Jewish Gaza Capital ‘Hamas Terror Camp’
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‘Like making a holy place into total filth’
Al-Zahar warned Hamas would launch terror attacks to drive Israel from the West Bank, and ultimately from the entire Jewish state.
That Hamas is in control on the ground in Neve Dekalim shows the Palestinian Authority is too weak or unwilling to fight the terror group, a spokesperson for Israel’s foreign ministry told WND.
The news of a Hamas terror camp in their former city saddened expelled Jewish residents of Neve Dekalim.
“Dror Venunu, former director of the Gush Katif Development Fund and a Dekalim resident, told WND,
‘This is the ultimate insult. I didn’t have one illusion the Palestinians would use our town to build something good. We warned about this to the Israeli population, that giving Gush Katif will reward all the terror organizations. Still, to hear where my home once stood is now a Hamas terror camp is very difficult and sickening. This is like making a holy place into total filth.'”
“Rachel Sapperstein, a former Dekalim community leader, told WND, ‘I had not expected anything less from the Palestinians. I would have assumed they would take our beautiful homes, synagogues, and schools and turn them into centers for terror.'”
“Sapperstein said prior to Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza she was in the planning stages for a new girls’ dormitory to be constructed in Neve Dekalim in the memory of the first Gush Katif resident killed in a terror attack.”
“‘I thank God I didn’t build that dormitory,” Sapperstein said, ‘because my heart would shatter if I knew that from it would come a Hamas training camp.'”