Israel's War Against Hamas - Updates

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UNRWA has an online database of all aid being brought into Gaza, along with the sources and destinations.

When you delve into the data, some interesting details emerge.

For example, over the past month, by far more aid has been coming from Kerem Shalom in Israel than through Rafah in Egypt, and it looks like there have been some logistics problems over the past couple of weeks.



But most curious is that among the expected critical food items like flour, oil and milk, and among the large aid organizations like World Food Program or various Arab Red Crescent societies, we see some more luxurious food items being brought in, nearly all of them from what are called "the private sector."

For example, 50 pallets of croissants were imported by two traders, Abu Haitham and Al Khazander.

And the majority of the frozen chickens and meat that have gone into Gaza, hundreds of pallets, have been sent and received by the Ibrahim al-Taweel company, which appears to be a meat importer based on its logo.

All of the named private sector companies that are importing goods into Gaza go through the Rafah crossing, not through Kerem Shalom.

One item among the food, medicine and blankets is also very unusual. On February 6, a truckful of forklifts came into Gaza via Rafah. it was donated by UNRWA but the recipient was "Private sector - Adham Shuhaiber." It is a very out-of-place item - the only heavy equipment I could find - in a database of over 15,000 items.

I have no direct evidence that anything bad is going on, but if Hamas was taking advantage of the importing of goods into Gaza, it stands to reason that they would be able to pressure private sector companies to bring in what they need to continue fighting.

Some anomalies in the database of aid brought into Gaza

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Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Chairman of the Supreme Islamic Council, with German dictator Adolf Hitler in 1941. (German Federal Archive via Wikimedia Commons)


When in the aftermath of the Hamas October 7 attack on Israel, Jonathan Brent heard many people’s pro-Palestinian reactions — including those of some young Jews — it was obvious to him that they did not have a full understanding of why it happened.

Brent, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research executive director and CEO, felt his organization was in a position to try to educate about what motivated Hamas: The terror group’s radical, genocidal, and anti-Jewish Islamism emerged in the 1930s and 1940s when it was fed by an ideological connection with Hitler’s Nazism.

Brent invited historian of modern Germany Jeffrey Herf, who has studied the Hamas-Nazism link, to curate a three-part webinar series hosted by YIVO titled, “The Origins and Ideology of Hamas.”


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A NY Yiddish center finds Nazis lurking deep within Hamas’s ideology

Starting Feb. 26, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research sponsors a 3-part webinar with scholars countering the view that October 7 was 'payback' for Israel's rule over the West Bank

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Five IDF soldiers who survived Hamas’s October 7 attack on the Nahal Oz surveillance base returned recently for the first time to see the charred remains of their former command center, where many of their fellow soldiers were killed or taken hostage during the shock onslaught.

A Channel 12 television report that aired Friday documented their emotional return to the base, where 15 surveillance soldiers were killed and six more were taken hostage on October 7. In total, 66 troops were killed in the assault on the base, part of the massive Hamas-led onslaught in southern Israel in which Palestinian terrorists 1,200 people were killed, mostly civilians, and 253 kidnapped.

“It’s not easy,” said Maya, identified only by her first name. “It’s strange for me that they’re not here, it’s strange to be in the command center without them.”


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‘Strange to be here without them’: Soldiers who survived Oct. 7 return to Nahal Oz base

Survivors who escaped command center inferno make emotional visit to its charred remains, which they recall were once filled with military activity, soldiers' banter

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On Feb. 15, the IDF announced formally that it had begun operating in Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, which like every other medical, educational and civilian site in Gaza served as a Hamas military hub.

As IDF special forces entered the complex, some 200 Hamas members surrendered without firing a shot.

The IDF began the operation with a call to the hospital’s director from Col. Moshe Tetro, head of the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration, who is responsible for the IDF’s humanitarian efforts throughout the war.


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IDF Completes Nasser Hospital Operation Without Firing a Single Shot | United with Israel

The IDF has demonstrated that it can operate in the most challenging urban warfare environment in the world.

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This isn't the first time Anila Ali, a Muslim-American of Pakistani heritage who works to promote the rights of women in conflict zones around the world, has come to Israel. But this visit is different. The sexual assaults carried out by Hamas terrorists and Gaza Strip residents on Israeli women touched her personally. "How can one not cry over the girls who were raped by the terrorists?" She's not just horrified with the crimes themselves; she's shocked by the global silence over the sexual violence. Even international movements and organizations that champion the protection of women rights chose this time to equivocate. Only at the end of last week did UN Women explicitly condemn what had happened.


"It's sad that the world avoided acknowledging that women were raped by Hamas," Ali says in an interview with Israel Hayom. "And why? Because they're Israelis. We heard what Hamas did, we saw the pictures of girls being taken to Gaza, how they dragged one of the young women away, and to think about what they did to her and to others…the world demonizes Israel. I won't accept women's rights activists standing on the sidelines when it happens to Israel. It makes me want to fight for the truth even more; like I supported women in Afghanistan who were harmed by the Taliban."

Anila Ali

Without equivocating, she answers all the skeptics. "Because the victims are Jewish women, you're selective? You can't choose victims and decide that you only support the rights of women who aren't Israelis. Even if you don't agree politically with everything that's happening here, you must stand up for the truth. The world needs to wake up from its hypocrisy. And to the women held captive in Gaza, I say – don't be afraid, you will be heroines when you return."


Ali arrived in Israel with a delegation of Muslim activists from the organization AMMWEC (American Muslim & Multifaith Women's Empowerment Council), which she heads, She is angry at Hamas and terrorist organizations that "stole Islam from us, took our religion and use it to create terror and to divide us. They caused Islamophobia. It was the same on 9/11. Hamas, the Taliban, ISIS – they're all the same, how they made our lives miserable."

"Enough with the sanctification of death"

Ali (56), a mother of two, immigrated from Pakistan to the United States three decades ago. On one of her trips to Israel, she visited Ramallah and Jenin and heard how young men spoke about jihad (holy war) and intifada (uprising) for the sake of Islam. Regarding the Palestinian mothers, she says: "You're giving the children money to do terror. If you say that you're oppressed, what are you doing to get out of it? Think about how you'll educate your children. Give your children balls to play with and not bombs. Allah granted precious life to live, you need to stop sanctifying death. This is your obligation to strengthen the children, to lead them forward, and to look to the future, to your neighbors, to aspire for peace. Do you want to raise another generation of women? Killing can't serve as a model for children anymore. As a mother and a woman, I think that we need to educate them to accept their neighbors, and we've failed if we don't succeed in doing so."


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https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/12/03/muslim-activist-shocked-by-world-ignoring-hamas-rapes-of-israelis/