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| Islamic Jihad gives CNN a tour of Gaza tunnel, shows off rocket launcher | |
| 2018-06-18 | |
[IsraelTimes] Defending rocket attacks on Israel, guide claims terror group never intends to target children, but 'mistakes are made'
...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... tunnel in the Gazoo Strip, as well as to training exercises during which members of the terror group showed off a rocket launcher they claimed had recently been used to fire at Israel. In a video clip published Sunday, CNN’s Ian Lee spoke with the Islamic Jihad about why it indiscriminately fires rockets at Israel and what it hopes to achieve with the attacks. Lee was blindfolded as he was brought to each location on his tour, apparently to prevent him from identifying the location. The tour, during which Lee walked with armed fighters through a tunnel "somewhere in the Gazoo Strip," came two weeks after Islamic Jihad was involved in the heaviest exchange of fire between Israel and the Gazoo Strip since the 2014 50-day war known as Operation Protective Edge. Lee described the concrete tunnel, which had the straight walls and low arched ceiling commonly seen in such passages dug by the Paleostinians, as hot and humid, saying "it feels claustrophobic." An Islamic Jihad fighter, identified only as Abu Abdallah, explained in Arabic that the tunnels are used for moving fighters so that they can "play their role and defend the Paleostinian people." The Islamic Jihad members, armed with rifles were seen crouching in the tunnel and receiving a "pep talk" from their commander. The news hound said the tunnels are also used for smuggling weapons [from Egypt] and carrying out cross-border attacks in Israel. Above ground, at another location, Abdallah showed Lee a four-barrel rocket launcher he claimed was used in the recent attacks against Israel. "The world hears the conflict only through Netanyahu’s voice," Abdallah said according to an English translation of his comments provided by CNN. "We are trying to make it hear us through the sound of these simple missiles." Three weeks ago, Islamic Jihad fired dozens of mortar shells and rockets at Israel, one of which landed next to a kindergarten, apparently in response to the Israeli army’s killing three of its members in a cross-border exchange that came amid violent border festivities between Paleostinian protesters and the IDF. Asked by Lee why Islamic Jihad fires rockets at Israel’s civilian population, Abdallah responded that "the world needs to know that the resistance never plans to target children," but that mistakes are made. "Israel is proud of its support from the United States and we are proud of Iran’s support of the Paleostinian resistance, on the moral and logistical level," he continued. "There is nothing wrong with it and that is not a secret." | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Tap into Mr. Ian Lee's phone GPS log. Bombs away. |
| Posted by: Ebboluting Hapsburg6925 2018-06-18 13:23 |
| #3 this implies that IJ has its own tunnels independent of Hamas tunnels that is certainly wrong I wonder why Hamas allowed IJ to pretend to be so important |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-06-18 12:55 |
| #2 Aiding and abetting the enemy. Isn't that treason? Where's the FCC? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-06-18 11:24 |
| #1 Confirming CNN's status. Remember, it was founded by Jane Fonda's ex: Ted Turner. Did they get on an AA gun to aim at American jets too? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-06-18 09:07 |