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How many Israeli civilians have been attacked from the Gaza tunnels? Any?

Rudoren in tunnel, from her facebook page
New York Times reporter in tunnel, from her facebook page

Here is the latest front in the war of information over Gaza. Israel and its apologists assert that the Gazan tunnels were designed to attack Israel civilians.

–This pro-Israel site says that Hamas fighters were planning massive attacks on Israeli homes and schools in September;

–The Israeli government cited “kindergartens” as targets, and this New York Times article echoed the fear: “We can’t do anything if the terrorists will come to our kindergarten.”

–Yesterday Tom Friedman reported that the tunnels are aimed at… kibbutzniks:

This tunnel had one purpose, and it was not fruit exports. It was to shuttle fighters into the kibbutz. And there were many of these.

Hold on a second. Fighting has raged for over a month. Where is the evidence? I have seen unclear accounts of fighting at tunnel mouths, certainly altered by Israeli censorship and confused by the fog of war, but I have not seen any reports that Hamas fighters emerged from the tunnels and attacked Israeli civilians.

This video shows Hamas fighters coming out of a tunnel to target an Israeli military base, killing Israeli soldiers:

And while Israeli forces have killed over 1000 civilians, including more than 400 children, reliable reports say Gazan forces have killed three Israeli civilians. All were reportedly hit by rocket fire.

We have a wide range of visitors at the site. I welcome further clarification. How many Israeli civilians have been attacked by Hamas fighters emerging from tunnels?

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Please correct me if I’m wrong. I don’t want to spread false information. But aren’t two of the people counted as Israeli civilian casualties a Thai National and an Arab Bedouin?

Do they become “promoted” to Israelis in death?

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if Hamas was actually attacking
rather than making an effort to defend
it seems like it would be happening more often
seems like those tunnels were freedom tunnels
for outside contact and basic supplies
it is sad that the Israel people are able to
show concern for the safety of some yet not all
seems they need to learn how to love
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bbc America really spat on the Palestine people
looks like the msm are more imprisoned than Gaza
free msm free the world
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G-d Bless
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If Hamas wanted to use the tunnels to attack civilians, wouldn’t the best moment to do this be near the beginning, when the Israelis weren’t aware of how extensive the tunnel network was ? Why wait until they found out?

The Israeli spokesmen have snuck this point in at every opportunity. The other day I heard Regev trill about how Israel had to stop ‘Khamas death squads’ coming out of ‘terror tunnels’ to attack Israeli kindergarten kids.

The language is so manufactured and manipulated; death squads, terror tunnels, kindergarten, you have to imagine copywriters sitting in a room dreaming up this cant.

In fact if you listen carefully, you can hear Israeli sound bites mutate over time to the one that is finally settled on. And then all will echo it from the English speaking Israeli salesmen to the supine US media who just always seems to fall in behind in their role as lazy good for nothing cheerleaders.

All were reportedly hit by rocket fire.

The report after the first of those Israeli civilians was killed was that he was struck by mortar fire. Which would make sense, since he was on the border with Gaza, delivering food to IDF soldiers. Hamas didn’t need the additional range provided by the rockets.