Special Report 143pdf
Special Report 143pdf
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  1. Special Report 143On August 27, Israel troops rescued 52 year old Qaid Farhan Alkadi, an Israeli Arab abducted by Hamas and held for 325 days. He was mistreated as were other abductees, one of whom was 86 year old Arye Zalmanovitch, pictured below, whom they filmed as he lay beside Alkadi, dying for lack of his regular medications. He wasthen shot by Hamas militantswho could not wait until he died. Alkadi was first moved from one home to another, then from one tunnel to another, fed a few dates and bread every few daysand tortured as were other abductees. Shot in the leg, the bullet was removed without anesthesia. His captors heard Israel’s troops drawing near and fled, leaving him in the tunnel after telling him it was booby-trapped. Afraid to set off an explosion andleft in total darkness, he waited until he heard voices looking for him. Israel’s most elite troops are engaged in the search for abductees. He was able to provide Israeli troops with important information.Alkadi was airlifted to a hospital, where he underwent medical examination, was cared for and united with his overjoyed family. He lost over 40 pounds.In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal writes:“The headlines say Israel freed another hostage held by Hamas this week, but the reports often failed to note that QaidFarhan Al-Qadi is . . . an Arab-Israeli Muslim. The human detailexplains much about the Jewish state, its terrorist enemy in Gaza, and the nature of this war. Mr. Al-Qadi is a father of 11 who was working at a kibbutz when Hamas kidnapped him on Oct. 7. He is a Bedouin Arab, like at least 17 other Israelis, including six children, who were killed by Hamas that day. One was Awad Darawshe, a 23-year-old Muslim paramedic who wouldn’t flee the Nova music festival. None of this fits the stereotype in some Western precincts that Israel is an apartheid state rooted in
  2. ethnic hatred. That description applies to Hamas, which could have released Mr. Al-Qadi, as its Palestinian brother, at any time. It didn’t, for two reasons. “First, Hamas doesn’t mind the sacrifice of Palestinians if it serves its jihadist purposes. Hamas’s planners knew the Oct. 7 massacre was going to start a war Hamas couldn’t win and bring down a calamity on the people of Gaza. That was the plan. As IsmailHaniyeh, the Hamas leader recently assassinated in Tehran, put it on Oct. 26, “We are the ones who need this blood, so it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit. Second, Hamas also considered Mr. Al-Qadi an asset it could trade to Israel for the release of many terrorists. Despite everything Hamas says and does, it knows Israel prizes the lives of all its citizens, including Muslims, and would release murderers of Jews to free them. While Hamas and its Western fellow travelers cast Israel as evil incarnate, Hamas hustles to take advantage of Israel’s basic decency. “Descending into a Hamas tunnel, where Mr. Al-Qadi was held, is as dangerous a military mission as one can undertake. But it’s no surprise that elite Israeli soldiers would take the risk to themselves to rescue the hostages, whether Jew or Arab. At least four other Muslim Israelis remain in Hamas captivity 10 months later, and Israeli soldiers would risk their lives to rescue them as they did to free Mr. Al-Qadi”. On the following Wednesday, Israeli troops retrieved another body of a soldier killed on October 7 and taken to Gaza to serve as a bargaining chip.*As you will have learned, Israel pre-empted Hezbollah’s promised attack and, 15 minutes before rockets were programmed to be launched against Israel, hundreds of them nd their launching pads were destroyed by Israel’s air force. The implications of Israel’s success prevention are far reaching. They notonly proveIsrael’s capacity to destroy rocket launchers; they indicate the extent to which Israel knows exactly where those launchers are, which of them were primed to be fired and at what time they were tobe fired. Indeed, the Israeli Defense Forces later announced the rockets’ various targets. Despite Israel’s colossal intelligence failure on October 7 of last year, itsintelligence forces have obviously recouped and once again shown their prowess.The stymying of Hezbollah’s retaliatory attack, the systematic assassination of its leadingfield commanders and the assassination of its senior military commandersent Hezbollah into a tail spin, seeking to discover the extent of its transparency to Israel and its consequent vulnerability and block it, at the same time, forcedto fill the ranks of experienced commanders with less experienced ones.Israel still awaits Iran’s promised retaliatory attack following the assassination of Hamas’s Ismail Haniye in Teheran. The US warned Iran against sparking a regional war.Israel warned Iran that any attack would be meet with a furious response that could significantly affect vital Iranianmilitary and economic assets. Iran has a threadbare air force equipped with aged fighter planes and very scarce air defenses. Its oil industry –the mainstay of its economy –is especially exposed. Israel’s earlier response to Iran’s barrage of missiles served as a warning: it destroyed an advanced air defense system positioned to defenda strategic nuclear site in Iran.*On the night between ThursdayandFriday, Israeli troops intervened when a group of Hamas militants took control of a humanitarian convey. The troops killed some of the militants, freed the convey and enabled it to proceed to its intended destination.Israel will undertake a three day ceasefire, each time in a different area of Gaza, to enable the World Health Organization to vaccinate residents, especially children,against polio and other diseases.*
  3. Our hearts bleed for the civilians in Gaza, forced by Hamas’s to constantly move from one safe zone to another under increasingly difficult circumstances. Each time they move, Hamas establishes itself among them and attacks Israeli forces, leaving the IDF little choice but to evacuate the civilians again, destroy military infrastructure and root out the militants. Likewise, Israeli abductees are premeditatedly held in orvery proximate to civilian areas, inviting IDF operationsthat will cause civilian casualties –the more the better.Hamas is not only present in Gaza; it has asignificant presence in the West Bank and, with Iran’s active help,is trying to set the West Bank aflame. Following a botched suicide bombing in Tel-Avivby a bomber directed from the West Bank, The IDF launched a major ground and air operation. Scores of Hamas militants have been arrested or killed, weapons stashes and large quantities of explosives seized, bomb-making workshops destroyed,and documents taken. The revealthe wide extent towhich Iran is involved in funding terror activity in the area, providing training, know-how, weapons, munitions and explosives, andguiding the attacks.*Amit Friedman, the grandson of very close friends of mineand the son of a friendwas killed in Gaza on WednesdayAugust 27.He was 19 years old.
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