ISRAELI SOLDIER TESTIFIES TO MIRACLE IN GAZA

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small;">'</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I would not have been surprised if there were dozens of dead'</span></h2> <h2 style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 1px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the many Israeli soldiers who have been dispatched to Gaza over the years to eliminate rocket-launching equipment and lower the threat of destruction to Israeli citizens has testified to the miracles he witnessed.</span></span></h2> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <a href="http://cdn.jewsnews.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/6196.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="6" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-394636" src="http://www.jewsnews.co.il/wp-content/plugins/wp-mobile-detector//timthumb.php?src=%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F08%2F6196.jpg&w=250" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 5px 20px 20px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;" /></span></a></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such as a day of firefights, explosions and terror, with the only resulting injury a scratch that was handled with a baby wipe.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The testimony comes from Ariel Siegelman, who was with an Israel campaign a few years ago.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The same issue, arose, however, in recent weeks in a conflict between Israel and Gaza that erupted when Hamas fighters in Gaza began a rocket attack on next-door Israel.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">WND reported then that an operator of Israel’s Iron Dome missile-defense system said he personally witnessed the “hand of God” diverting an incoming rocket.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Israel Today translated a report from a Hebrew-language news site, which noted the Iron Dome battery failed three times to intercept an incoming rocket headed toward Tel Aviv.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The commander recalled: “A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s equivalent of the Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have died.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency services to converge on the target location and had warned of a mass-casualty incident.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that … sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and shouted, ‘There is a God!’</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I witnessed this miracle with my own eyes. It was not told or reported to me. I saw the hand of God send that missile into the sea.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The story has similarities to Siegelman’s account of his excursion into Gaza during an earlier conflict.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He joined the special forces of the Israeli Defense Forces and was among hundreds dispatched at that time.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He recalls being asked about his dog tags, identifying numbers used to link a name to what’s left after a bombing.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then he was handed a laminated card with a prayer for going to battle, and a rabbi “yells at the top of his lungs,” “You are the army of Israel, and you’re going to war. You will not be afraid because God is going out to war with you.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then came the battle.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“It was like walking into hell,” Siegelman said. “The world is full of explosions, full of smoke. It was war.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Such was the violence that he said he would not have been surprised “if there were dozens of dead men.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Personnel carriers with open hatches littered the hillside.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“How many people got killed?” he asked his commander.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Nobody,” came the reply.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 7px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FOR THE REST CLICK <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/08/israeli-soldier-testifies-to-miracle-in-gaza/#ay0z8XAw1mkezo82.99" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">WND</a></span></div> <div class="ko-social-bar mobile" style="background-color: #eeeeee; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 19px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 974px;"> <div class="facebook-ko-sharebutton" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 468px;"> <div class=" fb_reset" id="fb-root" style="background-image: none; border-spacing: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: auto; direction: ltr; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible; word-spacing: normal;"> <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: -10000px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 0px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

ISRAELI SOLDIER TESTIFIES TO MIRACLE IN GAZA

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