{"id":1976,"date":"2014-08-14T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T21:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2014-08-16T06:02:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T06:02:03","slug":"twilight-zone-of-adversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/twilight-zone-of-adversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel in a Twilight Zone of Adversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Esther Korson
\n\"Twilight\"<\/a>
\nToday, the 39th day of \u201cOperation Protective Edge,\u201d is the last day of a 72 hour truce.\u00a0 There is no way to know as yet whether or not the truce will be extended\u2014Hamas continues to insist that it will begin firing rockets again\u2014but whatever happens, I\u2019d like to share some things with you about this conflict.\u00a0 It may end tonight, or it may begin again after midnight.\u00a0 But here are some facts that I would like for you to know.<\/p>\n

During this time of conflict, Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations launched 3356 rockets at Israel, hoping that each rocket would kill innocent civilians.\u00a0 2648 fell within Israeli territory. with 2532 landing in open spaces (thank You, Lord!) and 116 in populated areas.\u00a0 119 launching attempts failed.\u00a0 578 missiles were intercepted over cities and communities by the Iron Dome anti-missile system.\u00a0 There were 1843 killed in Gaza.\u00a0 1068 of those Gazan casualties were terrorists. Major news networks, like BBC, New York Times and al-Jazeera have now admitted that while Hamas has tried to accuse Israel of indiscriminately killing civilians, the majority of deaths have been militant men between the ages of 20 -29 and the Hamas statistics have been false and misleading. The IDF stated that they have killed 253 Hamas operatives, 147 Islamic Jihad operatives, 65 operatives of various agencies, and 603 operatives whose exact affiliation is unknown.\u00a0 That totals 1068 terrorist deaths.\u00a0\u00a0 With the huge number of targets having been hit primarily by Israeli air and naval strikes, the number of civilians killed is amazingly low due to the care that the army has taken. Every loss of life is tragic, but most of those could have been avoided if Hamas did not cynically use civilians as human shields.<\/p>\n

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