Hamas Using Women and Children to test the IDF Yellow Line

(World Israel News Staff) 

Hamas is ratcheting up its operations along the ceasefire line inside of the Gaza Strip, according to a report by Israel’s Galei Tzahal radio, with increasingly daring attempts to infiltrate the Israeli-controlled side.

Soldiers from the IDF’s Alexandroni Brigade told Galei Tzahal that Hamas has begun systematically testing IDF forces along the Yellow Line on a daily basis, often using women and children to probe for weak spots in the IDF’s defenses.

One Brigade soldier told Galei Tzahal that the use of civilians by Hamas to test for holes in the army’s defensive line creates a “dilemma” for soldiers.

“When there is an armed terrorist who poses a threat, there is no dilemma,” he said. “The dilemma arises when you see women and children. We are still a humanitarian army.”

While unarmed civilians are frequently spotted attempting to cross the Yellow Line, soldiers added that there are also regular infiltration attempts by armed terrorists carrying assault rifles, pistols, and at times even axes.

The increased incidence of small infiltration attempts has raised fears that Hamas could be preparing for a major infiltration, possibly by an elite terrorist unit, such as a company of Nukhba Force terrorists.

Israeli officers deployed to Gaza warned that Hamas “is reconstituting itself, growing stronger” during the ceasefire.

Hamas “has replaced the commanders who were eliminated and is far from raising the white flag.”

There are still a number of active tunnel networks near the Yellow Line, IDF commanders said, with one commenting that “no matter how many tunnels you may think there are, there are always even more.”

Hamas Report 50,000 Killed were Fighters

 

According to ME24 - Middle East (@MiddleEast_24) a new voice of the Middle East - aggregating and curating news, politics and trends from the Middle East and North Africa, Hamas has announced it will pay stipends to around 50,000 widows of fighters killed since October 7.

At the same time, Hamas claims that approximately 70,000 Palestinians in total were killed during the war.

Now just do the math.

If 50,000 of the dead were fighters, and the total claimed death toll is 70,000, that leaves around 20,000 civilians. In other words 70% were combatants

Remind ourselves of what the global pro-Palestinian narrative has been. 70000 innocent Palestinians murdered, genocide, ethnic cleansing…

…the narrative pushed globally has been that the vast majority of those killed were women and children, used to justify claims of indiscriminate killing and genocide. Those claims cannot coexist with Hamas’s own numbers.

You cannot say most casualties were civilians while simultaneously acknowledging tens of thousands of combatant deaths. Both statements cannot be true at the same time.

The math simply doesn’t math.

If you want to accuse an entire nation of committing a genocide, at least be consistent with your numbers.

Numbers are being used as weapons, and when you place them side by side, this narrative and propaganda and antisemitic rhetoric collapse immediately.

Civilian deaths whilst tragic, always, is a byproduct of war. But exaggerating or manipulating figures does not honour civilians, it exploits them. And that’s all they become, numbers.

If casualty numbers are going to be used to make the most serious accusations possible, they must withstand the most basic test.

These don’t and therefore stop watering down the word genocide, and apply it to genuine genocides happening in the world, ie Iran, Sudan, Nigeria.

NOTE.

Exact figures coming out of Gaza are inherently unreliable because they originate from a Hamas-run system that does not separate civilian deaths from fighters.

Israel is the Agressor

(Thanks to "Nation of Israel Lives")

 “Israel is the aggressor”? The data completely disagrees with you.

Defense Spending

In the 1980s, Israel’s defense spending exceeded 30% of GDP. On the eve of October 7th, it was around 5%. What caused Israel to raise its defense spending again? That’s right, Palestinian aggression.

Service Terms

Mandatory military service was reduced by 4 months for both men and women. For men, it was reduced from three years to about 2.8 years. For women, service was reduced from two years to about 1.8 years. What caused Israel to raise it back up again? That’s right, Palestinian aggression. 

