HOW HAMAS, HIZBALLAH AND IRAN ARE CAUSING ALL THE CIVILIAN DEATHS IN GAZA

NYTIMES: A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery

Hamas, with training from Iran and Hezbollah, has used the last two years to turn Gaza into a deadly maze of tunnels, booby traps and sophisticated roadside bombs. Weapons are hidden in mosques, schoolyards and civilian houses, and the leadership’s war room is a bunker beneath Gaza’s largest hospital, Israeli intelligence officials say.

Unwilling to take Israel’s bait and come into the open, Hamas militants are fighting in civilian clothes; even the police have been ordered to take off their uniforms. The militants emerge from tunnels to shoot automatic weapons or antitank missiles, then disappear back inside, hoping to lure the Israeli soldiers with their fire.

In one apartment building in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza, Hamas set an inventive, deadly trap. According to an Israeli journalist embedded with Israeli troops, the militants placed a mannequin in a hallway off the building’s main entrance. They hoped to draw fire from Israeli soldiers who might, through the blur of night vision goggles and split-second decisions, mistake the figure for a fighter. The mannequin was rigged to explode and bring down the building.

... Civilians are warned by leaflets, loudspeakers and telephone calls to evacuate battle areas. But troops are instructed to protect themselves first and civilians second.

... Israeli press officers call the tactics of Hamas cynical, illegal and inhumane; even Israel’s critics agree that Hamas’s regular use of rockets to fire at civilians in Israel, and its use of civilians as shields in Gaza, are also violations of the rules of war. Israeli military men and analysts say that its urban guerrilla tactics, including the widespread use of civilian structures and tunnels, are deliberate and come from the Iranian Army’s tactical training and the lessons of the 2006 war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon.

• THE IDF CALLS THESE TACTICS CYNICAL BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT HIZABALLAH IS USING THEIR OWN PEOPLE AS PROPS FOR PROPAGANDA.

• BUT IT'S WORSE THAN CYNICAL; IT'S SUI-GENOCIDAL - THEY PRACTICE ISLAM AS A DEATH-WISH CULT.

• BOTTOM-LINE: ISLAM IS - TO ITS MOST DEVOUT PRACTITIONERS - A CULT WHICH LOVES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION, EVEN ITS OWN.

IF YOU WANT PEACE, THEN YOU MUST SUPPORT ERADICATING THE IRANIAN REGIME - ONCE IRAN IS LIBERATED, THEN HIZBALLAH AND HAMAS WILL COLLAPSE.