[Ynet News] Jonathan D. Halevi - The Goldstone report accuses Israel of an air strike on the Maqadmah mosque in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on January 3, 2009, which caused the deaths of "at least 15 Palestinians." During a confrontation at Brandeis University on Nov. 5, 2009, with Amb. Dore Gold, Judge Richard Goldstone presented the incident as a salient example of Israel's policy of deliberately targeting innocent civilians. What really happened at the Ibrahim al-Maqadmah mosque, named for one of the heads of Hamas' military-terrorist wing? If the commission had examined the names of the Palestinians killed at the Maqadmah mosque, they would have discovered the membership of many of them in terrorist organizations. Seven of the 15 Palestinians killed at the mosque were members of terrorist organizations who had participated in fighting the IDF, most of them members of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military-terrorist wing, and a few from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It was reported that one of them, Ahmed Abu Ita of the al-Qassam Brigades, had gone to the Maqadmah mosque to meet "friends," i.e., other armed terrorist operatives. The mosques in Gaza are engaged in a "suicide bombing competition" to determine which one bred the greatest number of bombers. The dubious title is held, apparently, by the Al-Khufla al-Rashidoun mosque in Jabaliya (not far from the Maqadmah mosque), which for years has been called the "fortress of the suicide bombers."
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