יום שישי, 26 באוקטובר 2012

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Shimon Peres sends greetings to Arabs for Eid al Adha

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:53 PM PDT

Israel's President Shimon Peres put out a greeting for Eid al Adha on his Facebook page:

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This was even noticed by Islamic Jihad newspaper Palestine Today, where Peres is quoted as saying ""The festival of Sacrifice is a great occasion and also is a big opportunity in order to work on closer relations and promote good neighborly ties between us to live together with love and equality with respect for the culture of the other."

And more links. So many more. Really.

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:00 PM PDT

You can't have too many links...

My Country is Under Attack. Do You Care? at HuffPo Canada:
I'm angry that while the United Nations never hesitates to call a 'special emergency session' on the 'Question of Palestine' or pass the umpteenth resolution blindly condemning Israel, that I am still waiting for a session on the 'Question of Israel' and Palestinian terror. In fact, 24 hours after the rocket attacks started, I am still waiting for even one syllable of condemnation from the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly or Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

I'm angry that Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary-General, could not find a moment to condemn the Palestinian rockets, but did find time to laugh and dance with South Korean rapper Psy from the popular dance craze Gangnam Style.

I'm angry that while the EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton slammed Israel last week over the building of several hundred apartments (in an area that will arguably remain part of Israel anyway), that I am still waiting for her to slam the Palestinians for firing 80 rockets in one day.

Photo from the Guardian  above proves Hamas fires rockets from densely populated neighborhoods (h/t Yaakov Lozowick)

A "normal" day in southern Israel:



Israeli-developed smartphone gives the blind new-found access to apps

The "Apartheid" poll at Ha'aretz is "spin at its worst" - but beyond that, Avi Mayer looks at the actual poll results and tears Ha'aretz apart for actively trying to make Israelis look racist. Also, NGO Monitor follows the money.

UN "Human Rights Council" calls to boycott American companies that do business in Israel


Lawfare Project Strongly Denounces Arab Lawyers Union (ALU) for Honoring Suicide Bomber

BDSFail:
The European parliament voted on Tuesday by a margin of 379-240 to remove controls on the sale of Israeli pharmaceuticals within the EU.

The passing of the bill means that Israeli pharmaceuticals can be exported to any EU nation without delays and without requiring any additional certification.

British Jews cringing at new reality TV shows that make them look like cartoons

Boycott Watch asks Pepsi about the Gaza sponsorships I reported on (without credit, alas)and does not get any satisfactory answers.

It could be done better, and the joke's been done before, but the Flotilla Cruise Line page is still pretty funny.

Is there a Churchill in the house? (h/t Josh K)
Few know of Vice President Joe Biden's many attempts to delay or dilute sanctions against Iran. Bloggers in DC used to refer to Biden as the mullah's "favorite senator." Back in 2007, Biden, then-senator and -chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, blocked a Senate vote on H.Con.Res.21, which called for the US to initiate measures to indict the Iranian leadership for its incitement to genocide, suppression of human rights, terror and nuclear enrichment.

Lebanon risks being torn apart by Syrian conflict (BBC)

Tunisia's last Jews (BBC, h/t John W)

An Arab-Israeli company pioneering in solar energy. Will they be able to sell to poor Arab countries?

Happy Birthday Bibi, from all of your good friends! (h/t Yerushalimey)

Backlash against Morsi's mosque visit

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 12:15 PM PDT

From MEMRI:
In his daily column, Dr. Osama Al-Ghazali Harb of the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram discussed a MEMRI TV clip that shows Egyptian President Muhammad Mursi attending Friday prayers on October 19, 2012, at a mosque in the city of Marsa Matrouh, nodding his head and answering "amen" as the preacher curses "the Jews."

