Videos of IDF soldiers davening from a loudspeaker in a Jenin mosque circulated on Israeli social media on Thursday.
The IDF has been carrying out extensive counterterrorism operations in Jenin in recent days, during which four soldiers were lightly injured.
Later on Thursday, the IDF issued a statement saying, “The soldiers were immediately removed from operational activity. Their behavior is serious and stands in complete opposition to the values of the IDF and they will be disciplined accordingly.”
“Chaval,” Channel 14‘s Yinon Magal wrote sardonically: “All they did was daven a little and sing Chanukah songs to cheer up the residents of the ‘camp’ for the Chag.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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How can a JEWISH state that is battling a war against the most evil forces in the world condemn the recital of SHEMA???!? Is this what the Jewish state of Israel is all about??
Heroism, egoism and self-glorification are prioritized over kiddush shem shamayim??
How unfortunate
Shkoyach they should do this more often
Shema Yisrael “stands in complete opposition to the values of the IDF”?! What kind of values does the IDF have that this opposes?!
They are young and maybe made a misjudgement. Certainly no reason for disciplinary measure. They are honest, hard working, dedicated men who put their lives on the line every minute of every fay! So they acted a little silly! SO WHAT!! I truly hope they get nothing more than a little wag with the warning finger. They don’t deserve more.
Shooting positions, terrorist processions and a speech by Abu Obeidah – this is the terrorist mosque in Jenin.
The IDF fighters in Jenin who announced “Shema Israel” on the mosque’s loudspeakers in the city during the activity were suspended. We went to check the great terrorist mosque of Jenin
Elhanan Groner, HakolHayehudi, 2nd Tevet 5784 – 21:30 12/14/2023
The networks are abuzz following the IDF’s decision to suspend reservists who proclaimed “Hear Israel” from the terrorist mosque in Jenin during the military operation in the camp, claiming that they had damaged religious shrines.
At the direction of the Chief of Staff, it was even decided that the fighters would be put on trial this evening before Brigadier General Menashe Ayoub Kiouf.
However, on the website “HakolHayhudi” we reveal this evening that the mosque – known as the “Great Mosque of the Jenin Camp” constitutes a terrorist base for all intents and purposes, and in fact serves as one of the main strongholds of the “Jenin Battalion”.
The HakolHayehudi learned that just today IDF fighters located a large amount of bullet casings in the mosque that terrorists fired from the mosque’s minaret at IDF forces in a previous operation, as well as an explosive device. In addition, an alarm was triggered in the mosque, following which shots were fired at the troops. In fact, say military officials, the mosque is used as a terrorist base for everything.
In addition, a machine for forging Israeli identity cards and licenses was found in the mosque.
Even in previous activities of the IDF in the Jenin camp, it was reported many times about IDF activity in the mosque – including exchanges of fire with terrorists near it and even in the mosque compound itself against terrorists who had barricaded themselves in it.
In addition, a check on the Arab networks shows that the mosque is a regular exit point for terrorist and incitement processions in the Jenin camp, as well as an exit point for the funerals of the many terrorists who are exterminated in Jenin by the IDF.
In addition, during the war, the very same speakers of the mosque played the inciting speeches of Abu Obeidah, the spokesman for the military wing of Hamas.
One hopes this statement from the IDF is for international consumpsion, but in reality the soldiers involved were giver a ‘y’yashe Koach’ from their commanders…….
Now you know what the left is !!!
Let me get this straight, if you are head of military intelligence and ignore repeated signs of a massive invasion by Hamas and do nothing and over 1,200+ Jews get slaughtered, you get to keep your job and there are no public statements put out criticizing those involved.
Same goes for the head of Southern command – who does NOTHING to prepare the soldiers even though he heard that an attack is imminent.
BUT if you actually RISK YOUR LIFE fighting in Jenin and have the ‘audacity’ to say the Shema — that is against the values of the IDF? That person is immediately removed from duty?
Or what if you risk your life in Gaza and have the ‘gaul’ to spray-paint some graffiti on the walls there saying Am Yisrael Chai. In that case, that very same commander will risk those same soldiers’ lives to remove the graffiti — after all, it’s against their ‘values’.
Perhaps the real problem are the present day ‘values’ of the heads of the IDF.
@NotKidding
You really shouldn’t be surprised at all, after all, the idf is the self proclaimed ‘psychological meting pot’ of zionism.
That should say more than enough.
@Milhouse
read my comment above
I don’t get any of you guys. Of course the IDF is not condemning saying Shema Yisroel, (even though they are nb great tzadikim….) they are condemning doing it in a mosque, and worse still, making these clips viral.
We may, and should kill Arab terrorists – even if that entails uprooting millions from their homes. We have to defend ourselves. but we have no right to step on the cultural sensitives of anybody without a security benefit. And angering our enemies is even worse. besides for being insensitive to them, it can boomerang to us, giving them (feeble) excuses to hate and kill us.
The Arabs, and the whole world, have to see and know that we only do what we need for our self-defense.
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FYI, the Chief Sephardic Rabbi, Rav Yitzchak Yosef also came out with a letter condemning this, and forbade any antagonistic behavior [when there is no security need].
this war is one big chillul hashem!
The Rambam rules that it is permitted to go into a Mosque and Daven there.
Yaapchik, they did not “act a little silly”. What they did was the very definition of Kiddush haShem. Proclaiming Hashem’s supremacy from the enemy’s “holy” place. A Jewish army does not recognize or honor the “holy” places of other religions. Islam is not avoda zara, but it is definitely tum’ah, and this mosque was at war with Hashem, His Torah, and His People, which are all the same thing. ישראל אורייתא וקוב״ה כולי חד
@ujm,
It’s not that it is relevant, as there was not much left of the bes hatumah, but i have asked and looked up this Rambam a few times, and I was told/understood, to the best of my recollection, that the Rambam didn’t ‘Pasken’ that it is permitted to go into a mosque ‘per-se’.
Rather, in a situation where it has to be done, or there is no other possibility (what they are is not the point), then in that situation, it is not a problem COMPARED to a church, as they believe at least in one G-D and not shituf.
The same specific point can be seen in various poskim, that say; that in comparison to e.g. atheists/ aka liberals/woke, etc, the christians are not as bad AS THEM, as they are ‘believers’ even though they believe erroneously in their j****.
Not that they are ‘good’ or ‘alright’, rather in comparison, they are not as evil AS THE OTHER.
The same goes for the muslims in comparison to the christians….