Hamas, Palestinian Jihad Tell Gaza Civilians NOT to Evacuate After IDF Warnings
The Palestinians never stop using their own people as human shields for propaganda purposes against Israel Defense Forces (IDF). New reports have confirmed this tactic in the new war that erupted after Hamas terrorists committed brutal atrocities on Israeli civilians.
One important fact that almost nobody reports whenever there are discussions of Gazan citizens killed, is that many times, if not all the time, the Israeli military has specifically told civilians to evacuate an area but the Palestinians are using their own people as human shields, so that afterwards they could accuse the Israelis of being monsters who killed women and children. The Palestinian terrorists hide their weapons and military targets in and around mosques, schools, residential high-rises, and hospitals. It’s a deliberate strategy that has been going on for years.
Just as the Palestinian terrorists used their own water pipes to make rockets to fire on Israel, important context that almost no one wants to discuss when mentioning that Israel has cut off its water, etc., to its enemies in Gaza, the Palestinians will always plant civilians at military targets.
From MEMRI, Oct. 10:
“Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which are currently waging the terror campaign against Israel, are calling on the residents of the Gaza Strip to ignore messages sent to them by Israel instructing them to evacuate areas that are about to be targeted in Israeli military strikes.
Ahead of airstrikes against targets belonging to the terror groups, and out of a desire to minimize civilian casualties, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) has been sending warning messages to the residents of the Gaza Strip urging them to evacuate areas that are about to be targeted in strikes. In response to these messages, media outlets operated by Hamas and PIJ have been instructing residents of the Gaza Strip not to heed these warnings and not to share them or forward them to others.
Several accounts affiliated with the terror groups have been sharing posts describing the Israeli messages as psychological warfare and claiming that the messages are being sent ‘randomly.’”
Could there have been a mistake, you ask? Of course not. The so-called “Palestinians”, who are controlled by terrorist groups and have always refused a two-state solution, have been doing this for years, as noted above. That way when women and children are killed during a military airstrike, the “State of Palestine” can post social media propaganda like the post below (note: Palestinians always refer to those killed during fighting with Israelis, particularly terrorists, as “martyrs”):
Examples of messages to Gaza civilians not to heed IDF warnings, from MEMRI:
“On October 10, 2023, the spokesperson department of Hamas's interior ministry wrote on the ministry's Telegram channel: ‘An important note: We repeat our call on the residents to ignore the voice messages being sent randomly by the occupation to their phones demanding that they leave their homes. Their goal is to arouse panic and fear as part of a psychological warfare [campaign] accompanying the occupation's aggression against us.’
Similar messages were posted by the ‘Home Front’ Telegram channel, which also belongs to Hamas's interior ministry. One, on October 8, read: ‘An important note: The occupation has been randomly sending audio and recorded messages to the phones of Gaza residents demanding that they leave their homes. We call on civilians to ignore such messages, which are aimed at arousing panic and fear and in the framework of a psychological warfare [campaign] accompanying the occupation's aggression against our people’…
Several of these messages have been published in unofficial and semi-official channels affiliated with the Gazan terror groups.
For example, on October 9, a Telegram channel affiliated with the PIJ wrote: ‘Dear residents: Do not share any information or publication by Zionist occupation channels calling on [people] to leave the areas [about to be targeted in airstrikes], which are aimed at creating confusion among the Palestinian public.’”
Notice the civilians were told not only to ignore the warnings, but to refuse to pass the warnings on to others. Hamas and the other terrorists in control of Gaza really want people to die, so they can continue to gin up stupid Westerners’ sympathy with their fight against Israel. Fatah (the group of Palestinian Authority President Abbas) called Jews “apes and pigs” and both Hamas and Fatah called for slaughtering Jews when justifying the horrific attack on Israelis, and Hamas is also telling Gaza civilians to stay put and get blown up. Yes, these people are evil. That’s why Israel needs to crush them once for all.
The problem is that Americans and other Westerners are cultural imperialists. It doesn’t even occur to us that other people could think differently than we do. In fact, we take the suggestion as insulting. Of course the Palestinians are not using their people as human shields, Westerners scoff. Such willful ignoramuses appear to be unaware of more than 1000 years of Islamic history of treating their own people as perfectly expendable in jihad wars against non-Muslims, while arguing that any cruelty is justified against non-Muslims (Islamic scriptures endorse killing Jews and raping non-Muslim women, for instance). And these cultural imperialist Westerners had better watch out, because Hamas has already called for a global day of jihad for this Friday.
As JihadWatch said, this is not just a regional war between Israel and Arabs who want Israeli land. It is a religious war that Islam began since the dawn of its invention as a religion, and will continue to its dying day.