As many as 50 people reportedly dead after a massive explosion rocked Rafah, Gaza, late Sunday night.
Insane footage showed buildings and vehicle ablaze, as emergency personnel were attempting to rescue people from the fire and rubble.
Around an hour after videos began circulating online, the IDF released the following statement to YWN:
“A short while ago, an IDF aircraft struck a Hamas compound in Rafah in which significant Hamas terrorists were operating. The strike was carried out against legitimate targets under international law, using precise munitions and on the basis of precise intelligence that indicated Hamas’ use of the area.
The IDF is aware of reports indicating that as a result of the strike and fire that was ignited several civilians in the area were harmed. The incident is under review.”
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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A beautiful מדורה
Thank you Hashem
No matter who is at fault, and most likely it was a Hamas rocket depot, Israel will be blamed for it.
So fortunate it’s not Meron!
Is it all possible that their own offensive launch sites and the like caused their horrific series of explanations?
Due to a safek, they do the מדורה on ל”ד בעומר
All I care is that no hostages were hurt nor killed in this inferno, and that no repercussions to their speedy release
Thank you Hashem? You think Hashem wishes his creations to die like this? Shameful responses here. If it was a mistake and tens of civilians and children died, we’re just like them to celebrate that. Do better.
Shameful responses here. Thank you Hashem? You think Hashem enjoys this? Hashem wishes his creations to be destroyed in such a manner? And if it was a mistake and tens of civilians and children died? We’re no different than them to celebrate these deaths. Chevra, do better. This is not us.
Gershey 246.
Of course we thank HaShem for destruction of our enemies. What do you say daily before shmone esrei? Thank HaShem profusely for not leaving one alive and having drowned all mitzriyim.
What do you think you davven for in ולמלשינים? For the destruction and annihilation of all our enemies. Don’t allow yourself to be contaminated with liberal attitudes..
Save your mercy for kelal Yisroel
gershy_246
וּבַאֲבֹ֖ד רְשָׁעִ֣ים רִנָּֽה
@Gershy _246
B’avod resha’im rena
Yes, when evil people die its a cause for celebration.
The less there are of them- the better it is for the world.
No it is not the same as when evil people dance for the slaying of innocents.
What defines evil?
One who seeks to destroy another WHILE the other does not seek to destroy them.
Machnovke Belzer- Appreciate your words- that was referring to a specific group and I’m not sure we have the right to extend it. Yes, our enemies (ideally their ideologies) should perish, but I do think Hashem prefers to avoid this milchama and cannot imagine there is much joy up high for this. Our lives and growth are our true goal rather than the death and destruction of our enemies that just impede our true tafkid. I’ve never seen anything good come from celebrating death… to the contrary.
the Hadlaka was started on Simchas Torah, BE”H the are the final stages of the Gaza 🔥🔥🔥
Gershy_246, where are the civilians in Gaza? They ALL, young and old ,male and female, are engaged in, or striving to engage in, the murder of Jews. Where do you think these tens of thousands of Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other terrorist gangs come from in a population of only 1.5 million? From these supposed “civilian families”! Whenever thousands of these terrorists are killed, the ranks are easily filled again with more of these “civilians”.
philosopher- I’d rather they stop hating is than dying for their hate. I’m sure you would too. Death is not something to glorify. Lo zu haderech.
Is what it is, I’m not saying we should be sad. But no cause for fireworks.
gershy_246
You right that we shouldn’t celebrate their death we are not. To make it clear. The problem is that many of those so called civilians… are not the average civilians you know of. Remember that girl that was held in captivity for 20 years? I think her name was Amanda. Remember Gilad shalit? They were all held in captivity underneath the noses of those Chamas guys. No one says a word to the Israeli intelligence, and even if they do it’s under investigation like guetnamo. Those so called civilians no very well where the captives were and even now.
