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Video: Israeli bulldozer and tank invade Gaza to take bodies of two Palestinians killed by IDF

Early this morning (Sunday, Israel time) the Israeli military killed two Palestinians near the border fence between the Gaza Strip and Israel. According to the IDF, the two Palestinians were attempting to lay IEDs against the military. Soon afterwards, the IDF invaded Gaza with an armored bulldozer and a tank to snatch away the two bodies.

A video (not enough TRIGGER warnings in the world) soon emerged, showing the doomed struggle between Palestinians and the armored vehicles, as the Palestinians were trying to maintain the dignity of the dead.

You can hear automatic weapons firing in the background.

The body snatching is apparently the result of a new policy by temporary Defense Minister Bennet, who recently announced his intention to “collect” the bodies of Palestinian so-called terrorists, as a way to force Hamas to return the bodies of two Israeli soldiers it holds since Operation Protective Edge.

Following outrage among Israeli liberals, Bennet wrote he is:

“sick of the hypocritical criticism of the left about the ‘inhumanity’ of using a bulldozer to bring to us the body of a terrorist who tried to murder (!) Israelis. Bleeding hearts gentlemen, *you* are the inhuman ones! Hamas holds the bodies of Hadar [Goldin] and Oron [Shaul] . I endorse the actions of the IDF, who killed the terrorists and collected the body. This is how it should be and would be done in the future [as well].”

Goldin and Shaul are the soldiers killed in Operation Protective Edge; note Bennet’s use of their first names.

Israelis have long had a fixation with soldiers’ bodies, and the Israeli media – following the rhetoric of the families of the dead – often refers to the corpses as “the sons”, without reminding readers they are actually dead. Goldin’s family often demands Israel will increase the suffering in Gaza until their son’s body is returned; Leah Goldin, his mother, demanded Israel stop permitting medical treatment of Gazan children.

Bennet did not refer to the two living Israelis held by Hamas: One is a Bedouin citizen of Israel, and the other is an Ethiopian Jew. Both crossed the border to Gaza, both were civilians, and both belong to oppressed sectors of Israeli society.

The IDF and the Israeli government have a policy of holding the bodies of dead terrorists and suspected terrorists, as a deterrent. This policy, authorized time and again by the Israeli High Court of Justice (HCJ), used to be extended to the bodies of Palestinian citizens of Israel suspected of terrorism, but recent victories in the HCJ limited the inhuman and arguably criminal policy to non-Israeli Palestinians. Needless to say, in the extremely rare case of a Jewish terrorist dying in action, his body is immediately returned to his family.

Within Israel the IDF is widely considered to be the “most moral army in the world.”

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“Leah Goldin, his mother, demanded Israel stop permitting medical treatment of Gazan children.”

Good grief, such venimous hatred directed at innocent, sick and helpless children imprisoned by “Israel” in the Gaza Strip!! In short, Leah Goldin is a monster.

Ah yes, the mighty Israeli bulldozer is now used not only to demolish Palestinian homes and villages, but to be driven with a murderous speed bearing boulders trying to crush fleeing and terrorized Palestinians, but now to ‘retrieve’ the murdered Palestinians and spirit them away to some hell- hole and hold them in spite. They dishonor the Palestinians in any way possible and rob them even of the courtesies of dignity after they murder them. I very much doubt that there were any IEDs, but hey, the Israelis make stuff up all the time and the world lets them get away with it. If there were IEDs, the Palestinians are allowed to resist…

The Israels dishonor themselves with this and so much more. If the tables were turned, can you imagine the response??? I cannot, because the Palestinians would not tolerate such inhumane behavior.

This is how the Intifada started. You can count on the U.S. press to report: “Everything is peaceful in Gaza; no people were hurt”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/02/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-gaza-fence-wound-200223103703458.html

“Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Gaza fence, wound two others”

“Palestinian factions in Gaza fire rockets towards Israel after army bulldozer removed body of dead Palestinian.” Al Jazeera. Feb/ 23, 2020

“A Palestinian has been killed by Israeli forces and two others were wounded as they tried to retrieve his body in the besieged Gaza Strip, according to local media reports.

“The incident took place near the separation fence east of Khan Younis in the southern part of the coastal territory, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Sunday.

“The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) faction named the deceased as Mohammed Ali al-Naim, 27, and said he was a member of the organisation.

“The Israeli military said troops shot dead a Palestinian who was suspected of placing a bomb near the fence.

“In a statement, the army said it ‘spotted two terrorists approaching the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip and placing an explosive device adjacent to it.’

“‘The troops opened fire towards them. A hit was identified,’ it said.

“Widely shared video” – [included in article]

“A video widely circulated on social media on Sunday appeared to show an Israeli military bulldozer move the body of the Palestinian man towards the separation fence.

“In the clip, the sound of gunfire is heard and at least one man appears to be wounded. Other men then take away the wounded person, while the bulldozer lifts the body, reverses and moves towards the fence.

“The PIJ said in a statement the video showed a ‘brutal crime.’

“A spokesman for Hamas, the group which governs Gaza, told Al Jazeera that the incident was reflective of Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and its treatment of Palestinian people.

“‘There are hundreds of similar crimes that haven’t been documented by the camera. Israeli occupation continues its crime without any legal or ethical deterrence,’ Hazem Qassem told Al Jazeera.

“A military spokeswoman later told AFP news agency that an Israeli army ‘bulldozer extracted the body of one of the attackers.’

“According to Wafa, two men were shot and wounded in the foot while they were trying to retrieve the body of the dead man.

“Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, told Al Jazeera that two Palestinians with leg wounds arrived at the European Hospital in southern Gaza on Sunday morning.

“Later on Sunday, 20 rockets were fired towards Israel from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army said in a Twitter post. Approximately 10 were intercepted by its Iron Dome missile defence system, it added.”

“Palestinian factions in Gaza fired the rockets in response to the killing of al-Naim, local media reported.

“‘The targeting of one of our own in the Gaza Strip in a brutal way is blatant aggression and the enemy must bear the consequences,’ Abu Hamza, a spokesman for the al-Quds Brigades, the PIJ’s armed wing, said on Twitter earlier on Sunday.”

SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES

… According to the IDF, the two Palestinians were attempting to lay IEDs against the military. …

Zionists have this amazing ability to cry victimhood even as they commit acts of evil.

… The body snatching is apparently the result of a new policy by temporary Defense Minister Bennet, who recently announced his intention to “collect” the bodies of Palestinian so-called terrorists, as a way to force Hamas to return the bodies of two Israeli soldiers it holds since Operation Protective Edge. … Bennet did not refer to the two living Israelis held by Hamas … Both crossed the border to Gaza, both were civilians, and both belong to oppressed sectors of Israeli society. …

Makes sense – they’re not dead Isareli soldiers.

(Hopefully Hamas isn’t actually detaining the two Israeli civilians who chose to go to Gaza.)