Palestinians Hide Bomb Under Baby, Prepare to Blame Israel Anyway
We're sure that there's a way to blame Israel for this, we're just not sure what that way is:
Five wanted terror suspects have been arrested in overnight searches conducted by the IDF in a village north of Nablus in the early hours of Saturday. In a house where the suspects were hiding 10 Kg (about 22 pounds) of explosives were found. An extensive search of the house revealed that the wife of one of the suspects had hidden a hand-grenade under the toddler she was holding in her arms...
"I can firmly confirm that an attack against soldiers and civilians has been thwarted. We are speaking about a large quantity of explosives found in three-storey building which was badly damaged when police sappers detonated the suitcase," Khen said.
Palestinian terrorists will often use civilian infrastructure to hide massive caches of military supplies and to conduct logistical planning for terrorist operations - precisely it makes Israel far more reluctant to conduct operations aimed at preempting terrorism when those operations would have to be conducted in the midst of innocent civilians, turning the entire Palestinian population into de fact human shields. And the most frustrating aspect of this strategy is that it works: does anyone doubt that there would have been intense international outcry, massive Arab riots, and most probably retaliatory suicide bombings if the toddler - having been intentionally put in harm's way by his mother - was in any way hurt?
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
Five wanted terror suspects have been arrested in overnight searches conducted by the IDF in a village north of Nablus in the early hours of Saturday. In a house where the suspects were hiding 10 Kg (about 22 pounds) of explosives were found. An extensive search of the house revealed that the wife of one of the suspects had hidden a hand-grenade under the toddler she was holding in her arms...
"I can firmly confirm that an attack against soldiers and civilians has been thwarted. We are speaking about a large quantity of explosives found in three-storey building which was badly damaged when police sappers detonated the suitcase," Khen said.
Palestinian terrorists will often use civilian infrastructure to hide massive caches of military supplies and to conduct logistical planning for terrorist operations - precisely it makes Israel far more reluctant to conduct operations aimed at preempting terrorism when those operations would have to be conducted in the midst of innocent civilians, turning the entire Palestinian population into de fact human shields. And the most frustrating aspect of this strategy is that it works: does anyone doubt that there would have been intense international outcry, massive Arab riots, and most probably retaliatory suicide bombings if the toddler - having been intentionally put in harm's way by his mother - was in any way hurt?
[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]
