Yom Shnee
Monday
15 Elul 5781
August 23 2021
The News on the Israeli Street
Palestinian terror in the last 24 hours . . .
Palestinian terrorists in Gaza unleashed another wave of explosive balloons into southern Israel early this morning. We will be seeing reports of fires for the rest of the day.
A knife-armed Palestinian terrorist was captured in a Jewish neighborhood in Hevron.
Palestinian terrorists struck Israeli buses with Molotovs at Hizma, Singil, and at Hatmar Shomron.
Palestinian terrorists assaulted Israeli motorists with “rocks” and Molotovs on the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem Road at Al Khader, Singil, Ariel, Tapuach, Luban A-Sharqiya, between Tapuach and Eviatar, Ras Karkar, Hermesh, Dotan, Yitzhar, Azzun, and a number of other places.
The daily Corona update . . .
The Corona cabinet has announced that schools will open in Israel on Wednesday, September 1.
6,467 more Israelis were confirmed yesterday as having Corona bringing to 67,801 active cases in the country. The relatively low number of cases verified yesterday was because the computer system which manages testing malfunctioned. All testing was stopped in mid-afternoon.
The positive test rate was 6.31%.
994,615 Israelis have tested positive since the pandemic began last year.
670 Israelis are in serious condition with another 108 in critical condition on ventilators.
6,830 Israelis have died of Covid-19; an increase of 48 since yesterday.
In terms of vaccinations:
5,900,077 Israelis have received 1 dose of vaccine.
5,445,567 Israelis have received 2 doses of vaccine.
1,482,503 Israelis have received 3 doses of vaccine.
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Who are the 1,000,000 Israelis who have not been vaccinated? According to the Health Ministry, the two main groups are Israeli-Arabs (especially Bedouins) and elderly immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
TODAY’S BLOG:
” . . . We were 11 soldiers with orders not to shoot
facing almost 5000 Palestinian terrorists.”
The moment when the Sgt Sbmueli was shot and critically wounded. This photo comes from Hamas which has blurred out the person’s face. How did the terrorist get that close to the fence? Why didn’t our soldiers shoot him? Read below to find out.
The title of today’s blog are the words of a fighter who served with St. Sgt. Barel Shmueli who was shot at point-blank range in the head at the Gaza border fence on Saturday.
Here is more of what he said (as reported by Amir Bohbot, military correspondent for Israeli media):
“The firing instructions were not clear. On the one hand, the officers explained to us what we should do if we were in danger of death, and on the other hand they warned us that we had to get a shooting permit which could only be used in exceptional cases.
And we were told that all the shooting had to be documented, and if not we would be reported. What do you understand from that?
We even had to get permission to fire rubber bullets, and getting this permit took a long time.
What most surprised me? Their use of explosive devices which they threw over the wall.
The most significant problem? We did not know we were in danger. We couldn’t see armed terrorists approaching the fence. No one warned us in real time of terrorists. It turned out that we were 11 soldiers with orders not to shoot facing almost 5000 Palestinian terrorists who reached the fence.”
In other words, our general staff, commanders on the ground, and the accompanying legal officers from the military prosecutor’s office, completely neutered our soldiers once again exposing them to mortal danger.
As we reported yesterday, all of the violence directed against our soldiers had absolutely no effect on our absurdly idiotic government. Blackmail money continued to be dispersed by the Qataris in Gaza, and the Kerem Shalom Crossing opened even wider for the shipment of goods into Gaza–including items that had been blocked for months such as computers and other electrical devices.
However, at least one government reacted . . . the Egyptian government. Following the violence and the shooting of Staff Sgt. Shmueli, the Egyptians announced that they were closing down the Rafah Crossing from Gaza into Egypt indefinitely. In doing so, they let it be known that the reason was because Hamas encouragement of violence violated the agreements Hamas had with Egypt.
Meanwhile, Staff Sgt. Shmueli remains in extremely critical condition in an induced-coma following intensive brain surgery.
Yesterday, some of his fellow fighters arrived at Soroka Hospital and sang this prayer for healing at his bedside:
Sickeningly, not one government official or IDF senior officer came to the hospital. Where were PM Bennett, FM Lapid, “Defense Minister” Gantz, and IDF Chief of Staff Kochavi?
As usual, nowhere to be seen.
Nitza Barel, the mother of the wounded soldier, reported this morning on Israel radio that PM Bennett called her home in the middle of last night, but did not even know the name of her son. She angrily demanded to know why her son had been placed on the border with orders not to shoot.
Staff Sgt. Barel Shmueli: please continue to pray for his recovery.
A student from Malawi, who had worked with an Israeli health volunteer in his country battling AIDS, came up to us as we walked down the street in the UC-Davis Picnic Day Parade and wanted to carry the Israeli flag.