About 10% of rocket launches have been unsuccessful, according to their analysis. Moreover, the percentage of failed launches has been increasing in recent days: 25% on 10/14, 18% on 10/18.
Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, Al Ahli Hospital, blame Israel, collateral damage, failed rockets, gaza, Islamic Jihad war crimes, Meir Amit Center
About 10% of rocket launches have been unsuccessful, according to their analysis. Moreover, the percentage of failed launches has been increasing in recent days: 25% on 10/14, 18% on 10/18.
- Sunday, October 22, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 07Oct23, Al Ahli Hospital, Al Haq, failed rockets, Forensic Architecture, Gaza Platform, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad war crimes, NGO lies
3D analysis shows patterns of radial fragmentation on the southwest side of the impact crater, as well as a shallow channel leading into the crater from the northeast. Such patterns indicate a likely projectile trajectory with northeast origins.In reviewing our analysis, investigator & explosive weapons expert @CobbSmith agrees the fragmentation patterns may indicate the projectile came from the northeast—the direction of the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza perimeter—and not from the west, as claimed by the IOF.
Our/@CobbSmith’s analysis of the crater size suggests a munition larger than eg a Spike or Hellfire missile commonly used by IOF drones. It is more consistent w/ the impact marks from an artillery shell—but w/o additional material evidence, we cannot make a definitive assessment.
@earshot_ngo analysed the recording released by IOF officials of an alleged exchange between members of Hamas implicating the Islamic Jihad in the attack. They found that the recording was manipulated and therefore not a credible source of evidence:
...A conclusive investigation into this attack requires full access to the site and munition fragments, as well as witness interviews. We continue our work on this case, and reaffirm our solidarity with Palestinian people under attack, including our friends & colleagues.
Cobb-Smith said that the conflagration following the blast was inconsistent with an artillery strike, but that it could not be entirely ruled out.
Wednesday, January 04, 2023
- Wednesday, January 04, 2023
- Ian
- apartheid lies, failed rockets, Fatah, Freedom of Expression, Har haBayit, iran, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Jenin, Jerusalem Post, Jordan, Linkdump, Masafer Yatta, Nablus, PMW, Temple Mount, UAE, UN, UNRWA hate, Yisrael Medad
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can't be solved, only ended - opinion
It’s not about what Israel does, but about what Israel is and represents. That’s why many oppose Israel and support its enemies.UNRWA paving the road to conflict
Attempts to find “solutions” were based on leftist assumptions that in order to have peace, Israel must make compromises and concessions. This was the basis of the Oslo Accords that legitimized the PLO and created the Palestinian Authority. The “peace process” was a hoax, a hype to bring Arafat and the PLO back to Israel and empower them.
This confused way of thinking persists. It is the basis of what is called the “two-state-solution,” (2SS) an independent Arab Palestinian state based on the 1949 Armistice lines, and support for United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
In response to threats from the EU, UN, and even the Biden administration, Israel concedes, which always leads to more problems. The IDF, COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) and police destroyed Jewish property for no rational reason and restrict building in settlements. Israeli leaders (including Netanyahu) went along with the fraud of trying to appease the Palestinians and those who supported them. Why should this absurdity continue? Who does it serve?
Jews who live in Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem are not “occupying Palestinian territory.” It is not “illegal,” and there is no basis for this accusation. Jews should be protected and encouraged wherever they live. That’s what Zionism means. That’s what the new government will hopefully do. Some are opposed, and some call for a “civil war.”
Our recent elections indicated that most Israelis want a realistic agenda that ensures their safety and security. Dealing with Palestinian terrorism is our first and foremost concern, and – as many understand, the PA/Hamas are unwilling and unable to stop it. Palestinian identity was and is based on a “one-state solution” – “from the river to the sea.” This goal, enabled and facilitated by the Oslo Accords, is why resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains elusive.
The most practical and realistic alternative to the 2SS is to recognize Jordan as the homeland of the Palestinians – all of those who want to live in peace. Engaging in and supporting terrorism and seeking Israel’s destruction is simply not an option. The conflict cannot be resolved, but it can be ended by understanding why it exists.
