Al-Aqsa call out to us.
Let us advance on Al-Aqsa and liberate it.
We shall restore Islamic rule throughout the world….
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