Israel has begun what its military calls a “complete siege” of Gaza, the staging ground for Hamas’ terror attacks over the weekend that have claimed more than 800 Israeli lives so far, with more than 2,200 wounded and at least 100 confirmed held hostage by the Iran-backed terrorist group.
No power, no water, no food, no fuel for Gazans: all due to the barbaric cruelty of Hamas, slaughtering innocents out of the blue and dragging others off to serve as human shields/hostages.
Look at what we already know about the group’s actions:
- A multi-pronged assault on an open-air music festival that killed at least 260, likely including Shani Louk, whose body Hamas paraded in the back of a pickup truck
- The murder of a grandmother in kibbutz Nir Oz, with the atrocity recorded on the dead woman’s phone and posted to social media
- The videotaping of a family held hostage and seemingly weeping over the killing of one of their children, with one terrorist cruelly telling the devastated surviving kids their sister “went to Heaven”
Expect more such enormities to see daylight this week: Hamas’ neo-Einsatzgruppen seem keen to record evidence of their crimes and publicize it, likely in a bid to break Israel’s spirit.
As the response of the Jewish state so far shows, this policy has only increased Israel’s military and civil resolve.
And now the bloodthirsty psychopaths and kleptocrats who hold power in Gaza have again endangered the citizenry whose liberation is allegedly their main goal.
Thanks to Hamas’ pathological focus on the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews, no real infrastructure exists there — despite Israel’s unilateral withdrawal from the area in 2005.
Making Gaza utterly dependent on Israel for power, water and other necessities.
Access to which is gone, thanks to Hamas’ attacks.
And ordinary Gazans now face life-or-death risks.
All because the tactics their “leaders” chose left the Israeli government with no other options.
Hamas and its Iranian paymasters do not care how much innocent blood they spill — and whether it belongs to their enemies or their allies.