The 67 nations and 33 agencies which aid UNWRA do not demand a change in its policies that support the perpetuation of conflict. Op-ed.Iran vows response to Khamenei cartoons in French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo
Realizing the extent of incitement in UNRWA schools and summer camps, the Trump administration cut US funding to UNWRA in 2018 for lack of “accountability.” The Biden administration has resumed funding but only under the condition that its education curriculum is for peace.
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the UN, Gilad Erdan called for “countries to freeze contributions until UNRWA teachers expressing support terror are fired”. But the funding continues.
In 1967, following Israel’s victory in the Six Day War, when the IDF took control of the Arab populations of Judea and Samaria and Gaza, school textbooks used by Palestinian Arabs rejected Israel’s existence and incited violence. But, then placed under Israeli administration of COGAT,(Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories), new text books were implemented.
However, the signing of the Oslo accords on September 13, 1993, which would give the Palestinian Authority control over education in territories which they administered as a result of the agreements, saw a steady deterioration in the curriculum. Incitement to violence against Israel again abounded in what was supposed to be the beginnings of a process of reconciliation. With the OSLO Accords came the deterioration of UNWRA sponsored institutions, as anti-Israel propaganda proliferated in the territories.
Since Oslo, donor countries have not demanded accountability. Journalist, David Bedein who heads the Israel Resource News Agency and the author of ‘UNRWA Roadblock to Peace’, stated that when he posed the question to thirty-five of the sixty-seven nation which fund UNRWA, as to how they track the funds and where they are going, “they replied that they rely upon the rigorous oversight of UNRWA.”
Today, UNRWA facilities primes tomorrow’s generation for conflict. UNRWA should be seeking real solutions to what was the rejection by Arab nations of the partition of the land in 1947, according to UN resolution 181. Their leaders’ statements denying culpability belies their agenda, which is to allow perpetuation of conflict and the continued hope by Palestinian Arabs to flood Israel with refugees.
Iran warned France on Wednesday it would respond after “insulting” cartoons depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei were published in the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The weekly had published dozens of cartoons on the same day ridiculing the highest religious and political figure in the Islamic Republic.
The magazine said the cartoons were part of a competition it launched in December in support of the protests triggered by the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurd who was arrested for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.
“The insulting and indecent act of a French publication in publishing cartoons against the religious and political authority will not go without an effective and decisive response,” tweeted Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.
“We will not allow the French government to go beyond its bounds. They have definitely chosen the wrong path.”
The French magazine said the contest aimed “to support the struggle of Iranians who are fighting for their freedom.”
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
- Tuesday, December 20, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- failed rockets, Hezbollah, IDF, iran, Syria, Syrian Observatory of Human Rights
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reports:
Two unidentified gunmen, likely to belong to Lebanese Hezbollah, were killed due to the Israeli attacks near Damascus International Airport and the vicinity of Damascus, where the attacks targeted a Hezbollah warehouse containing weapons and logistic materials in a farm located between Al-Saida Zainab and Al-Bajdaliyah, destroying it completely, amid reports of more casualties in the site.Israel fired four missiles on positions of Iranian militias in the vicinity of Damascus International Airport and farms in Al-Saida Zainab area in Rif Dimashq, where ambulance vehicles rushed to the site. However, no casualties were reported.
SOHR documented 32 airstrikes and ground rocket attacks since the beginning of 2022, during which Israel targeted several positions in Syria, destroying nearly 90 targets, including buildings, warehouses, headquarters, centres, and vehicles. These strikes killed 85 military personnel and injured 115 others, as well as injury of 23 civilians, including a little girl and at least three women.The deaths were as follows:• Two Iranian officers operating under the banner of Al-Quds Corps.• Ten Iranian-backed Syrian fighters.• 29 Iranian-backed fighters of non-Syrian nationality.• 36 Soldiers and air defence officers of regime forces.• Eight collaborators with Lebanese Hezbollah.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2022
- Tuesday, September 06, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- blame Israel, double standards, failed rockets, gaza, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Jihad war crimes, media bias, Operation Breaking Dawn, Palestinians, PIJ, UN OCHA
During the escalation, 49 Palestinians were killed in the Gaza Strip, of whom at least 22 were civilians, including 17 children and four women, according to OHCHR.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
- Sunday, August 14, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- Amira Hass, civilian casualties, failed rockets, gaza, Haaretz, Islamic Jihad, Jabalia, James Zogby, Operation Breaking Dawn, PIJ
Despite Palestinian media attributing all deaths to Israeli attacks, Gazans know well that a very high number of victims stemmed from failed rocket launches by Islamic Jihad.The high number of fatalities from so-called internal fire has embittered Palestinians, some Gazans told Haaretz.
