Israel has the right to defense and existence, while Hamas uses the schools and hospitals financed with Western funds as command centers and munitions depots, foreign policy expert Mihai Isac stated in a public debate hosted by IPN. According to him, the war between Israel and the Hamas militants is divided into a surface war and an underground war, IPN reports.
According to Mihai Isac, the Hamas terrorists created sophisticated underground warfare and use the civilian population as a shield and social infrastructure as military command centers.
“The right to defense of the state of Israel cannot be denied. The right to existence can no way be denied. Hamas, instead of using the received money for the wellbeing of the own population, uses it to create terrorist infrastructure and to localize a part of the population. For example, the families of the suicide terrorists receive financing for life and this financing grows proportionally to the number of Israeli victims. Hamas uses hospitals and schools financed by the UN as centers of command, for storing munitions, for keeping hostages and for lodging own militaries. A part of the population, voluntarily or owing to propaganda or forced by the circumstances, has to stay there,” said Mihai Isac.
According to the expert, Israel repeatedly called on the civil population to leave the area, but owing to indoctrination, many people choose voluntarily to be part of the war.
“The state of Israel phones the Palestinian citizens or sends messages to them to tell them to leave. What we see in Gaza is a surface war and we see destroyed buildings. But there is also an underground war. What Hamas did was to build a huge system of fortifications. From military viewpoint, it is very hard to fight this war in bunkers. The state of Israel, to protect its own soldiers, uses advanced military equipment, such as bombs that destroy the underground infrastructure of Hamas,” stated Mihai Isac.
The public debate entitled “Humankind between Terrorism, Compassion and Interests” was the 293rd installment of IPN’s project “Developing Political Culture through Public Debates” that is supported by the Hanns Seidel Foundation of Germany.