Israeli jails have addresses names for their prison everything. (Btw the terrorists that are in those jails are even getting”family visitation”) not to mention that they get “top of the line” healthcare provided to to them 24/7 365 days a year
Min while the Israeli captives are getting 2 1/2 dates per day and a single pita (according to ynet news) yechi sinwar (one of the heads of Chamas got full cancer treatment (perhaps even saved his life ) he came out during Gilad shalit prisoner exchange agreement and look what he caused? The point is that many of the captives are believed to be held in Gaza and Israel has the Moral Right to protect itself from savages that has zero akaras atov under the circumstances that they were given or the opportunities they had to stop the war Chamas doesn’t care about their people. And their people are protecting their existence knowing that they either have no choice or they are just choosing them to continue their sabotaging against Israel and their people
You know, the Palestinians should probably have a better fire department. They’re in a region plagued with wildfires and alot of really flammable stuff 🤔
After seeing the significant carnage my feelings were.,
Allahu Akhbar
Gershy_246 keep your woolly liberal mind to yourself. Does good to nobody.
תהלים קלז ח-ט: “בת-בבל השׁדודה, אשׁרי שׁישׁלם-לך את-גמולך שׁגמלת לנו! אשׁרי שׁיאחז ונפץ את-עלליך אל-הסלע!”
Gershy_246 : ‘קל נקמות ה
Hashem wants revenge on reshaim! And yes we should rejoice. אז ישיר משה!
The Chofetz Chaim was seen rejoicing over the death of the Mitzryim!
Unfortunately liberal attitudes are seeping into the frummer camps.
There is no place to hide… 🙂
Gershy, let’s pretend something really good happens to your people. Say, a trans woman wins a swim meet. Don’t you thank your god and say “thank you Obama?” Same thing. When something good happens for my people I thank my God.
Whether it was justified or not is not the point. The point is that the tziyoinim are a bunch of wild animals that use violence to their liking as we have seen in Meron. If that is the way they treat their fellow Yidden then yeah think how they treat Arabs. Of course, in Gaza it is mostly justified as the civilians helped kidnap and murder on oct 7 but in the West Bank they do the same and it’s very bad because those guys work in Israel and thereby the IDF is endangering the lives of ehrliche Yidden.
The IDF is a third party, our interests are not the same though sometimes they might overlap. We are frum Yidden and do not give a hoot about the opinions of a yid who is mechalel Shabbos or a kofer.
YWN has so many commenters who are just modox guys who put on a black hat but are still modox on the inside. They can’t face the truth that frum Jews do not like freie Jews, as being frei is the ultimate way to be a self hating Jew
Without any evidence, why are there folks who are making assumptions? Why are there folks who make assumptions that whatever is coming out of gaza including the videos posted is truly real and the FULL and nothing but the truth?
————————–To Yanky1998: The Outrageous and Constant Chilul HaShem Must Stop! To me, you are distorting the Torah to meet your viewpoint. Meron access was restricted due to security concerns due to recurring Hezbollah attacks. If not restricted and, G-d forbid, a rocket landed there, I sense that you (plural) would be blaming someone but not yourselves (plural). What came first: the chicken or the egg? Which came first: The property damage and objects thrown at officers (resulting in injuries to 19 of them) or the officers attacked the frum lawbreakers first? You (plural) should honor the opinions of any yid who is mechalel Shabbos, for example, for that person may have an insight which the frum may not have seen. And for the purpose of yachut. Just imagine if the frum treat the secular Jews in a negative way, then yeah think how they would treat Arabs. OR they only have the nerve to fight fellow Jews!
———————–To gershy246: Purim and Channukah is about what? What did Abraham do when Lot was captured? What did David do when his 2 wives were captured? Do the commentators say anything about what were the consequences of their actions?
To gershy246: Purim and Channukah is about what? What did Abraham do when Lot was captured? What did David do when his 2 wives were captured? Do the commentators say anything about what were the consequences of their actions?
To Yanky1998: The Outrageous and Constant Chilul HaShem Must Stop! To me, you are distorting the Torah to meet your viewpoint. Meron access was restricted due to security concerns due to recurring Hezbollah attacks. If not restricted and, G-d forbid, a rocket landed there, I sense that you (plural) would be blaming someone but not yourselves (plural). What came first: the chicken or the egg? Which came first: The property damage and objects thrown at officers (resulting in injuries to 19 of them) or the officers attacked the frum lawbreakers first? You (plural) should honor the opinions of any yid who is mechalel Shabbos, for example, for that person may have an insight which the frum may not have seen. And for the purpose of yachut. Just imagine if the frum treat the secular Jews in a negative way, then yeah think how they would treat Arabs. OR they only have the nerve to fight fellow Jews!