Friday, August 12, 2022
- Friday, August 12, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- casualty list, civilian casualties, failed rockets, gaza, Islamic Jihad, Operation Breaking Dawn, PIJ
1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza. |
With PIJ |
2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza. | PIJ |
3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City. | PIJ |
4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza. | PIJ |
5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City. | With PIJ |
6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza. | Likely tank fire ("artillery shell"), see below |
7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers. | PIJ |
8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis. | PIJ |
9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis. | PIJ |
10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip. | PIJ |
11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana. | PIJ |
12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila. | PIJ |
13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia. | PIJ/DFLP |
14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia. | Unclear, IDF may have targeted a car nearby |
15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 Jabalia | Likely IDF (Qassam Brigades) |
16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed. | Jabalia rocket |
22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal, 36 Rafah. | PIJ |
24- Muhammad Iyad Hassouna, 14 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
25- Ismail Abdel Hamid Mohamed Salameh, 30 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
26- Hana Ismail Ali Salameh, 51, Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
27- Rafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, 45, Rafah. | PIJ |
28- Khaled Saeed Mansour 47 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
29- Alaa Saleh Al-Tahrawi, 30, Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
30- Ahmad Muhammad Afana, 31, Jabalia. | Hamas, killed by falling wall after PIJ rocket attack |
31- Dia Zuhair Al-Borai, 30 Jabalia. | Rocket (House in Jabalia) |
32- Jamil Ehab Najm 15 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)* |
33- Jamil Najm Najm 6 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)* |
34- Nazmi Fayez Abu Karsh 16 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)* |
35- Hamed Haider Najm 17 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)* |
36-Mohamed Salah Najm 17 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery)* |
37- Muhammad Yasser Nimr Al-Nabahin 13 | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
38- Ahmed Yasser Nimr Al Nabahin 9 Al-Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
39- Dalia Yasser Nimr Al Nabaheen 13 Al Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
40 - Yasser Nimr Mahmoud Al Nabahin 45 Al-Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij), Hamas police |
41 - Khaled Ayman Yassin, 27 Zaytoun | IDF attack - Fatah operative |
42- Shady Emad Nimr Kahil, 27 Zaytoun | IDF attack - Hamas municipal worker with #41 |
43- Abd al-Rahman Jum’ah al-Silk 19 al-Shuja’iyya. | Apparent IDF attack |
44- Mahmoud Daoud in Gaza | Apparent IDF attack, Hamas policeman |
45- Haneen Walid Abu Qaida, 10 | Unclear, see #14 |
46- Fatima Obaid, 15 | Rocket (Beit Hanoun) |
47- Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, Beit Hanoun | Apparently killed with #15 |
48- Lian Al-Shaer, 10 | Attack that killed PIJ members 8 and 9 above. |
49- Anas Khaled Anshasi | Member of Salafist group, probably targeted by IDF |
- Friday, August 12, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, blood libel, civilian casualties, DCI-P, double standards, failed rockets, gaza, human shields, Islamic Jihad, pchr, PIJ, The Laws of Armed Conflict, UNHCR
The Fallujah cemetery in Jabalya, where 5 children were killed by an Islamic Jihad rocket. Note the spray pattern of tiny holes from the shrapnel that PIJ uses to maximize death and damage. |
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, 47 Palestinians were killed during the offensive, including 16 children and four women, and 360 others were injured, including 151 children and 58 women. Eighteen residential units were destroyed, while dozens of others were partially damaged.Al Mezan’s fieldwork team works to document and investigate every single act of hostilities that occurred in the Gaza Strip and has so far verified the killing of 27 Palestinians and the complete destruction of 12 homes by Israeli forces. Al Mezan continues to conduct its own independent field investigations and collect information on all incidents of killing and damaging or destruction of houses, property, and other civilian objects in Gaza.