Defensive Technologies

Instead of attacking aggressively, Israel invested heavily in defensive systems like Iron Dome and Iron Beam. Why? To intercept rockets. To protect civilians. To avoid large-scale wars whenever possible. What caused Israel to destroy Gaza? That’s right, Palestinian aggression. 

Land for Peace

Israel withdrew completely from Gaza and parts of northern Samaria, and got October 7th. Israel returned the entire Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for peace. It handed control of the Al-Aqsa compound to the Jordanian Waqf to reduce religious conflict.

What made Israel conquer land again? You guessed it, Palestinian aggression, as well as aggression from terror groups threatening us on our borders.

Occupation

Israel signed the Oslo Accords with the PLO, an organization previously recognized globally as a terror group.

The idea was to stop any form of “aggression” and work toward peace. To let the Palestinians self-govern. This turned out very badly with the Second Intifada. Why did this not work? Yup, Palestinian aggression.

Double Standard

One final number to think about.

Israel has been the subject of 173 UN condemnations. Most countries in the world have fewer than three. And the Palestinian Authority?  Almost zero.

 

Deafening Silence

( Cross posted from Grandma's Army)

It is no secret that the Iranian regime is an authoritarian state that enforces religious conformity through violence and fear. The ordinary Iranian people  are risking, and losing, their lives  in an attempt to reclaim their country and their freedom  - from one of the most frightening theocracies on earth. The regime kills those who dare to protest, having oppressed its population since the Shah was driven out. It is also no secret that the death penalty is issued disproportionately among Iran’s persecuted minorities – including Christians, Baha’i and Kurds.

Iranian women who refuse compulsory veiling, students who chant for freedom, artists who risk prison for a line of poetry, and civilians abducted from their homes all find themselves strangely sidelined. Their suffering is real, but it is not useful. Their humanity is undeniable, but it does not flatter the ideological needs of the moment.

At the same time, Iran directs its fury outward, threatening Israel relentlessly. Terrorism does not appear from nowhere; it must be cultivated, through indoctrination, hatred, and the deliberate radicalization of the young, until they are willing to die for it. That poison has now spread far beyond Iran’s borders.

The world’s most organised and persistent outrage is aimed, not at these regimes which support terror, but at one of the smallest minorities on earth: the Jews, and their state.

But all this apparently doesn’t bother the average Western student as much as Israel’s response in Gaza. The Iranian-sponsored, Hamas-led invasion and mega atrocity of October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 were murdered, 251 kidnapped, thousands wounded, and tens of thousands displaced from their homes - many of which were destroyed.  

So why the silence?

Simply put, opposing the Iranian regime has become inconvenient. And it may not be incidental that Iran’s leadership has, for decades, pledged itself to the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state - a reality that renders condemnation of Tehran uncomfortably close to defending Israel.

Israel and the United States are assigned the role of primary villains, and any force positioned against them benefits from a kind of moral insulation. Iran, despite its internal brutality, occupies a strange protected space, not because it is admired, but because criticizing it risks appearing to align oneself, however indirectly, with the assumed evils of the West. This same pattern revealed itself starkly after October 7. In the wake of mass murder, rape, and kidnapping, one might reasonably have expected unwavering universal condemnation. And yet, here too, the silence was striking.

Many of the same cultural figures who speak readily about injustice could not bring themselves to say a word about the hostages. Their captivity did not register as a moral emergency. Their release, when it occurred, was not celebrated. There were no statements of relief, no acknowledgments of suffering, no insistence, however minimal, that kidnapping civilians is wrong regardless of context.

This was not ignorance. It was purposeful omission. Silence was the safer bet. The same logic that applies to Iran.

This leads to an uncomfortable but unavoidable conclusion: it is as unfashionable to support Iranian protesters as it was to insist on the basic humanity of Israeli hostages - and the right of Israel to defend itself from implacable enemies, whose only mission in life is Israel’s total destruction.

Silence, in moments like this, is not neutral. It is a position. And it communicates something unmistakable. It tells the world that solidarity is selective. That some victims are too inconvenient to acknowledge. It suggests that suffering alone is insufficient to warrant concern, that it must first pass an ideological test.