Over the past two days, MEMRI 'caught' a fat fish, which it is now streaming worldwide via the Internet: a television clip of President Mursi during his last visit to [the northwestern city of] Marsa Matrouh. [Mursi is seen] sitting in the front row amongst the congregants of the Al-Tana'im Mosque, listening resignedly to a Friday sermon by Sheikh Futouh 'Abd Al-Nabi Mansour, head of the Islamic Endowment in Marsa Matrouh.
"As usual, Sheikh Mansour concludes his sermon, in the presence of President Mursi, of course, with the following supplication: 'Oh Allah, absolve us of our sins, strengthen us, and grant us victory over the infidels. Oh Allah, deal with the Jews and their supporters. Oh Allah, disperse them, rend them asunder. Oh Allah, demonstrate Your might and greatness upon them. Show us Your omnipotence, oh Lord.' Of course, Mursi nodded his head, mumbling 'amen' along with the congregants after each supplication [against the Jews].

MEMRI is now streaming this scene on the Internet and distributing it around the world with audio and video, and with English subtitles. This is very embarrassing to the president. I do not know how the honorable president would respond if asked: 'Do you agree with what Sheikh Futouh said?' If he says no, it is a problem, and if he says yes, it is an even bigger problem. I believe that no one will ask the president this question, but the case and its implications will not go over well [with Western viewers], since this matter embodies the massive gap that still exists between the official contractual obligation for peace with Israel, and the popular objection to this [peace] agreement. As part of his official duty, the president must respect the agreement, as he has stated many times, but he also cannot disconnect from the prevailing popular mood. This is a complex problem that must be dealt with more wisely. Furthermore, it is important to be well prepared for such events.

As for Sheikh Futouh, I do not know if his honor knows that his name, voice, and image are now circling the globe [and spreading] on wide-reaching social networks, and that he is being accused, whether directly or indirectly, of antisemitism. [Publishing his words and image around the world] did not even occur to him, and he might not have even heard of it.
That is refreshing, and it is not the only bad feedback to this episode from the Muslim world.

Egypt's Al Azhar came out with an opinion that it is not permissible for imams to curse "Jews" or "Christians" as a whole. Other scholars agreed, and if I am reading it correctly even the infamous Yusuf Qaradawi sayd you can pray for the destruction of Jewish usurpers, but not Jews. Apparently Saudi Arabia (perhaps shamed by older MEMRI clips) also came out against similar hate in mosques.

Reports about the MEMRI story have been published throughout the Arabic-language media.

Thursday links. Come and get 'em!

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 10:45 AM PDT

From Ian:
Ignoring the real bloodshed in Syria by focusing on Israel by Alex Ryvchin - NGO Monitor
"This week, Oxfam, Crisis Action and other NGOs will send delegations to Brussels to lobby the European Parliament in the political campaign to single out Israel by labelling goods that originate from Israeli settlements on the eastern side of the "Green Line." This is the 1949 armistice line that arbitrarily marked where Jordanian and Israeli forces were located at the end of the 1948 war, and has no legal significance. This political event is funded by the government of Denmark, whose support for boycotting Israel and failure to implement similar measures against Syrian products reveals the same hypocrisy and poor judgment as the NGOs it's hosting in Brussels this week."

U.S. State Department Strengthening Hamas by Khaled Abu Toameh
"The Emir of Qatar's visit to the Gaza Strip is a huge diplomatic victory for Hamas and a severe blow to the moderate Palestinians and the Palestinian Authority. The emir did not come to the Gaza Strip to try to persuade Hamas to abandon terror and recognize Israel's right to exist. Nor did he come to the Gaza Strip to tell Hamas to endorse democracy and stop its oppressive measures against Palestinians, especially women."

America's foes get away with murder
"So here are a few conclusions that should, by now, be apparent: 1) Iran's rulers collaborate with al-Qaida, a terrorist organization with which the Obama administration says we are at war; 2) Iran's rulers, the world's leading sponsors of terrorism, do not hesitate to plot terrorism on American soil, confident they will pay no price; 3) Iran's rulers are pursuing a nuclear weapons capability and, if they achieve that goal, will become much bolder and more dangerous.
It's time we grasped this, too: Swatting mosquitoes and shooting the occasional crocodile takes you only so far. At some point it becomes necessary to devise a strategy to drain the swamp."

Turkey: Another emerging Islamist autocracy By Isi Leibler
Candidly Speaking: Bernard Lewis predicted that Turkey would evolve into an aggressive Islamist dictatorship and could become the greatest threat to Israel. Alas, his prediction about Turkey is being realized.

