Israel At War – Day 43
They Don’t Play Fair

Hospital Evacuates

According to the IDF, doctors at the Al-Shifa Hospital asked them to aid them in helping patienst leave. Some are saying that the IDF ordered the evacuation, but we read more about this from The Times Of Israel (see https://www.timesofisrael.com/most-patients-staff-displaced-leave-shifa-hospital-area-idf-pushes-deeper-into-gaza/) :

Patients, staff and displaced people on Saturday left Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s largest medical center, health officials in the Strip said, leaving behind only a skeleton crew to care for those too sick to move and Israeli forces in control of the facility.

The exodus from Shifa Hospital in Gaza City came the same day internet and phone service was restored to the Gaza Strip, ending a telecommunications blackout that forced the United Nations to shut down critical humanitarian aid deliveries because it was unable to coordinate its convoys.

On Saturday, the Israel Defense Forces said it had been asked by the hospital’s director to help those who would like to leave do so by a secure route.

More Weapons Found

According to a report from i24news.tv (see https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel-at-war/1700309831-idf-finds-hamas-weapons-inside-gaza-school) the IDF found a weapons cache inside a Gaza school building, confirming again that the terrorist group uses places where civilians will be in harms way since they know the pressure put on Israel to not harm innocent people. More weapons were found in the hotly contested West Bank as we read in this report from another article seen in i24news.tv (see https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1700208548-israeli-security-forces-carry-out-arrest-raid-in-west-bank-map-terrorists-houses) :

The IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Border Police operated in the West Bank overnight between Thursday and Friday, arresting several suspects, confiscating weapons, and mapped the houses of terrorists that carried out a shooting terror attack.

The Israeli security forces arrested 21 wanted persons throughout the West Bank, six of whom are associated with the terrorist organization Hamas.

The IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Border Police operated in the West Bank overnight between Thursday and Friday, arresting several suspects, confiscating weapons, and mapped the houses of terrorists that carried out a shooting terror attack.

The Israeli security forces arrested 21 wanted persons throughout the West Bank, six of whom are associated with the terrorist organization Hamas.

Weapons were also found at the entrance to a hospital in the West Bank as if we needed more proof of how Hamas uses people as human shields.

But We See More Evidence

In another instance of Hamas terrorists using place where children live, the IDF, from an article in The Times Of Israel (see https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-shares-footage-of-rockets-discovered-under-young-girls-bed-in-northern-gaza/?utm_source=article_hpsidebar&utm_medium=desktop_site&utm_campaign=most-patients-staff-displaced-leave-shifa-hospital-area-idf-pushes-deeper-into-gaza) we read this:

Troops from the Israeli Defense Force’s 551st Reserve Brigade said that they discovered Hamas rockets stored inside the bed of a young girl in a home in the Beit Hanoun city in northern Gaza.

In video footage released on Thursday, the military showed rockets that it said had been kept in a storage unit underneath the bed in a bedroom with a “baby girl” sign on the wall.

Nearby, the IDF also showed a number of weapons it said it uncovered in the home, including missiles, explosive devices and explosive materials. The IDF said it destroyed the weaponry.

The IDF also say they intercepted a call of terrorists talking about moving anti-tank missiles in a baby stroller:

The military also published audio of what it said was an intercepted phone call between Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists about how they were transporting anti-tank missiles inside a stroller.

“Terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip continue to cynically use children of Gaza as a cover for terrorist operations,” an IDF spokesman said of the discovery.

For years, Israel has alleged that Hamas and other Gaza terror groups routinely use the coastal enclave’s civilian population as human shields in efforts to keep themselves safe and to prevent IDF retaliation.

They Don’t Play Fair

It seems like I am showing an inordinate amount of pictures and a video that shows weapons discovered in places such weaponry should never be found like schools, hospitals, and even under the bed of a little girl. However the IDF is going out of its way to document such tactics to show the world that these terrorist don’t play fair. I could have shown you a video of a Palestinian woman whose baby was given an organ transplant from an IDF soldier who died earlier and the woman actually hoped the baby would grow up to be suicide bomber one day. Who thinks like that? How twisted is it to hope for that? Such demonic planning is also illustrated in this excerpt from an article found on CBN.com (see https://www2.cbn.com/news/israel/israeli-soldiers-find-terror-tunnel-shaft-hospital-grounds-discover-bodies-2-hostages) :

The Israel Defense Forces found an operational terror tunnel shaft on the grounds of the Shifa Hospital. Israel has been asserting that tunnels under the hospital are part of Hamas’s terror command center. They also discovered a booby-trapped vehicle containing a large amount of weapons.

“We found a vehicle filled with ammunition, RPGs, AK47s. We see handcuffs, knives, preparations for taking hostages from Israel on the attack of October 7th. As you can see, they were very well prepared, and where they are hiding all this equipment is in a hospital, a place that’s supposed to be for humanitarian aid; they have all this evil hidden here,” said one unnamed IDF soldier in a video released by the military.

Our Enemy Doesn’t Play Fair Either

It should go without saying that our enemy, the great spiritual terrorist of our souls, actually takes pleasure in these tactics, because he is the author of them. Yes, it is true that people have to be responsible for their thoughts and actions, but they are built on lies and the Devil is the father of all lies. Teaching children to hate anyone let alone Jews is pure evil, and we see that kind of twisted logic in all of these stories in this lesson. Unfortunately, people who feel sympathy for Hamas feeling that their oppression by Israel pushed them over the edge aren’t paying attention and are certainly not reading history. Israel is the one who is bringing medical equipment from their hospitals to Gaza hospitals. Israel is the one who rains down flyers warning people to leave targets where Hamas is hiding. And Israelis on the Gaza border that Hamas attacked was home to people like this that we read about from the same CBN.com news article:

“We live so close to Gaza. We were the ones who made some relationships with the Gazans. And my car was the one who took sick kids to the hospitals because I thought, this is what’s true and this is what I needed to do. And I don’t know if we were very comfortable; we thought, nobody can do it. Because on a daily basis, we were the ones who helped them,” said Elinor Biton-Bariach, a Hamas attack survivor from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. Hamas terrorists murdered 63 people and took 19 hostages in Kfar Aza.

That is how they were repaid for their kindness.

They Must Be Better

That is how Israel ultimately wins this war against terrorists. They must destroy Hamas and all terrorists surrounding them and then they must go back in and help the civilians who just want to live in peace and provide for their families and help them rebuild their homes and their lives. Along the way, they need to help the next generation to not be stuck in the fallen thinking that they are dead the moment they are born as seen in this quote from the mother of the child saved by the organ transplant: “Jews value life. For us life is zero. Life is worth nothing.” Can they save the current generation? It doesn’t appear that can happen, but they certainly must try and definitely teach the children to not hate but love and to see that they can actually experience better days with Israel in charge of things. Some would say that is not a good thing. We should let the Palestinians have their own land again. In time, that could be an option. For now stopping the cycle of death and despair must take precedence. It is ingrained in them for generations and rooting it out will take the miraculous intervention of God. Impossible? No. With God all things are possible. Let’s pray the impossible becomes possible.