UN Human Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet today expressed alarm at the high number of Palestinians, including children, killed and injured in the occupied Palestinian territory this year, including in intense hostilities between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in Gaza last weekend.The civilian cost of the latest escalation in Gaza from 5-7 August was heavy. The UN Human Rights Office has verified that among the 48 Palestinians killed, there were at least 22 civilians, including 17 children and four women. The status of 22 fatalities remains undetermined....In violation of international humanitarian law, Palestinian armed groups also launched hundreds of rockets and mortars in indiscriminate attacks, causing civilian casualties and damage to civilian objects in Israel as well as in Gaza.
Thursday, August 11, 2022
- Thursday, August 11, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- Beit Hanoun, civilian casualties, DCI-P, failed rockets, gaza, human shields, Hussein Taha, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Jabalia, jabalya, Jabari, Khan Younis, Operation Breaking Dawn, PIJ, Rafah
Israeli forces killed three Palestinian children in three separate airstrikes between August 5–7, according to information collected by DCIP, while DCIP field researchers continue to investigate four other incidents where 13 Palestinian children were killed.
DCIP is still investigating the source of four explosions across the Gaza Strip that killed another 13 Palestinian children. Each explosion coincided with Israeli drones flying over the areas as well as the launches of rockets from Palestinian armed groups.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
- Wednesday, August 10, 2022
- Varda Meyers Epstein (Judean Rose)
- Al Jazeera, civilian casualties, Daled Amos, failed rockets, gaza, human shields, Israel, Jabalia, jabalya, Judean Rose, media bias, Operation Breaking Dawn, Opinion, PIJ, tsunami of lies, Varda
The footage of the Islamic Jihad rocket doubling back on
Jabaliya was like something out of a Cecil B. DeMille movie. Except that it
was real. The rocket begins its journey; its target, Israeli civilians. Then,
all of a sudden, with a “whoosh,” the rocket reverses course, as if the hand of
God itself were guiding it away from the Jewish people (or perhaps playing
boomerang). In the background, we hear the Muezzin’s eerie call to prayer
blaring from the loudspeakers. It seems a kind of judgment, a biblical moment—one
the media does not want to own.
Columnist Daled
Amos contends that Israel did a great job getting the truth of the Jabaliya
story out to the media. As a result, he says, “Israel was able not only to
present its case that it was not responsible, but also to get the media to
present a balanced report that presented Israel's contention that the explosion
was the result of a misfired rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad.”
Daled Amos is right on the mark. For a change, Israel got
ahead of the propaganda machine. This time, the Jewish State was quick to
supply verifiable facts and footage to show the truth of what had happened: An
Islamic Jihad rocket, launched in the direction of Israel with the intention of
murdering as many Jewish civilians as possible, misfired and murdered 7 Gaza
residents, including 4 children. In other words, Islamic Jihad terrorists tried
to kill Jews, but murdered their own, instead.
Daled Amos is also correct in stating that as a result of
Israel’s speedy proactive response, the media presented a more balanced
account. But perhaps balance was not what was needed here. When there are
verifiable facts and footage, it’s not a case of he said/she said, but documenting
what happened for posterity.
We know what happened on D-Day, at Pearl Harbor, in Gettysburg. Some things are
just not in dispute. The rocket attack on Jabaliya is such an event, something
that should be recorded as military history. Yet CNN,
for example has the Palestinian Health Ministry saying one thing, and Israel
saying another (emphasis added):
In one incident Saturday, four children were among seven people killed in an explosion in Jabaliya. The Palestinian Health Ministry initially said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike. Israel rejected the claim and said it was the result of errant rocket fire, and released a video showing what it said was the Islamic Jihad rocket sharply changing course in the air and hitting the building.
