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IDF calls off strike after hundreds shield Gaza militant's house
By Nir Hasson, Aluf Ben and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Reuters
The Israel Defense Forces canceled a planned air raid on the home of a militant in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday after several hundred Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an IDF spokesman and witnesses said.

Palestinian sources called the protest the first of its kind to have in effect prevented an air strike by the IAF. An IDF spokesman said the strike had been called off so to avoid inflicting civilian casualties.

Hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the home of the militant in Beit Lahia late Saturday to prevent an Israel Air Force air strike on the building, residents said.

An IDF spokesman confirmed the raid had been called off because of the protest.

"The attack plan was canceled because of the people there," the spokesman said. "We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists."

The spokesman vowed Israel would continue its strikes against militants, and accused gunmen of using the civilians in the camp as human shields.

Earlier Saturday, two Palestinians, ages 16 and 20, were killed and five others wounded Saturday by Israel Defense Forces fire in Beit Lahiya. Three IDF soldiers were lightly injured by an anti-tank missile while operating against Qassam rocket infrastructure in Beit Lahia.

People flocked to the home of Mohammed al-Baroud after he received a warning from the army late Saturday giving him 30 minutes to leave the house. Barhoud is a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees in the town who is in charge of firing homemade rockets at Israel. Crowds of people stood on the rooftop and in the yard of the home.

Israel routinely orders occupants out of homes ahead of air strikes on suspected weapons-storage facilities, saying it wants to avoid casualties. The incident in Beit Lahia was the first time Palestinians have tried to prevent such an airstrike.

The crowd chanted anti-Israel and anti-American slogans, and people said they were prepared to give their lives to protect the home. "Yes to martyrdom. No to surrender," the crowd chanted.

"We came here to protect this fighter, to protect his house and to prove that we are capable of defeating this Zionist policy," said Nizar Rayan, a local Hamas leader who joined the protest,
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[quote="blueflame']Only when the Palestinian Arabs stop deliberately killing Israelis, will the Israelis no longer have need to defend themselves against them.

ican wrote: specific skills deemed by the government to be in short supply will be allowed to work,

It's obvious, you have a one-track mind. You don't ever see the problems from the Palestinian side, and forget or forgive all the atrocities committed by Israelis against the Palestinians and Lebanese. You're the monster in this picture; a blind one.

ican711nm wrote:

[quote="blueflame']Only when the Palestinian Arabs stop deliberately killing Israelis, will the Israelis no longer have need to defend themselves against them.

Only when the Israelis stop deliberately killing Palestinian Arabs, will the Palestinian Arabs no longer have need to defend themselves against them.

What's the difference ??????

ican wrote: specific skills deemed by the government to be in short supply will be allowed to work,

It's obvious, you have a one-track mind. You don't ever see the problems from the Palestinian side, and forget or forgive all the atrocities committed by Israelis against the Palestinians and Lebanese. You're the monster in this picture; a blind one.

The Palestinian Arabs in words and deeds have made it clear that they seek the removal of Israel and are willing to continue to kill Israelis until they obtain what they seek.

The crowd knew they were protecting a deliberate killer of Israelis. The crowd was assisting that deliberate killer of Israelis. The crowd was aiding and abetting that deliberate killer of Israelis. As such, the crowd did not consist of innocent civilians. It consisted of people who were helpers of a killer of Israelis.

The IDF spokeman said, "The attack plan was canceled because of the people there. We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists."

There was nothing innocent about those people who surrounded the home of Mohammed al-Baroud. "Barhoud is a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees in the town who is in charge of firing homemade rockets at Israel." The crowd knew this and supported al-Baroud anyway.

Because of this, the Israelis should have destroyed Baroud's house and the members of that crowd with it.

U.N. Panel Says Israel Used Excessive Force in LebanonThe United Nations Mine Action Coordination Center has estimated that Israel fired as many as four million cluster submunitions, as the bomblets are known, and that up to one million may not have detonated. Israel fired many of the munitions with its Multiple Launch Rocket System, which can fire 12 rockets in a minute.

[...]Since an Aug. 14 cease-fire, 23 people have been killed in southern Lebanon by explosions of cluster bomblets, according to the UN Mine Action Coordination Center. Unexploded ordnance, most of it cluster munitions, wounded 136 people, the center said.

Detonated when picked up by curious children or when accidentally touched by farmers in fields and groves, the bomblets have turned large areas into the equivalent of minefields, threatening harvesting and grazing and hindering the return of thousands of people to their homes.

Many bomblets found in villages and on roads.

In response to earlier queries about the cluster bombs, the Israeli army said in a statement that the munitions are "legal under international law and their use conforms with international standards."

However, the findings of an initial inquiry by a senior army officer indicated that the cluster munitions, delivered by rockets or artillery, were directed at civilian areas in violation of orders from the army command, have been and houses military officials said.[...]

The Palestinian Arabs in words and deeds have made it clear that they seek the removal of Israel and are willing to continue to kill Israelis until they obtain what they seek.

The Israelis on the otherhand in words and deeds have frequently offered the Palestinian Arabs the opportunity to peacefully coexist with Israel free of the Palestinian Arab deliberate killing of Israelis and free of Israeli retaliation for past Palestinian Arab deliberate killing of Israelis. In support of their offers, the Israelis have frequently stopped killing Palestinian Arabs for long periods of time even while the Palestinians continued to kill Israelis.

This problem is due principally to the belief by the Palestinian Arabs that they have an inherent right to govern all of Palestine, while the Israelis believe they have a legal right to govern a specific part of Palestine.

EXCERPTS FROM THE KORAN

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Chapter 4: The Women : 4.89: They desire that you should disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so that you might be (all) alike; therefore take not from among them friends until they fly (their homes) in Allah's way; but if they turn back, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and take not from among them a friend or a helper.


Chapter 4: The Women : 4.91: You will find others who desire that they should be safe from you and secure from their own people; as often as they are sent back to the mischief they get thrown into it headlong; therefore if they do not withdraw from you, and (do not) offer you peace and restrain their hands, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them; and against these We have given you a clear authority.

Chapter 2: The Cow : 2.191: And kill them wherever you find them, and drive them out from whence they drove you out, and persecution is severer than slaughter, and do not fight with them at the Sacred Mosque until they fight with you in it, but if they do fight you, then slay them; such is the recompense of the unbelievers.

Chapter 9: The Immunity : 9.5: So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captives and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush, then if they repent and keep up prayer and pay the poor-rate, leave their way free to them; surely Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.