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| | [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT145 Pt145] | | [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT145 Pt145] |
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| − | The PLO pioneered the tactic of operating in civilian surroundings during the Israel–PLO War in Lebanon in 1982. Testimony of this exploitation of innocent civilians came from the Lebanese who in effect were the hostages, "Palestinian fighters took their guns placed them next to our [Lebanese civilian] homes, next to apartment blocks and hospitals and schools. At their own Ayn Hilweh camp the Palestinians actually put their guns on the roof of the hospitals."</blockquote></ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7YgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v6oFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4952,3652451&hl=en Viewpoint. Inside Lebanon: A Minister's View. Sumter Daily Item - Jan 29, 1983] | + | The PLO pioneered the tactic of operating in civilian surroundings during the Israel–PLO War in Lebanon in 1982. Testimony of this exploitation of innocent civilians came from the Lebanese who in effect were the hostages, "Palestinian fighters took their guns placed them next to our [Lebanese civilian] homes, next to apartment blocks and hospitals and schools. At their own Ayn Hilweh camp the Palestinians actually put their guns on the roof of the hospitals."</blockquote></ref><ref name=minister>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7YgiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v6oFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4952,3652451&hl=en Viewpoint. Inside Lebanon: A Minister's View. Sumter Daily Item - Jan 29, 1983] |
| − | <blockquote>We saw the PLO headquarters in Sidon, built near the town square, but underground, beneath a large and popular amusement park (complete with ferris wheel and roller coaster), '''hiding beneath the skirts of women'''.</blockquote></ref> | + | <blockquote>We saw the PLO headquarters in Sidon, built near the town square, but underground, beneath a large and popular amusement park (complete with ferris wheel and roller coaster), '''hiding beneath the skirts of women. We saw the Moslem hospital which the PLO used as an armament depot, marking their crates of live ammunition with the symbol of the Palestine Red Crescent (the local version of the Red Cross, and whose chairman is the brother of Yassar Arafat'''; most of the tragically inflated statistics on civilian casualties in Lebanon were provided by the Palestine Red Crescent issued without confirmation by the International Red Cross, which has since discovered how it was manipulated and has issued a formal retraction of the civilian casualty statistics). We talked with young men and old men in the streets of Sidon, candidly and happily. They told us how glad they are to have the Israeli army come in, how their freedom has been restored after eight years. '''They called the Israeli army "the army of liberation".''' Nowhere could we find a dissenting opinion.</blockquote></ref> |
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| | During the Israeli retaliation for the incessant rocket fire— Operation Cast Lead— Hamas operatives made several attempts to commandeer the Al-Quds Hospital's (located in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City) fleet of ambulances to move terrorists, thus copying their tactics from 2004.</blockquote> | | During the Israeli retaliation for the incessant rocket fire— Operation Cast Lead— Hamas operatives made several attempts to commandeer the Al-Quds Hospital's (located in the Tel al-Hawa neighborhood in Gaza City) fleet of ambulances to move terrorists, thus copying their tactics from 2004.</blockquote> |
| − | [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT148 pt148]</ref> | + | [https://books.google.com/books?id=trqzDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT148 pt148]</ref><ref name=minister/> |
| | * UN vehicles. | | * UN vehicles. |
| | + | <ref>Matthew Levitt (2008). "Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad." [https://books.google.com/books?id=Min9VpiravsC&pg=PA95 p. 95] |
| | + | ''Indicted in September 2002, Attalah admitted to using his U.N. vehicle on multiple occasions that summer to transport arms, explosives, and armed PRC activists.''</ref> |
| | * Media outlets.<ref>John Oliver Blames Israel for Hamas War Crimes. Emanuel Miller, HR, May 18, 2021'' | | * Media outlets.<ref>John Oliver Blames Israel for Hamas War Crimes. Emanuel Miller, HR, May 18, 2021'' |
| | See, for example, the video below of an Al-Arabiya journalist expressing shock in 2009 that Hamas fired a Grad rocket at Israel from under the building in which she was located. “They launched from under the office,” she exclaims.'' | | See, for example, the video below of an Al-Arabiya journalist expressing shock in 2009 that Hamas fired a Grad rocket at Israel from under the building in which she was located. “They launched from under the office,” she exclaims.'' |