UN Watch: UN's 9/11 conspiracist calls for boycott of HP, Volvo, Motorola & Caterpillar
Falk was just condemned by the British government for his "anti-Semitic" remarks, with the Foreign Office delivering a protest to the U.N. that expressed London's "serious concerns" over his "unacceptable" comments. UN Watch urged the U.S., France, Germany and other democracies to follow suit by taking the floor today to condemn Falk's anti-Jewish remarks.

Silence on Gaza rockets gives terror a green light, Israeli envoy warns UN
"Ron Prosor warned Security Council members that if they don't condemn the rocket attacks, "there could be tragic consequences" because Hamas and other terrorists will interpret the silence "as a green light for terror and provocation."

Daphne Anson Angling For An Apology: Britons Battling The Balfour Declaration
"So runs a silly doomed-for-the-dustbin e-petition to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office concocted last year by an anti-Israel activist. Tweeted at intervals by its framer, who also happens to head a small Palestine Solidarity Campaign branch somewhere in the British boondocks, the e-petition closed in August this year, having attracted just 155 signatures."

Obama's Benghazi Investigator: An Iran Sympathizer
"The problem is that Pickering has ties to the pro-Iran Islamist front group known as the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). NIAC lost an important defamation case in federal court last month in which it unsuccessfully argued the group was not a tool of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

SBS Dateline Tourism on Trial (Video)
As Egypt's tourist industry already struggles post-revolution, some Islamists want the Pyramids covered and people segregated.

MEMRI TV Host Yahya Abu Zakariya to Terrorists: No Black-Eyed Virgins Await You in Paradise.

The part where he reveals what the virgins look like is a LOL moment.



PMW Scriptwriter on PA TV: Israel is "foreign entity" implanted in Greater Syria



Jewish Schoolboy in France Attacked, Insulted in Arabic
Two men assaulted a Jewish schoolboy in Paris' 19th arrondissement Monday. According to a report on JTA, the two men hurled insults in Arabic at the 12 year-old boy, whipped him with a belt and told him to remain silent.

Israeli flag burned in front of Budapest synagogue
Ultranationalist party suspected; Hungary issues statement condemning anti-Semitism

Hillary Sides With Anti-Semitic Ukrainian Opposition

Elbit Systems wins $25m Brazilian order
Brazilian subsidiary Ares will supply its Remax remote controlled weapons stations to the Brazilian Army over two years.
"Elbit System said that this was its second Brazilian contract in a month, after another Brazilian subsidiary AEL Sistemas SA won a $15 million order to supply unmanned turrets to the Brazilian Army."

The Israeli company that clothes the world's athletes
Tefron is now set to manufacture apparel for one of the most respected athletic gear brands in the world
"And XTS is just as impressed with Tefron, said CEO Bodo W. Lambertz. "Like XTS, we find Tefron to be among the most technologically advanced companies in the apparel industry. We, therefore, chose Tefron because they have the sophistication in their manufacturing to produce our unique sportswear products and because they have established a reputation for innovative athletic wear that we believe will best serve to develop the North American market" for XTS products, he said."
These are enough links for now...but stay tuned.

Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai, Zionism's Sephardic Father

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 09:00 AM PDT

This is extraordinarily cool. From Michael Freund in JPost:
This month's anniversary of the passing in October 1878 (4 Tishrei on the Hebrew calendar) of Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai, a Sephardi Jew from Serbia, presents an opportunity to correct the record and restore the Sephardi impact on Zionist renewal to its rightful place.

While his name may not be overly familiar to most Israelis, his intellectual legacy laid the groundwork for the modern rebirth of Israel.

Though he was born in Sarajevo in 1798, Alkalai's formative years were spent in Jerusalem, where he delved into ancient Jewish texts and became steeped in Jewish mysticism.

At the young age of 27, he was offered the post of rabbi in the town of Zemun, which is today part of the Serbian capital of Belgrade. At the time, however, it fell within the boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and straddled the border of Turkish-occupied Serbia.
[...]
Within a decade, in 1834, he produced a booklet called Shema Yisrael (Hear, O Israel) proposing something which at the time was considered radical: to create Jewish colonies in the land of Israel as a prelude to redemption.

In other words, Rabbi Alkalai advocated that man take action to bring about Jewish national emancipation.