Instead of this balanced report, why not a factual report on
what happened on August 6th? “Today in Gaza, an Islamic Jihad rocket
misfired, killing seven people in Jabaliya, including 4 children.”
That would have been the unvarnished truth. But reporting
the truth is apparently not a CNN value.
CNN would rather hedge, presenting
the story as a case of competing narratives, under the pretense of “balance.” Forced
by facts to exonerate Israel, CNN
instead chooses to leave things fuzzy, to leave the reader thinking, “Who knows
what really happened? But it was probably that &*$@*%^ Israel, again.”
In other words, the balance is not balance, but a calculated
lie, so that even if you know the facts, you begin to question them. The
purpose of the lie, of course, is to minimize anything that makes Islamic Jihad
look bad: “Yes, they’re terrorists, but they’re OUR terrorists.”
Why? Because Gaza is the darling of the wokerati, while Israel is the object of
their hate. So minimize, minimize, and minimize the damage some more, and find
a way to “balance” things out.
It’s not only CNN,
of course. Daled Amos cited many similar reports, including this one from the NY
Times (emphasis added):
Three children were also killed on Saturday, though it was not immediately clear whether they were hit by an Israeli strike or a misfired Palestinian rocket. The Israeli military said they were killed by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch.
Instead of reporting the story as is, the NY Times tells its readership that it’s not clear who killed the 7, Israel or the Arab IJ terrorists. But it IS clear. Today, everything is verifiable. People have phones. They love to record rocket attacks and share the clips on social.
The Israeli military didn’t “say” it was
a failed Islamic Jihad rocket launch. They proved it. But that’s not how the NY Times chose to report the story. Why
exonerate Israel, when you can leave the story fuzzy around the edges, ripe for
interpretation and as fodder for the anti-Israel propaganda machine?
The AP,
as cited by Daled Amos, begins with the same “balanced” narrative (emphasis
added):
The Israeli military said an errant rocket fired by Palestinian militants killed civilians late Saturday, including children, in the town of Jabaliya, in northern Gaza. The military said it investigated the incident and concluded ‘without a doubt’ that it was caused by a misfire on the part of Islamic Jihad. There was no official Palestinian comment on the incident.
This, however, turned out to be not ambiguous enough for the AP. So they did an about-face
(much like that IJ rocket) in a subsequent report containing no allegations or reports of a
misfire at all. Instead, the new report mentions an “Israeli offensive,” leaving
the impression that Israel is somehow responsible for the Jabaliya dead
(emphasis added):
Two other militants and five civilians also were killed in the attack, bringing the Palestinian death toll to 31 since the start of the Israeli offensive Friday. Among the dead were six children and four women. The Palestinian Health Ministry said more than 250 people were wounded since Friday.
It is easy to rationalize "balanced" reporting on Israel. One might reason that balance is a whole lot better than the out-and-out shameless lies of Al Jazeera:
Al Jazeera flat out lying.
— Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר (@emilykschrader) August 6, 2022
The “massacre” was the result of Palestinian terrorist rockets misfiring and killing their OWN citizens including children. pic.twitter.com/gAfLgfRZWs
But the lies of Al
Jazeera are not worse, only different. Lies can be blatant or come
disguised as “balance.” In the end, lies are lies.
Why would the media lie? In the case of Jabaliya, reporting the
facts makes Israel out to be the good guy. As the media well knows, however, a bit
of balance can go a long way toward making it seem otherwise.
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- Wednesday, August 10, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- "As-a-Jew", anti-Israel, anti-Zionism, failed rockets, gaza, International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine, Islamic Jihad, Israel, Jew in Name Only, JINO, Operation Breaking Dawn, PIJ
We, member groups of the International Jewish Collective for Justice in Palestine, are filled with sorrow and outrage at Israel’s unprovoked aerial bombardment of the community of Gaza, Palestine. We condemn it and its dishonest rhetoric.This is not a dispute between two sides. An occupying military is attacking an occupied, blockaded community. Israel called this a ‘pre-emptive’ assault, although it provided no evidence for its just-in-case bombardment of crowded cities. Israel has no legal right to military aggression to bolster a blockade which is, itself, in violation of law. This has nothing to do with Israel’s self-defense. We saw with our eyes that it is occupied Gaza that needs defense, and has the right to defend itself.
