Commander: Aborted Airstrikes by Netanyahu gives into Hamas terrorists.

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Commander: Aborted Airstrikes 'Sabotage' IDF Operation
Commander of IAF's real-time intel gathering squadron reveals how Hamas embedding among civilians endangers IDF.
By Ari Yashar
First Publish: 8/22/2014

Senior members of the IAF special reconnaissance Flying Camel Squadron discussed their role in gathering intelligence from the air during Operation Protective Edge, and noted frustration at having to abort airstrikes due to Hamas's use of civilian cover.

"We don’t have bombs on our planes; we have cameras that do intelligence work, and our job is to make sure that the bombs hit the right targets and only the right targets," said Lt. Col. Y, commander of the squadron, as reported by the IDF Blog this Monday.

The commander admitted "sometimes it’s very frustrating because you actually see rockets being launched from mosques, schoolyards - from places you can’t attack. And a lot of the time, it’s from the vicinity of these facilities. When it’s nearby, we try to clear the place."

"If the situation is unclear, the attack will be aborted. Maybe we would return to strike the target at a different time, or maybe not hit the site at all," added Lt. Col. Y, noting how Hamas's callous use of the Gaza populace is harming the IDF's ability to defend Israel.

Noting on the effect of the strike abortions, Lt. Col. Y added "it's not easy during battle, because you sabotage your operational achievement. Nevertheless, we do it because we believe its important."

MK Moshe Feiglin (Likud) has blamed Israel's "misplaced pity" for Gaza residents as being responsible for the deaths of IDF soldiers. In one case, reports indicated that a strike was called off on a booby-trapped UN clinic, forcing soldiers to go in without air cover; three soldiers were killed as the building exploded, and seven more were wounded.

An example of an airstrike on July 10 aborted after the Flying Camel Squadron gathered real-time intelligence of children entering the terror target site can be seen here:

Speaking about the operation, Lt. Col. Y stated "a lot of Hamas infrastructure is underground. They fire from pits and tunnels. We know this because after we’d hit the coordinate, we would see the underground infrastructure; we saw the tunnels, we saw the openings, the hidden ammunition etc."

Conferring with his squadron commander, Cpt. O, an operations officer and pilot for the Flying Camels, said "we face an enemy who puts its civilians in the middle of the conflict. ...Hamas targets indiscriminately - they fire rockets wherever they can. We pinpoint targets as much as we can and we bomb areas where we know for a fact they are used to attack Israeli civilians."

Cpt. O added that "as a person, hearing about children being killed is heartbreaking and that’s understandable for everyone. The IDF puts a lot of time, money and effort into training us to prevent civilian casualties.”

The Flying Camels Squadron, which has operated in all of Israel's wars, uses only Israeli optical equipment consisting of the most advanced cutting edge technology.

The capabilities are needed because sometimes terror targets "can be very close to a house, so the attack needs to be very accurate," noted Lt. Col. Y.

An example of a pinpoint strike on a weapons cache and terrorist gathering point within the house of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in Khan Yunis on July 9 can been seen below.

It is worth noting that the home, located as close as 18 meters from an adjacent civilian home, is described by the IDF video as a gathering point for "militants," using a term popular in the international media to sanitize terrorists. In this context, many have lamented Israel's shortcomings in the global PR war.

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4-year-old boy, Daniel Tregerman, pronounced dead after being critically wounded by a mortar shell fired towards Sha'ar Hanegev.

Israeli security source says fatal shell was fired from UNRWA school in Gazа; PM says Hamas will pay heavy price; over 110 projectiles launched at Israel.

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August 22, 2014, 10:45 pm
An Israeli security source said the fatal shell was fired from a UNRWA school in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza, the Ynet news site reported late Friday.

Sirens wailed only very shortly before the mortar shell struck outside the Tregerman family home at the kibbutz, and his parents — Doron and Gila — were unable to get their son Daniel into their protected room in time. He was killed by shrapnel from the explosion that smashed into the house.

Daniel is the first Israeli child to die in the current Israel-Hamas conflict. His death brought the Israeli death toll since Operation Protective Edge began on July 8 to 68.
He was critically wounded, and later died of his wounds.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas would pay a “heavy price” for the killing. In a phone call to local Sha’ar Hanegev council head Alon Shuster, Netanyahu said the IDF and Shin Bet would intensify their operations against Hamas and other Gaza terror groups until sustained calm was guaranteed for Israel.

Shuster said the family had only recently returned to their home, having stayed elsewhere during part of the war.

Israeli security source says fatal shell was fired from UNRWA school in Gaza; PM says Hamas will pay heavy price; over 110 projectiles launched at Israel

four-year-old Israeli boy was killed by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday afternoon. The boy, named late Friday as Daniel Tregerman, was at home with his parents and siblings at their kibbutz in the Sha’ar Hanegev Region, close to the border with Gaza, when the attack took place.
Several cars and buildings sustained damage from the fire following the explosion of the mortar shell.

US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro condemned the attack. “I condemn in the strongest terms this outrageous terrorist attack and offer condolences to the boy’s family. Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself, which the United States supports,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

One person was in critical condition, and two others were lightly injured, in a separate rocket attack in the Ashdod area later Friday.
Earlier Friday, a rocket slammed into an empty house in Sderot, causing significant damage.

Also on Friday afternoon, a synagogue in Ashdod suffered a direct hit by a Gaza rocket. The building was badly damaged and three people were injured in that attack, one moderately.

Hamas has fired over 3,500 rockets at Israel in the past 46 days, including some 600 from close to schools, mosques and other civilian facilities, the Israeli army says. Some 2,000 people have been killed in Gaza as Israel seeks to thwart the rocket attacks and smash a network of attack tunnels dug by Hamas under the border. Israel says 750-1,000 of the dead are Hamas and other gunmen. It also blames Hamas for all civilian fatalities, since Hamas set up its rocket-launchers, tunnel openings and other elements of its war machine in Gaza neighborhoods and uses Gazans as “human shields.”