"SO MANY MIRACLES" BY NAOMI RAGEN ON GOD'S PROTECTION FOR THE JEWISH NATION!!

So Many Miracles

By Naomi Ragen

This e-mail is going around in Hebrew.  It is all true.

The soldiers in Gaza are switched out with other units in order to rest. This story was told by one  of these soldiers.

"I and my friends captured a number of Hamas terrorists.  When they were interrogated, we asked them, if you have so many tunnels that come into Israel, and that are built 25 feet under the ground  and reach to Beer Sheva, why until now have you never used any of them for terrorist attacks?  To kidnap or kill Israelis?

And this is what he answered:

“For twelve years we have been building these tunnels and waiting for the right moment, when we were trained and ready.  We decided that the time would be this year on Rosh Hashana, 2014.  We chose Rosh Hashana because most of the soldiers get leave to go home and there aren’t a lot on guard duty, and it’s a two day holiday.  All of Hamas would go through the tunnels we’ve built over twelve years and capture Israel. In every tunnel we’d send two, three dozen armed terrorists and kidnap civilians, women, children and bring them back to Gaza through the tunnels.  And then Israel couldn’t bomb the tunnels because of all the Israeli civilians inside them.  And in this way we would occupy the entire country and rule Israel and kill all the Zionists.  For years we were planning this and it was going to happen in two months.  Your attacks on Gaza destroyed our plans.”

The person who sent this to me added this:

Many religious people asked after our three boys were found dead what happened to all our prayers? So you see, this is what happened.  God heard us. And because of these three martyred boys, all of Israel was saved from a terrible massacre.  All the things that we have seen this summer are one miracle after the next.  Continue to pray and strengthen each other.  And give thanks to God who watches over the Jewish people in the land He promised them.

Even one of the members of the Israeli cabinet said it was a Miracle of God that they discovered the tunnels.  HalleluYah!!!

THE BEST UPDATE ON GAZA WAR YET!! (SHOCKING INDEED!)

(by an anonymous man living in Israel)

Everything OK here – a couple of sirens, into the security, stay the mandatory 8-10 minutes, and then pop out again and try to pick up where we left off. Not so easy. But we are glued to the radio and the TVS are on in every room, just in case a new piece of news is aired and we hear if we suffered any more casualties. Last night one of our war correspondents was on - Alon Ben David – a very reputable journalist with decades of experience in security affairs. If you ever need a fluent English journalist to explain what is going on for some occasion in your area, have them hire him (from Channel 10 news). In any case he just filed a 25 minute report from within Gaza accompanying the brigade commander, as they went from post to post. We could clearly see that almost in every house there was a tunnel opening, hidden explosives, mines, rig', rocket launchers outside etc. – almost in every civilian home! He pointed out a command center abandoned by Hamas with plasma screens that were fed by cameras focused on the border fence tracking every IDF patrol. Today, the IDF doesn't take chances i.e. find a booby-trapped house or getting fired on from a house- (we lost 3 paratroopers who entered a booby-trapped home and were killed.) They call in the massive D-9 caterpillar tractors - huge monsters, with heavily armored plates, and they just push the house down, burying anyone inside and setting off explosives! They have engaged terrorists and killed them all – in fact, Hamas has lost hundreds of its fighters, many buried alive under houses and in their own tunnels, and many are giving themselves up! They have found dead Hamas terrorists in the tunnels – you could say in 3 versions of them for want of a better word:

· Fighters- heavily armed and in IDF uniforms
· Suicide bombers- with bomb vests on them
· Large or heavy set Hamas people-why?