This notion ran counter to conventional wisdom, which primarily believed that Jews should wait passively for Messianic deliverance.

Nonetheless, he developed the concept further, writing additional books and pamphlets and traveling throughout Europe to spread his message.

IN HIS 1845 work Minhat Yehudah, Rabbi Alkalai wrote, "In the first conquest, under Joshua, the Almighty brought the children of Israel into a land that was prepared: its houses were then full of useful things, its wells were giving water, and its vineyards and olive groves were laden with fruit. This new Redemption will – alas, because of our sins – be different: our land is waste and desolate, and we shall have to build houses, dig wells, and plant vines and olive trees."

"Redemption," he wrote, "must come slowly. The land must, by degrees, be built up and prepared."

To accomplish this, Rabbi Alkalai offered novel, and highly prescient, suggestions, which included the launch of a national fund to purchase land in Israel, the convening of a "Great Assembly" to oversee Jewish national affairs, and a redoubling of efforts to revive Hebrew as a spoken language.

At a time when many Jews were beginning to despair after centuries of persecution, Rabbi Alkalai offered concrete hope.

More importantly, by highlighting practical measures that Jews could take, he empowered people throughout the Jewish world to become involved in a national act of self-redemption which would engender Divine mercy. In 1874, at the age of 76, Rabbi Alkalai and his wife made aliya, settling in Jerusalem to fulfill his life-long dream. He passed away four years later.
[...]

In one of those curious twists of fate that even the most inventive novelist could not contrive, one of Rabbi Alkalai's faithful congregants and most ardent disciples was a man named Simon Loeb Herzl, whose grandson Theodor would later alter the course of Zionist and Jewish history.

Is it possible that Simon Loeb came home from synagogue on the Sabbath, fired up by the rabbi's sermon about the need for Jews to head to Zion, and shared this passion with his offspring?...

"We, as a people, are properly called Israel," he once wrote, "only in the land of Israel... Though this venture will begin modestly, its future will be very great."

Here is a passage from one of Rabbi Alkalai's works:
Now we pray every day: Let our eyes behold Thy return to Zion in mercy, and if we believe our own words, then upon whom will the Divine Presence become manifest? Upon the trees and the rocks?

Therefore, as the first step to the beginning of redemption of our souls we must return to the Land twenty-two thousand (Jews), the Holy One Blessed Be He to cause the Divine Presence to descend upon them. This most certainly will be followed by His showing us and all of Israel beneficial signs.

Such an idea is hinted at in the Torah: And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem... and he bought the parcel of ground where he spread his tent. Why did Jacob buy the land if his only intention was to rest there for a time and then continue on to see his father, Isaac? It is apparent that this act was realized to teach his descendants that the redemption would come about by purchasing the land from its inhabitants. Because he bought the parcel of land it was as if he lived (permanently) on it.

More so, the redemption from Egypt brought the people of Israel to a good and spacious land, one whose wells were already dug, and whose vineyards and olive groves were already planted. Yet, because of our sins, the Land is now empty and desolate and we must, for this redemption, build the houses and dig the wells and plant the vineyards and the olive groves.
According to this article at The Jewish Agency, the town of Ohr Yehuda near Tel Aviv is named after Alkalai.


Jordanian Islamists protesting peace with Israel

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

There was a protest organized by the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan for the 18th anniversary of the 1994 peace agreement with Israel, known as the Wadi Araba treaty.

Held near the Israeli embassy, the Islamists held signs saying "No Zionist Embassy on Jordanian ground," "the liberation of Palestine requires resistance and jihad," "Araba is a stain on the faces of merchants", in addition to the "people want to overthrow Araba."

Speeches were made denouncing Jordan sending an ambassador to Israel and denouncing any form of normalization with Israel.


There was a similar protest last Friday, also outside the embassy, where Israeli and American flags were burned.

Members of the tribe of the new Jordanian ambassador to Israel placed black flags of mourning in front of their houses when he was officially received by President Peres.

I hope that the Israel embassy security in Jordan is top notch, as it seems all too possible that these protests could morph into an attack on the embassy itself, as we saw last year in Cairo when the Israelis there were almost lynched.

