HAMAS ARMED WING CANCELLED ATTACK TO AVOID KILLING ISRAELI CHILDREN

Gaza, 27 Jumadil Awwal 1436/18 March 2015 (MINA) – A videotaped soundtrack released Monday evening (16/3) by al-Qassam Brigades on Twitter showed that resistance fighters cancelled a bombing operation to avoid killing Israeli children.

The al-Qassam resistance Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas Movement, said the footage has been inspired by “real events that took place in the latest Israeli offensive on Gaza,” Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic New Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The Hamas resistance fighters were captured on the two-minute recording as cancelling a military operation during last summer’s Israeli aggression on the besieged coastal enclave due to the presence of Israeli children near an Israeli military target.

The video further relays live snapshots of Israeli raids on Palestinian civilian homes in war-battered Gaza which took away the lives of innocent civilians, mostly women and children, and left others seriously wounded.

The soundtrack comes as part of the weeklong interactive campaign starting last Friday on social media under the hashtag #AskHamas to express the group’s positions regarding a set of crucial issues and to motivate westerners to rescind blacklisting of Hamas as a terror group. (T/P006/R03)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)