In three days, Israel killed 44 Palestinians including 15 children, and wounded 350. Scores of Gazan families are homeless and 650 homes were damaged in just the first 24 hours. No Israelis were killed.
By the time this statement came out, even Palestinians knew quite well that many of the dead came from Islamic Jihad rockets. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights counts 27 dead, because it knows that most of the children killed were killed by the terror groups. And many of those 27 were killed by terrorist rockets as well that PCHR doesn't admit.
Israel chose to attack a besieged community on Tisha B’Av – a day when Jews lament our losses by siege, two thousand years ago. This choice shames the religion that Israel appropriates to launder the image of its settler colonialist project.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2022
- Tuesday, August 09, 2022
- Elder of Ziyon
- civilian casualties, failed rockets, gaza, hamas, Hassan Mansour, human rights crime, human shields, Islamic Jihad, Israel, mashup, Operation Breaking Dawn, PIJ, Poster
Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent reporting by The Associated Press.
No one in Gaza with direct knowledge of the explosions in question was willing to speak about them publicly. But live TV footage showed militant rockets falling short in densely packed residential neighborhoods. And AP visits to the sites of two explosions that killed a total of 12 people lent support to suspicions they were caused by rockets that went off course.
Islamic Jihad said 12 of its fighters were killed, a smaller armed group said it lost a fighter, and Hamas said two Hamas-affiliated policemen who did not take part in the fighting were killed. Israel said it killed at least 20 militants and seven civilians.
On Saturday night, seven Palestinians were killed in a blast in the crowded Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Israeli military said it carried out no operations in the area at the time. It released video footage purportedly showing a barrage of militant rockets, with one falling short.
Islamic Jihad had announced a rocket attack on the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, just north of Jebaliya, at around the same time as the explosion.
Video footage of the aftermath circulated online, showing what appeared to be a rocket casing sticking out of the ground on a narrow, busy street. When the AP visited the site on Monday, the casing was gone and the hole had been filled in with dirt. Palestinians are usually keen to display evidence of Israeli airstrikes to international media.
Al-Mezan attributed the blast to a “projectile,” and the PCHR said it was still investigating.
On Sunday night, an explosion killed five Palestinians ages 4 to 17 at a cemetery in Jebaliya, also around the same time Islamic Jihad announced a barrage of rockets. The Israeli military said it was investigating.
Visiting both sites in Jebaliya, the AP saw none of the telltale signs of an Israeli strike — the wide craters left by F-16s or the narrow holes caused by drone strikes.
In a third suspicious explosion, one of the Hamas-affiliated policemen, who was off-duty, was killed Sunday along with three of his young children in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Hamas, a far more powerful militant group that has fought four wars with Israel, stayed out of the latest fighting, and Israel appears to have been careful not to target it.
I haven't yet identified the "smaller armed group" terrorist AP references. (UPDATE: Adin Haykin mentions that Hassan Mansour was also claimed by the DFLP as well as Islamic Jihad.)
It hadn't occurred to me that the Hamas policeman who was killed with his children was killed by rocket fire. This means that, based on my research, 14 children were killed - and 11 of them by rocket fire! (Two were human shields, one was killed near a wedding that is still unclear.)
It is clear from this article that not only does the Hamas-based health ministry lie about people killed by terror rockets - so do the "human rights" NGOs. If they don't claim someone was killed by Israel, then certainly that person was killed by a rocket, but they won't report it.
The human rights of those Gazans don't matter.