Because they were meant to be the ones to kidnap either live or dead Israelis, and carry them back in the tunnels into Gaza. They trained especially just for this task! Unbelievable!! And the destruction is awesome - Sugaiya, Khan Unis are almost leveled to the ground - just like what the IDF did to Nasrallah in the Dacha. Warnings were given to residents to evacuate – and over 100,000 did just that. But others either did not heed or could not – as Hamas leveled weapons at them forcing them to stay – and therefore they unfortunately paid the price. It's always the question of intent. They target our civilian cities just for the purpose to inflict death. We target Hamas strongholds in civilian areas who are using residents and their homes as shields - not to mention ambulances filled with ammunition and explosives. But we also paid a high price - 43 soldiers and officers- many of them high ranking, as they led their forces into battle. In other armies this does not occur – they died and it is hard to accept. But the calls from within the home front is to carry on. The news of the tunnels are headliners, and you are going to fall off your seat when i tell you 31-33 attack tunnels were known to exist – heading towards Israel. The intelligence knew about them, and the answers as to why will have to be given after the war is over. They uncovered 31, and have destroyed 16 of them, and no matter whether there's a ceasefire or not – these have to be destroyed. Their purpose was the mega hit over Rosh Hashanah 2014 with them emerging from 31 tunnels with thousands of fighters and slaughtering Jews. A miracle that we entered the campaign today and not after September! Smuggling tunnels was in the hundreds, but are of no significance to us, as Egypt dealt with them and destroyed – they say – over 90% of them, as their openings were in Egypt.

· But the city under the city is the big news. We knew they had an extensive tunnel system, but we now hear that there are 5000 - yes 5000 administrative, or command or logistical, communication tunnels crisscrossing Gaza, allowing Hamas free movement underground almost all across the Strip. I think it may be almost of the same proportion as what the Vietcong had during the Vietnam war. Where was the soil put? Mostly in green houses, and in house basements where the drones could not penetrate. 
So to sum it up till now:
· 3700 Hamas targets attacked since the operation began

· 2600 during the ground offensive

· 350 command centers of Hamas destroyed

· Over 300 Hamas terrorists killed - and more still under the rubble. Hamas tries to take the bodies away before we get to them

· IDF has used over 100 tons of explosive to explode the tunnels so far

· The air force struck at 80 targets over the weekend

· Hamas has fired over 938 rockets since the fighting began

· 180 intercepted by Iron dome – the rest in open spaces, and few scored direct hits 

· We have lost 43 of our solders and 124 are in hospital, 1 mortally wounded, and 1 still missing

Ceasefire:
· Kerry tried, but has it all wrong. He just doesn’t seem to understand the Middle East mentality. He tried to put forward a proposal that was virtually a copy of the Qatar and Turkish proposal, giving Hamas almost all that they wanted, with no mention of Israel's defense needs, or allowing us to destroy the tunnels during the ceasefire.

· Israel rejected it, and the only real one with any chance of success is Egypt's proposal.

· There have been 3 attempts at ceasefire – we accepted, but Hamas breached it each time

· Hamas asked for the last ceasefire - a sign of weakness or desperation? Who knows? In any case it was for 24 hours to allow the residents to stock up for the Idle fit festival in 24 hour's time.

· It didn’t take 45 minutes for Hamas to open up with a rocket barrage again

· So in essence there is no ceasefire

· As for the residents coming out of the camps to pick up belongings from their homes in Saguiya or Khan Unis (major Hamas strongholds) it was a waste of time, as there was nothing for them to return to. They are openly accusing Hamas for what is going on, but cannot do anything for fear of death.

· Haniyeh is still underground and doesn’t quite know what awaits him.  Mashal is still on his tread mill sweating hard, but only from exertion, but will regain his composure after a good gourmet meal at the Qatar Hilton – could not resist it! Muhammad Def. is still controlling Hamas, and he doesn’t care as he has lost 2 legs, is in a wheelchair, and lost the use of 1 arm, but is determined to fight till the last Gaza resident!

· By the way, the IDF says it knows where he is, but it is too complicated to get at him, and the price of losing our soldiers is not worth it . But we have a long memory and a long arm, and his time will come. There is a saying in Arabic - "kol kelb b'dyomo " – loosely translated – "every dog has his day".

So we carry on and see what happens overnight and tomorrow
More later
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