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2023-12-15 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Twelve Palestinians killed, West Bank mosque desecrated during Israel raids UPDATE: Israel wraps up 60-hour battle in Jenin

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Posted by Fred 2023-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 I seem to remember...
From 2 April to 10 May 2002, the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the West Bank was besieged by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), targeting suspected Palestinian militants who had taken shelter in the church.

As part of Operation Defensive Shield, the IDF occupied Bethlehem and attempted to capture suspected Palestinian militants.[4] Dozens of them fled into the Church of the Nativity and sought refuge. IDF surrounded the site and besieged the suspected militants and non-militants at the site, which included approximately 200 monks resident in the church and other Palestinians who had arrived at the site for other reasons. The Franciscan Order maintained no hostages were held, while Israeli sources claimed the monks and others were being held hostage by gunmen.[5]

After 39 days, an agreement was reached, according to which the militants turned themselves in to Israel and were exiled to Europe and the Gaza Strip.

On 10 May, the thirteen men left the church, and were taken to Ben Gurion International Airport in an armored bus, where a Royal Air Force transport plane awaited to take them to Cyprus. They were greeted by Sherard Cowper-Coles, the British Ambassador to Israel, thirty members of the Royal Military Police, and a Royal Air Force doctor.[33] They laid down their arms to the IDF behind a curtain, to avoid the photographers. They were denied permission to meet with their families before their exile.[10]

A total of 8 Palestinians had been killed, and an Armenian monk was also wounded.[3] Israeli riot police reported finding 40 explosive devices which had been left in the church by the Palestinians, several of them booby-trapped. In the parking lot beneath the Peace Center, Israeli soldiers had caused heavy damage to dozens of cars. Soldiers also vandalized Arafat's office in the presidential palace in the city.[10]

As for damage to the cultural heritage site, ICOMOS estimated the damage at a total of US$1.4 million, primarily grades 3 and 4, and loss in urban furniture. Direct damage to the church complex from projectiles and fire was estimated to total about US$77,000.[34]

So cry me a fuckin' river, Paleo bitches

Posted by Frank G 2023-12-15 10:30|| 2023-12-15 10:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Frank, I seem to remember that the Palestinians also used pages from bibles as toilet paper. Imagine the uproar if Christians, or worse, Jews had done the same thing to a Koran.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2023-12-15 10:55|| 2023-12-15 10:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Think of each mosque as FB Mohamed.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-12-15 12:54|| 2023-12-15 12:54|| Front Page Top

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