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IDF holds bodies of 5 missing Islamic Jihad militants
[Ynet] After denying international efforts to help extract five missing PIJ forces of Evil believed to be trapped underground following Monday's tunnel blast, IDF reveals to be in possession of their bodies; PIJ: 'The bodies of the five deaders will not remain for long in Israel's hands. We know how to recover bodies of our people.'The bodies of the five missing Paleostinian Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... (PIJ) forces of Evil killed in the terror tunnel that the IDF blew up last Monday are being held by the IDF, it was cleared for publication Sunday evening. The IDF Spokesperson stated the bodies were located during supplementary operations to expose and thwart the terror tunnel and the operatives inside it. In response to the IDF's announcement, PIJ alluded to future kidnappings to force exchange deals for the bodies of their deceased bad boys. "The bodies of the five deaders will not remain for long in Israel's hands. We know how to recover the bodies of our people," PIJ said. "The campaign continues and will not end." PIJ has already admitted to digging the tunnel in an effort to infiltrate Israeli territory to kidnap Israeli citizens, to be exchanged‐dead or alive‐for Paleostinian forces of Evil held in Israeli prisons for security offences. On Friday, Paleostinian television network al-Quds, affiliated with Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",, reported that efforts in the Gazoo Strip to locate the bodies had been halted. al-Quds claimed in its report that Israel was trying to locate the bodies in a part of the tunnel situated on the Israeli side of the border. On Thursday, Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, petitioned the High Court to "allow Paleostinian search and rescue teams and civil defense to enter the buffer zone on the Gazoo border to extract people currently trapped underground, some 50 meters from the border fence and inside the Gazoo Strip." In its response, the state on Sunday asked the High Court to reject the petition out of hand, due to the fact "it is not relevant and the assistance requested is not relevant," because the missing faceless myrmidons have been declared dead. The state further noted that "there is operational activity that has not yet been completed. At present, IDF forces are still carrying out different operations in the field relating to the tunnel." Currently, the bodies of Lt. Hadar Goldin and Sgt. Oron Shaul are being held by Hamas in the Gazoo Strip. The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai on Thursday stressed that Israel "would not allow search efforts in the Gazoo Strip security zone without progress on the issue of Israeli POWs and MIAs." In response to COGAT's announcement, Hamas and Islamic Jihad declared the five missing faceless myrmidons were dead, bringing the corpse count to 12, with 11 others injured. "The demolished tunnel is not the only tunnel we have that crosses into Israel," Hamas said, stressing it would not provide information on Israel's MIAs and POWs in return for the five missing terrorists' bodies. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-11-06 |
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