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Israel Thwarts Attempt To Smuggle Commercial Drones Into Gaza
An anonymous reader writes: The Jerusalem Post reports that the Shin Bet intelligence agency recently foiled an attempt to smuggle commercial multicopter drones into Gaza, Israel authorities announced on Sunday. The inspectors stopped an Israeli truck carrying toys at the Kerem Shalom Crossing, where drones of various types and sizes carrying high quality cameras were found. Additional attempts to smuggle commercial drones were intercepted by the Shin Bet in recent weeks. The drones were earmarked for use by Hamas group in Gaza. Close inspection of released images reveal what seems to be a Syma X5 FPV quadcopter. Those toy-grade multirrotors have a onboard wifi camera. Once you've downloaded the streaming app to your phone you are able to connect the on board camera to your phone and use it to give you FPV footage.
What exactly do they have to hide?
And why do they only ban them for Palestinians?
They should just let them have the drones, and put up WiFi jammers around the perimeter of the Strip so that the drones are useless outside of Gaza. These things can't have that much range anyway.
under house arrest in their own home.
They are not regular free human beings like you and me.
And the world allows this F'd up situation to continue.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
... to strapping on explosive to the drone and piloting into something ...
Have you looked at the "drone" in question?
It's a $70, 12 inch wide, 6 minute runtime, 160 foot control distance, toy.
A slingshot could move more weight further and probably more accurately.
If my neighbor bulldozed my house and there were no cops to call, I might lob explosives at him.
Since Hamas provides the casualty numbers and affiliations and the numbers are dramatically skewed, they very clearly reflect that the numbers you laid out include a LOT of combatants labeled as civilians.
Including women; if you had bothered to read my ice cream link.
But here's the thing; Hamas has fired thousands of rockets at civilian targets. You are basically giving them CREDIT just because many thousands of Israelis are not dead who would have been, if it were not for a very good missile defense system...
If you really cared at all you would consider the count of attempted fatalities, not the final result.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Israel has not entered Gaza in any official capacity since pulling out nearly 11 years ago, except to smack Hamas down every time the bombing got too annoying to ignore. The blockades were not in place until Arabs voted Hamas into power in a democratic election. Perhaps those Arabs could take a little responsibility for their (in)action and remove Hamas.
Those same Arabs also destroyed a functioning greenhouse complex that was bought for and given as a gift to them. Their hatred over all things Israeli has destroyed their ability and desire to make an honest life for themselves.
The US felt the need to hit Japan twice with the bomb, since the Japanese simply refused to surrender and continued to attack American soldiers. Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005. They uprooted all of their settlers and soldiers - no Jews whatsoever in Gaza (even though Jews had been living in Gaza for centuries). What did the Palestinians do? They destroyed all the greenhouses and synagogues and elected into office a terrorist organization that had conducted over 100 pre-planned, organized suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians. The checkpoints and border walls (also enforced by Egypt BTW) are in place to prevent these animals from committing more terrorist acts against soldiers and civilians. This all goes away when the people of Gaza rid themselves of the Islamists who hold their future hostage.
The genocide will not be televised.
Have gnu, will travel.
Should the Israelis apologize for not dying enough? there are about 12000 people in Gaza who are armed and ready to kill Israelis. I hope they die before they kill anyone.
They kill 100-300 Palestinians for every Israeli that's killed on account of the fact that Hamas and Islamic Jihad's missiles are launched from within densely-populated urban neighborhoods. Retaliatory strikes (which every single country in the world would be justified to make when fired upon) are generally precision-guided toward the location of the rockets. The IDF have dropped leaflets, sent text messages, knock-knock bombs, etc. to warn Palestinian civilians of pending retaliatory strikes. Hamas forces them back into their homes, since greater civilian casualties result in more sympathy from idiot leftists in the West.
More Germans than Americans or Brits died in WW2. Does that make the Americans or Brits the aggressors in WW2?
Body count does not correlate to who is the aggressor. Just who is losing.
People make bullshit up all the time if it helps them to insult/dissing/incite hate against Israel. Anti-semitism is alarmingly wide spread. Ignorance is bliss for a lot of people.
Don't confuse anti-semitism with anti-Israeli-foreign-policy. There are overlaps, but they are not the same thing.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Various lobby groups pretend the two are the same. Critical of someone in Israeli politics who is caught embezzling? You'll be called an anti-semite. Remember the shitstorm that descended on Robert Fisk for reporting on military actions in Lebanon and including a quote from an Israeli journalist? Apparently he was an antisemite for quoting a Jewish journalist that was a witness to an event that portrayed an Israeli military unit in a poor light.
So sadly to some people the two things are exactly the same and it means tiptoeing around issues of Israeli politics to avoid being dragged off into full Godwin territory.
Yeah... if the Israelis were indiscriminately killing civilians the casualty lists would look a lot different. Instead they are overwhelmingly concentrated on the category of males between 14 and 32.
During the last Gaza war there were a lot of Western News journalist on the ground in Gaza. They knew they were safe from Israeli attacks because Israel was being careful. By contrast there are no journalists in Syria, because they wouldn't be safe there. Always assess the objective facts before adopting an analysis.