The IDF and the Civil Administration, under the direction of the National Security Council, carried out an unusual operation in the past day to rescue over 70 Gazan orphans from Gaza and transport them to an orphanage in the Palestinian Authority.
As part of the operation, the orphans were transferred inside Israel, including on the outskirts of Jerusalem, Channel 12 News reported.
According to the report, the National Security Headquarters in the Prime Minister’s Office approved moving the group, which also included dozens of adult Gazan companions, from an orphanage in the Gaza Strip to their new home in Beit Lechem. The unusual humanitarian gesture was made at the request of the German embassy and was carried out despite the fact that Hamas did not provide anything in exchange and has refused to even provide a list of hostages who are still alive.
Channel 12 also reported that a large number of IDF forces were mobilized to secure the buses of the orphans and their companions as they were transferred to the Palestinian Authority.
In addition, it was reported that the political-security cabinet was not updated on the move. A senior cabinet official said that the incident is scandalous and is a slap in the face of the hostages and their families
Minister Betzalel Smotrich said: “כל המרחם על אכזרים סופו שיתאכזר לרחמנים. This is a lack of values. I demand clarifications from the prime minister regarding who gave this immoral order and on what authority at a time that our hostages and their children are being held captive by the enemy.”
National Security Minister Ben-Gvir said: “This is not how a country that wants absolute victory behaves – countless fake ‘humane measures’ and the citizens of Israel continue to pay the price.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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14 Responses
These kids are innocent. Collective punishment was done by Nazis, we have higher values.
this is what happens when you have secular “leaders” and their kroom corrupt “values” , we cannot for this reason have any chelek in the IDF and Zionism .
For the yafe nefesh who want to say some trash like “babies are not cruel”, yea, these babies had parents, and those parents themselves supported killing and dispossessing us from our land, and would’ve taught these kids the same. In fact, I am certain that the orphanage that these kids will go to will do a great job of teaching them to be shahids. Our of these seventy, I am sure at least a third will die trying (and succeeding r”l) murdering us.
Who are these infiltrators like “rif” here in the comments. I’m noticing more and more of these here.
Transferring them out of Hamas’s hands into the hands of like-minded terrorists is self-defeating. Perhaps they should have arranged for adoption of these children by good hearted, religious ppl in America or Europe.
don’t get the 1st 2 comments.
no one said to murder them.
be migayeir them and raise them in a jewish orphanage.
These Biryonim like ben-gvir and smotrich are a bigger enemy of Am Yisrael than hamas.
I agree with comment #1. Perhaps, like him, I’m wrong, but I think I’m right.
Two people quoted in the article are not weighty enough for such a daring headline. I know you can do better.
I agree with #1 but it’s a dilemma and not my first reaction. However, Hashem treated Yishmael leniently because he had not yet sinned although Yishmael certainly committed major sins later in life. Same idea.
To @Rif and all who agreed: Definitey makes sense, but also definitely dead wrong. See the last passuk in Al Naharos Bavel.
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There are at least 1 billion Yishmaelim in the world, they are all potential killers, we are living in Golus Yishmael, the last Golus before Moshiach.
Hashem didn’t instruct us to eliminate all our enemies (not in our times), Hashem wants our Teshuva. When we come back to Hashem, our enemies will not have the power to hurt us.
Yes we know הבא להורגך השכם להורגו however nowadays when there is no direct command from Hashem to wage a war, we need to consult with Daas Torah how to implement this in our days.
Eliminating Hamas is an illusion, a modern-day fantasy.
We are in Golus Yishmael.
We will be reading the parsha of Amalek soon…