The IDF Spokesman's Unit continues to make its case via the internationally popular YouTube video website, presenting Hamas terrorists firing rockets from within residential areas.
The IDF videos, which can be seen at youtube.com/idfnadesk, include footage of precision air-strikes on mosques serving as rocket storehouses and launching grounds, strikes on Hamas terrorists loading rockets onto a vehicle, IDF ground troops, humanitarian aid entering Gaza via Israeli crossings, and background on the anti-terror offensive that Israel initiated nearly two weeks ago.
The most recent video, taken Wednesday of this week, shows how Hamas fires rockets from within civilian residential areas – and the way the IDF responds. Anti-aircraft guns are seen camouflaged on the roof of a residential house, and a Hamas terrorist is seen firing mortar shells from another civilian rooftop. A dramatic strike at an anti-aircraft gun in the back of a pick-up truck is also seen.
Rocket launchers located in between civilian houses can also be seen, followed by an air-strike on weapons storage facilities under houses near the Egyptian border. Secondary explosions can clearly be seen when the underground explosives catch fire.
Finally, the IDF cameras capture a mortar shell being fired from the premises of a mosque – though no Israeli response is seen on this clip.
At least one of the videos, showing the bombing of a group of terrorists loading Grad Katyushas onto a truck and then being obliterated by an Israel Air Force strike, was briefly censored by the YouTube administrators. However, after wide publication of the censorship, including on IsraelNationalNews, the video is now back up on the YouTube site.