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2018-12-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Hamas: Israeli special forces posed as medical workers to get into Gaza for Nov. 11 raid
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[IsraelTimes] Terror group tells UK’s Independent daily that IDF soldiers used fake IDs to enter Strip in November, were caught because of their accents.
Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, officials have told a British news outlet that Israeli special forces troops posed as medical workers for a non-governmental organization during a raid inside the Gazoo Strip last month that went awry.
On the night of November 11, the Israeli unit was exposed inside the southern Gazoo city of Khan Younis following a search at a Hamas checkpoint, resulting in a firefight in which an Israeli lieutenant colonel was killed, along with seven Paleostinian button men.
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According to a report Monday in the Independent newspaper, the Israeli troops used "detailed but fake" identity cards with the names and personal information of Paleostinians living in the Gazoo Strip.
"Those who the Israelis were posing as were detained but they had no idea their names had been used," Hazem Qassem, a Hamas front man, told the British paper from Gazoo City. The Paleostinians whose names were found to have been unwittingly used were later released, he said.
According to the Hamas officials, the Israeli troops posed as medical workers, ferrying patients around the area.
"[The Israeli unit] were posing as NGO workers, there were women in the car as well. They used this to justify why they were stealing into Gazoo and had a story prepared should they be questioned," one official said.
Paleostinian officials have claimed the Israeli troops were installing surveillance equipment in the Gazoo Strip in order to listen in on Hamas’s internal communications.
The Independent acknowledged that it was unable to corroborate much of the information provided by the Hamas officials about the Israeli raid. The Israel Defense Forces has confirmed that special forces soldiers conducted an operation on the night in question but would not provide any details besides that it was of great importance to national security.
During the raid on the night of November 11, the troops were stopped at a Hamas checkpoint and questioned. During their interrogation, the Hamas button men noticed that the alleged Israeli soldiers’ accents did not match the addresses listed on their ID cards.
"They told the fighters at the checkpoint that they were delivering patients back from clinics to their homes and had a wheelchair in the back of the van. They presented their ID cards but the [fighters] manning the checkpoint were suspicious as their accents and voices did not match the areas where they said they were from," a Hamas official said.
According to the Paleostinian officials, when a more senior Hamas commander decided to bring in the suspects for additional questioning, the Israeli special forces soldiers opened fire, killing the senior commander, Nour Barakeh, and his deputy.
During the firefight and dash to the border, the Israeli lieutenant colonel ‐ who can only be identified by the first Hebrew letter of his name, "Mem" ‐ was killed and another officer was maimed. Five other Paleostinian button men were also killed.
A Hamas official said the Gazoo-ruling group had significantly tightened security throughout the Strip ‐ a development confirmed by journalists and NGO workers in the coastal enclave.
"We are concerned that we want foreigners to keep coming in. They are helping with the humanitarian situation. We are dedicated to facilitating people coming in and out of Gazoo. Any tightened security measures ‐ which are applied to everyone ‐ will be temporary," said the official, speaking to the British newspaper on condition of anonymity.
The massive flareup that followed last month’s raid ended with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire that remains in effect some three weeks later.
Members of Hamas and the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
said the groups are prepared to go to war with Israel again, but will for now maintain the calm. 
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