Militants ‘blow up UNRWA clinic,’ killing 3 soldiers

[King_David]

Three IDF soldiers were killed Wednesday morning in Gaza in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic that housed a tunnel entry shaft, the IDF’s Gaza Division commander, Brig. Gen. Micky Edelstein, said in a briefing.

After describing certain precautionary measures, Edelstein said, “And then we enter with our people, and they [the militants], from the very same terror tunnel, they blow up half the clinic on our troops.”




“They blow [up] the UNRWA clinic on our troops.”

UNRWA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

However, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, the military unit that implements government policies in the Palestinian areas, later said that the clinic in Abu Daka, outside Khan Younis, was last registered as a sensitive location three years ago, “and it hasn’t been since.”

The spokesperson said the site had not been registered then as belonging to UNRWA, leading to speculation that, perhaps, militants stole the sign and tacked it on the door, posting it as a security umbrella under which a tunnel could be dug.


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[Fozzledick]

1. UNRWA really needs to stop letting Hamas use their facilities.

[shaayecanaan]

11. The point is that it was not an UNRWA clinic (nt)

[Fozzledick]

12. Actually it was, but the point is that this is not an isolated incident.

[shaayecanaan]

14. actually it wasn't nt

[bravenak]

2. So, this was not a clinic that the UNRWA was using for the last three years.

I wonder if this was payback from them for the bombs dropped on peoples homes. At least we can be thankful that they did not kill any civilians. That would be a horrible war crime.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. Booby-trapped tunnels? Sounds like shades of Viet-Nam...

a war America lost due to thinking it was invincible and the NVA as inferior.

[msongs]

4. invaders are frequently targets of attacks. nt

[King_David]

5. UNRWA clinic was boobytrapped.

[azurnoir]

7. COGAT, a different branch of the military, says building not registered as belonging to UNRWA

BTW have you ever heard the term guerrilla warfare? hint it's not a video game

[King_David]

9. UNRWA clinic .

[azurnoir]

15. sentence left out of snip-from article OP based on :)

[JI7]

6. is there another source for this ? times of israel has been very unreliable

[azurnoir]

8. apparently so because Jpost and Ynet do not state anything about a clinic UNRWA or otherwise

both simply state tunnel shaft, the other stories claiming clinic are from other sources blogs including FreeRepublic and JihadWatch where it was lapped up by commenters like kittens given cream

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4552445,00.html

http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/2-IDF-soldiers-killed-in-booby-trapped-tunnel-in-Gaza-369455

[King_David]

10. Probably Wasn't reported in extremist right wing sites either

You know the sites that approve of BDS by the Presbyterian church? I forget which one .

No kitten cream lapped up there.

[kayecy]

13. Sounds like one of those defensive tunnels in built-up areas.......

Sounds like one of those defensive tunnels in built-up areas designed to help Hamas resist an Israeli invasion. Nothing wrong with that unless it is in a working UN complex or hospital.