Here’s How Israel Tries to Protect Gaza’s Civilians

Dropping leaflets, opening and protecting evacuation corridor, phoning Gazans – thee are the measures Israel is taking to protect Gazans. No other army in history has ever taken such extraordinary measures to protect the citizens of an invading enemy.

For the fourth day in a row the @IDF opened an evacuation corridor to ensure the safe passage of thousands of Gazans from northern to southern Gaza.

We will continue to take every measure possible to protect innocent lives.

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— Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) November 8, 2023

Israel dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to evacuate Gaza today. pic.twitter.com/1hAdFCsL0V

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 13, 2023

How Israel tries to protect Gaza’s civilians

Despite general media malevolence, the truth sometimes emerges

By:Melanie Phillips, November 8, 2023:

Israeli tanks protecting Gazan evacuees against Hamas attack

The BBC News website is running a story today by Alice Cuddy that describes how the Israelis rang a Gazan civilian at dawn to tell him to warn the inhabitants of three apartment blocks to evacuate because they were about to be bombed.

Mahmoud Shaheen, a dentist living in the al-Zahra neighbourhood in the north of Gaza, told the BBC that on October 19 he was called on his mobile phone by a man speaking flawless Arabic who said he was from Israeli intelligence and told him not to hang up. Shaheen said:

“He told me he wanted to bomb three towers… and ordered me to evacuate the surrounding area.”

Anxious lest this was a hoax call, Shaheen asked for warning shots to prove the caller was genuine. These duly occurred.

Now that Mahmoud knew it was real he tried to stall, asking the man to be patient. “I told him: ‘Don’t betray us and bomb while people are still evacuating.’” The man said he would give Mahmoud time — he said he did not want anyone to die, the dentist recalls. Mahmoud responded that he didn’t want anyone to even be injured. He kept the call going as he rushed around the neighbourhood, urging people to evacuate…

One neighbour remembers the dentist “just shouting”, then others joined in.  Mahmoud could not understand why his neighbourhood had become a target. “I tried my best to stop him. I asked, ‘Why do you want to bomb?’” He said, ‘There are some things that we see that you don’t see.’” The man did not explain what he meant. “It is an order from people bigger than me and you, and we have an order to bomb,” the voice added, according to Mahmoud.

When the areas around the buildings were clear the man informed Mahmoud that the bombing would begin. Mahmoud panicked — what if they bombed the wrong building by mistake? “Wait a bit,” the man told him, he says. An Israeli aircraft circled overhead. Mahmoud stared at the three towers that neighboured his own apartment block. Then one of them was bombed. “This is the tower that we want, stay away,”the man on the phone said as the building fell, according to Mahmoud. The two other blocks were then destroyed…When the bombing stopped, Mahmoud remembers the voice telling him: “We’ve finished… you can go back.”  ‘

Later that day, Shaheen was called again by a different Israeli who gave his name as Daoud. Shaheen was unnerved by the level of detail the man had about his life, addressing him in a familiar way and referring to his son’s name.

Daoud tried to explain what was happening in Gaza by referring to the slaughter of Israelis by Hamas, the details of which atrocities Shaheen apparently refused to believe. Daoud told him more buildings would be destroyed that night and that Shaheen needed to order more residents to evacuate. As Daoud subsequently informed him of more and more buildings that were targets, Shaheen ran from block to block evacuating the residents.

Then there is this telling passage:

Despite the panic, Mahmoud stayed on the phone the whole time, trying his best to delay the bombing. The voice on the other end of the phone continued, without emotion.“He even told me, ‘Take your time. I won’t bomb unless you give me permission.’ “I said ‘No, it’s not my permission. I don’t want you to bomb anything. If you want me to evacuate, I will evacuate for the safety of the people, but if you want to bomb, don’t tell me you need my permission. It’s not Mahmoud Shaheen who will bomb al-Zahra.’”

Note the fact that while the Israeli was telling Shaheen that these buildings wouldn’t be bombed until he gave the all-clear that the residents were safely evacuated, Shaheen interpreted this remarkable display of military restraint merely as some kind of insulting implication of collaboration with the bombing — the point of which, of course, he was unable to comprehend.

The BBC’s story reveals the remarkably precise and detailed intelligence that Israel possesses on what’s going on in Gaza. It also illustrates the extraordinary lengths to which the Israeli Defence Forces go to spare the lives of Gaza’s civilians. As any dispassionate person who has followed Israel’s wars knows very well, the IDF try everything they can to get enemy civilians out of harm’s way — by leafleting, “knock on the roof” warning shots, phone calls and other means of communication.

No other army in the world has ever done this. When coalition forces bombed  Afghanistan or when US forces flattened Mosul, no-one even bothered to mention the civilians who must have been killed there. Yet Israel’s wars repeatedly engulf it in international outrage with accusations that it kills enemy civilians wantonly or deliberately. This is not just a malevolent lie; it could not be a more grotesque inversion of the truth…

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turtlebrat

5 months ago

Does anyone think that helping these gazans will change their minds about destroying Israel?

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ed

5 months ago

Reply to  turtlebrat

How many ham-ass cowards were sneaking out with the “gaza civilians” ???

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Commieobamie

5 months ago

GOD’s Children.

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Snowedin

5 months ago

Israeli’s protecting the future terrorists.

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Underzog

5 months ago

They should stop protecting the evil pigs. They voted for Hamas. Basil Liddle Hart warned that that no nation can win a war by holding and cherishing the enemy. This enemy is worse than the Nazis and Israel is holding and cherishing it?

Rav Meir Kahane, zt’L w.”rned about “being merciful to the enemy/ If one doesn’t do what needs to be done, expect that your results will fail.

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Stephen Honig

5 months ago

Why isn’t this in the media?

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