The threat from Jordan's Islamists cannot be minimized. From AP:
[T]his week's announcement that Jordanian authorities had thwarted an al-Qaida plan to attack shopping malls and Western diplomatic missions in the country has raised fears that extremists could take advantage of growing calls for change to foment violence.

The king also has been working overtime to fend off a host of domestic challenges, including a Muslim Brotherhood boycott of parliamentary elections, increasing opposition from his traditional Bedouin allies and an inability to keep the Syrian civil war from spilling over the border.

So far, Abdullah has largely maintained control, partly by relinquishing some of his powers to parliament and amending the country's 60-year-old constitution. His Western-trained security forces have been able to keep protests from getting out of hand. And most in the opposition remain loyal to the king, pressing for reforms but not his removal.

The stakes are high: Abdullah is a close friend of the United States and has been at the forefront in its global war on terrorism, including in Afghanistan. Jordan serves as a buffer zone to Saudi Arabia, another Sunni Muslim country, and to Israel, a friend under a peace treaty signed in 1994. The kingdom hosts the largest Palestinian population outside the West Bank.

"The worst nightmare would be for Israel and Saudi Arabia," said liberal lawmaker Jamil Nimri. "Jordan shares the longest border with Israel and is one of its few remaining Arab friends, while for the Saudis, it's a neighboring country with a similar monarchy system in trouble."

(h/t Lachlan, Washington Guardian)

So what happened in Sudan? And is there an Iranian nuclear link?

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 04:59 AM PDT

Lots of noise but very few hard facts:
Sudan claims this is an unexploded Israeli rocket, doesn't seem likely.
Sudan said on Wednesday that an Israeli air strike had caused the huge explosion and fire at an arms factory in Khartoum that killed two people, but Defense Minister Ehud Barak declined to comment.

Sudan, which analysts say is used as an arms-smuggling route to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip via neighboring Egypt, has blamed Israel for such strikes in the past, but Israel has either refused to comment or said it neither admitted or denied involvement.

Asked by Israel's Channel Two News about Sudan's accusations, Barak said: "There is nothing I can say about this subject."

A huge fire broke out late on Tuesday at the Yarmouk arms factory in the south of the capital which was rocked by several explosions, witnesses said. Firefighters took more than two hours to extinguish the fire at Sudan's main factory for ammunition and small arms.

"Four military planes attacked the Yarmouk plant ... We believe that Israel is behind it," Information Minister Ahmed Belal Osman told reporters, adding that the planes appeared to approach the site from the east.

"Sudan reserves the right to strike back at Israel," he said, adding that two citizens had been killed and the plant had been partially destroyed. Another person was seriously injured, he said.
JE Dyer has some analysis:
Media reporting has suggested for more than a decade that Iran set up an arms factory in Sudan in the 1990s. (US intelligence suspected a Sudanese factory of producing weaponizable chemical agents in the '90s, and the Sudanese government of complicity in supplying al Qaeda. This led to a Tomahawk missile attack on the factory by Bill Clinton after the 1998 attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Iran was not implicated by US intelligence in this installation.) Tehran is Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir's chief foreign patron – well suited to his penchant for atrocities against his non-Muslim population – and of course is also the main supplier of arms to Hamas and Hezbollah.

Members of the Sudanese opposition have told reporters the arms factory that was hit was Iranian-sponsored. This is very probable, and it is equally probable that the attack was, in fact, conducted by the IAF. Sudan to Egypt to Gaza is a known arms route, and during Operation Cast Lead in 2009, when Israeli forces were going after Hamas in the wake of more than 4400 rocket attacks from Gaza up through December 2008, two arms convoys intended for Hamas were attacked on the roads through northern Sudan. Another convoy for Hamas was reportedly attacked in Sudan in December of 2011. (A peculiar report from early 2009 also suggested that a ship – possibly carrying arms – had been sunk in or near a Sudanese port. While fun to analyze, the report could not be considered definitive.)

Cutting off the flow of Iranian arms to Hamas is clearly a national security interest for Israel. The 24 October attack may or may not have been launched "because of" the rocket barrage from Hamas; it was certainly planned much earlier, but was probably executable on short notice, pending the weather conditions. Perhaps a more reliable construction to put on the Yarmouk attack, however, is that Israel sees a need to accomplish something more definitive than interdicting convoys. The time has come to administer a setback from which Hamas – and Iran – can't recover quickly.

