In the link below are the first images of the Gaza fighting released from the IDF:
[VIDEO FIXED]
I saw several things:
- There were a number of clips of Merkava tanks and Achizart APC’s parked and moving.
- There was an inspection of a blown up Hamas tunnel.
- IDF Sayret special forces with Tavor rifles and IDF paratroopers with M4 carbines engaged in operations.
- At about 3:54 to 4:40 There was a long urban fire fight sequence. The noise from their small arms includes a couple of rifle clips or half machine gun’s a belt’s worth of “rock and roll” followed by shorter controlled bursts. There is also some sort of very rapid burst automatic weapon barking. This may be Travor rifles in “burst mode.” These sounds are in sharp contrast to the sound of American Army troopers and American Marines in Iraq. American infantry machine guns are almost always used in shorter burts and the singular pops of semi-automatic aimed rifle shots distinguishes the presence of American infantry. Also heard in the back ground is sharp controlled bursts of machine gun fire from armored vehicles, judging from the amount of it used. There are also many impacts of Tank, 40mm grenades or heavy machine guns on a Hamas position.
- There was an overhead view of an IDF/Hamas fire fight ended by what looked like and tank round or a missile.
- There were extensive overhead strike videos showing Hamas fighters firing rockets and mortars from civilian areas.
- There were extensive strike videos of large improvised explosive devices being destroyed by air dropped ordinance.
- There were extensive overhead views of strikes on Hamas munitions stores and tunnels with many secondary explosions.
– The Military Curmudgeon
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Was looking forward to seeing this video. However, the link provided does not work. It generates a “Content Server Error” in Firefox and a “HTTP Server Error 503 No available server to handle this request” in IE.
Nice article…
-shouldn’t they be ‘TAVOR’ rifles? Not TRAVOR?
On the network news video being played every night it looks like the Isrealis are using a lot of Willie Pete artillery rounds. Has anyone else noticed this or am I just a squid out of water?
If it is WP, maybe they learned a thing or two from Army and Marine doctrine in urban combat. I think we said they were used as “illumination rounds” in Fallujah.
DC2
Yep, video link is broken.
Here is a working link from Jerusalem Post
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=1194419829128&videoId=1231167288392
Sorry guys, fixed the video link…
Israeli soldiers being brought to justice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS2mqgxdKxM&feature=ytn%3Amptnews
Sam, the comments on that video made me sick. It’s nothing but mindless filth from readers of things like the Protocols of Zion. Anyways, may I remind you that Hamas began the attacks, and launched rockets from populated areas in an attempt to create civilian casualties?
I smell devil eggs!Nobody knows that much about
isayeret,from outside!Nice try!Remember GOD!
here is a recent video of Israeli soldiers in Gaza.
it’s in hebrew, so i’ll translate for you.
the soldiers found rockets in a home, and IEDs ready for use with instructions on where the Merkava-3′s most vulnerable points are.
with the video of the Israeli soldiers being brought to justice… I got the idea there would be ALOT of collateral damage from the supposed IED explosion. Surely civilans would of been hurt from that blast?
Makes me wonder why there is no outcry about ones sides tactics, yet screaming and yelling about the others.
What a mess :(
Sam,
I think you mean Israeli soldiers bringing justice. You made a typo, I understand.
Alex, may I remind you that Israel has been blockading Gaza (an act of war) in an attempt to force the Palestinian people to capitulate and Israel broke the ceasefire in early November, not the Palestinian government in Gaza. May I also remind you that the Israeli army targets civilians and civilian infrastructure.
As for the comments on YouTube under the video of the Israeli soldiers being brought to justice, it is very easy to find anti-Arab and anti-Muslim comments as well. I don’t need bigotry to win this argument.
For those of you who deny the truth.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090108/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_young_victims
here is an article on how Hamas is using civilian
areas to mask their troop deployment, and hence, many casualties to women and children.
here
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&newspaperUserId=27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7&plckPostId=Blog%3a27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3a954ef738-ba59-4111-bbc6-a7b2fd118e5b&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest
Funny how there is never any critism for Israel putting civilians in a war zone via the settlements. And whereas the settlers make a choice to move into a war zone (with full government backing and the supprot of American arms) the people of Gaza are trapped in the world’s largest open air prison.
If nazi Germany’s Warsaw ghetto is looked upon as a crime against humanity then why not Gaza. Same thing. We (Americans) are complicant in this war crime.
Christian et al,
Looks like my Willie Pete theory was correct. I mean, couldn’t they have been a little more discrete about it? Geez.
DC2