Here is my updated list of people killed in Gaza and whether they were killed by Israel or Islamic Jihad rockets:
1- Imad Abd al-Rahim Shallah, 50 Gaza. |
With PIJ |
2- Youssef Salman Qaddoum 24 Gaza. | PIJ |
3- Tayseer Mahmoud Al-Jabari, 50 Gaza City. | PIJ |
4- Salama Muharib Abed 41 Gaza. | PIJ |
5- Alaa Abdullah Qaddoum, 5 Gaza City. | With PIJ |
6- Donyana Adnan Attia Al-Amour 22 Gaza. | Likely rocket ("artillery shell") |
7- Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun, 26 Al-Nada Towers. | PIJ |
8- Fadl Mustafa Zorob 30 Khan Younis. | PIJ |
9- Muhammad Hassan Al-Bayouk, 35, Khan Younis. | PIJ |
10- Ahmed Mazen Azzam, 25 Gaza Strip. | PIJ |
11- Tamim Ghassan Abdullah Hijazi, 23 Al-Zana. | PIJ |
12- Osama Abdul Rahman Al-Suri, 27, Bani Suhaila. | PIJ |
13- Hassan Mohamed Mansour, 26, Jabalia. | PIJ/DFLP |
14- Naama Muhammad Abu Qaida 62 Jabalia. | Apparent rocket(wedding) |
15- Nour El-Din Ali Al-Zubaidi 19 Jabalia | Likely IDF (Qassam Brigades) |
16- Hazem Muhammad Salem 12 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
17- Ahmad Muhammad Al-Nayrab 13 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
18- Moamen Muhammad Al-Nairab 4 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
19 - Khalil Iyad Abu Hamadeh, 19, Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
20- Ahmed Walid Al-Fram, 18 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
21- Misbah al-Khatib 50 Jabalia agreed. | Jabalia rocket |
22- Muhammad Muhammad Ibrahim Zaqout 19 Jabalia. | Jabalia rocket |
23- Ziad Ahmed Al Mudallal, 36 Rafah. | PIJ |
24- Muhammad Iyad Hassouna, 14 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
25- Ismail Abdel Hamid Mohamed Salameh, 30 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
26- Hana Ismail Ali Salameh, 51, Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
27- Rafat Saleh Ibrahim Al-Zamili, 45, Rafah. | PIJ |
28- Khaled Saeed Mansour 47 Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
29- Alaa Saleh Al-Tahrawi, 30, Rafah. | With PIJ in Rafah |
30- Ahmad Muhammad Afana, 31, Jabalia. | Hamas (but not target) |
31- Dia Zuhair Al-Borai, 30 Jabalia. | Rocket (House in Jabalia) |
32- Jamil Ehab Najm 15 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery) |
33- Jamil Najm Najm 6 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery) |
34- Nazmi Fayez Abu Karsh 16 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery) |
35- Hamed Haider Najm 17 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery) |
36-Mohamed Salah Najm 17 Jabalia. | Rocket (Fallujah cemetery) |
37- Muhammad Yasser Nimr Al-Nabahin 13 | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
38- Ahmed Yasser Nimr Al Nabahin 9 Al-Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
39- Dalia Yasser Nimr Al Nabaheen 13 Al Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij) |
40 - Yasser Nimr Mahmoud Al Nabahin 45 Al-Bureij. | Rocket (Al Bureij), Hamas police |
41 - Khaled Ayman Yassin, 27 Zaytoun | Apparent IDF attack |
42- Shady Emad Nimr Kahil, 27 Zaytoun | Apparent IDF attack on municipal worker |
43- Abd al-Rahman Jum’ah al-Silk 19 al-Shuja’iyya. | Apparent IDF attack |
44- Mahmoud Daoud in Gaza | Apparent IDF attack, Hamas policeman |
45- Haneen Walid Abu Qaida, 10 | Apparent rocket (wedding) |
46- Fatima Obaid, 15 | Rocket (Beit Hanoun) |
47- Ibrahim Shehda Abu Salah, Beit Hanoun | Apparently killed with #15 |
I made a mock-up of the New York Times lampooning their front page last year where they published photos of dozens of children supposedly killed in Gaza, blaming Israel. They had never done anything like that before and they are never going to do that for these children killed by Islamic Jihad. (I've updated the data since I made this poster.)
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