Another consideration for Israel may be that the window for unopposed action in Sudan might close in the not-too-distant future. Getting strike-fighters into Sudan means routing them over the Red Sea and keeping an airborne tanker aloft there, with its own fighter protection. Saudi Arabia and Jordan have the means to know the IAF aircraft are there, but they aren't likely to interfere with Israeli attacks on Iranian arms facilities or arms bound for Hamas.

Egypt, however, also has the means to know the IAF aircraft are operating – and Egypt's posture could well be changing. Mohammed Morsi is not a naïve target for an Iranian charm offensive, but for his own reasons – Islamist ideology and his designs on Jerusalem – he will reach the point at which he will not be willing to stand by quietly for Israeli operations in Sudan.
Debka, always entertaining but only sometimes accurate, claims:
Complex of military plants near Khartoum, whicht was bombed five minutes after midnight Wednesday, Oct. 24, by four fighter-bombers, recently went into manufacturing Iranian ballistic surface-to-surface Shehab missiles under license from Tehran, DEBKAfile's military and intelligence sources disclose. Western intelligence sources have not revealed what types of Shehab were being turned out in Sudan but they believe the Yarmouk's output was intended to serve as Tehran's strategic reserve stock in case Iran's ballistic arsenal was hit by Israeli bombers.
Haaretz quotes Al Arabiya:
An Islamist responsible for supplying weapons to Hamas was apparently among the two people killed in a missile strike near the main port city of Sudan this week, the Al-Arabiya news network reported on Wednesday citing various sources.
And in a separate analysis:
Opposition sources in Sudan claim that the arms factory bombed overnight Tuesday in south Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, belongs to Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

..What was not said by the Sudanese authorities, who provided a plethora of confusing and conflicting reports (even regarding the number of casualties), was information regarding the factory itself. In recent years, several reports published in the Arab media said that Iran's Revolutionary Guard built weapons manufacturing plants together with the Sudanese government.

However, their military cooperation does not end with the establishment of one military plant, and even senior Sudanese officials have not denied in the past that Iran has military factories on their land.

In fact, according to foreign reports, the arms factories that Iran built in Sudan were meant to arm Hamas.
But here is one wrinkle I was not aware of, from Sudan Tribune:
Sudanese authorities shut down the opposition-affiliated Ray Al-Sha'b newspaper in May 2010 after it published a report talking about the construction of an Iranian weapon factory in Sudan as part of military cooperation between the two countries to produce nuclear weapons.

Could some of the components of a nuclear weapon or delivery system have been outsourced to this Sudanese factory? It appears to me that attacking a factory is, politically, a much riskier move by Israel than attacking arms convoys, and risking the lives of civilians nearby is also an unlikely move by Israel to temporarily disrupt Hamas arms smuggling. But if a major component of a nuclear weapon or nuclear-capable missile is being built there - away from inspectors and sanctions - then such an operation becomes well worthwhile.

It is only speculation. But then again, so is everything else.

Anatomy of a "work accident"

Posted: 25 Oct 2012 02:11 AM PDT

On September 30, Hamas announced the death of one of its terrorists, Mohammed Abdulah Hamad, who was killed "doing his Jihadist duty." But they gave no details on how he died.

According to the Gaza NGO Safety Office:
On 30 Sept., a Hamas operative died due to a tunnel collapse in Nuseirat Camp.
What is the Nuseirat camp?

It is a crowded UNRWA camp right in the middle of Gaza:


It is not near any border with Egypt or Israel.

So any "tunnel" being built there is really an underground weapons depot, where Hamas hides rockets and explosives. And they are deliberately building these terror bunkers directly under the feet of tens of thousands of Gaza civilians, in a camp that was established by the UN.

Keep in mind that Hamas controls all of Gaza, including the areas that are not crowded at all (as you can see from the photo, there is still plenty of green surrounding the camp.)  They choose quite deliberately to build their terror infrastructure in such a way that civilians are acting as human shields.

Not that Human Rights Watch will notice it.
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