Documente Academic
Documente Profesional
Documente Cultură
flickr.com DiLizZeO
5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
One missile landed between two buildings, completely destroying them but not killing any people. Several missiles aimed at Israel fell into the sea to the west. Another missile was blown off course by a strong wind. Two missiles aimed at the IDF base in the Negev desert landed without causing damage. One missile that fell was discovered to have concrete in place of an explosive warhead.
10. Two missiles fired from Iraq suddenly disappeared! 11. A missile hit a bank, but only one person was in the building at the time. 12. A missile went down an airshaft of a 9-story apartment building with 20-30 apartments; it did not explode. 13. Palestinians stood on their rooftops cheering for Iraq as a barrage of missiles hit Israel. (They were following the lead of Yasser Arafat, who openly supported Saddam's war.) The next day, some missiles landed in their own villages. Israeli media filmed their panicked race to the nearest security station to demand gas masks for themselves. There were no more rooftop celebrations 14. A Tel Aviv man was in his house when a missile hit his garden. He walked out of the house with only minor injuries. 15. An 84-year-old lady was in her house as it was hit by a missile. Not only was she unhurt, but as she
Events
1. No missiles landed in the city of Jerusalem. Any hits in that area (besides threatening life) would have destroyed ancient archeological sites which could never be replaced. (It was reported afterward that the Iraqis had argued about this, and finally decided not to target Jerusalem for fear of hitting the Dome of the Rock.) The first night of the missile strikes against Israel, 27 missiles were fired at once. Patriot missiles knocked out all of them except two. During missile strikes in the West Bank, only injuries were suffered; no lives were lost. A missile landed in a garbage dump but didn't explode. Another missile landed a few feet away from a gas station, but didn't explode.
2.
3. 4.
2011
www.benmelech.org www.punticardinali.com
looked at the devastation she only said, Who's going to help me clean this up? 16. A man walked into his bathroom just as a missile strike began. When he came out, the rest of his house had been destroyed. 17. A lady was in bed during a missile attack. Her ceiling collapsed from a hit, causing the steel door frame to fall over her bed and lean on the wall. Because the frame kept the ceiling off her, she survived. 18. A lady slept so soundly she didn't hear the air raid siren. The exploding missile woke her up, whereupon she rushed to her sealed room. It was gone, blown away by the missile along with the whole side of her house. 19. A man in his sealed room was leaning back against a closet when the force of an explosion knocked him into the closet. The room was heavily damaged, but he was unhurt. He reported, The closet saved my life. 20. A man was buried in rubble standing up. When he was finally dug out after an hour, he was found to need only a bandaid on his forehead. 21. A mother with three small children spontaneously decided to go to the bomb shelter (contrary to government instructions) instead of their sealed room. During that attack, the door to that sealed room was blown open. 22. A family with their 18 month old baby were in a sealed room when the wall collapsed on the baby, who had no protection over it except the plastic infant tent (issued for gas protection). The woman was filmed later in a hospital room holding the baby, who didn't have a scratch on it. 23. A 3-year-old child was seriously injured in the first attack. Although he needed 2 hours of surgery to remove all the glass and shrapnel from his body, he survived. 24. A couple driving in the Negev (southern Israel) saw two missiles in the sky. Their explosions were close enough to make their car shake, but they were unhurt. 25. A Tel Aviv man was driving his car when the air raid sirens sounded. He ran into a nearby home to take shelter. He came out to find that missile fragments had totally destroyed his car. 26. One family had their entire flat sealed rather than one room (against civil defense instructions, as it cuts off ventilation). During the night, the mother collapsed and the children came close to asphyxiation. The cry of one child woke the father who got them all out just in time. 27. Two families whose pets ran away in fright at the sounds of the sirens worried that they might be injured in the attacks. Both families saw their pets return a few hours later unharmed.
28. A family had decided to run for their bomb shelter instead of the sealed room in time of attack (there was public debate as to which was safer). When the attack came, they couldn't find the key to the shelter and were forced to take refuge in their sealed room after all. Their bomb shelter was hit and destroyed.
plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il
29. Two families running for the community bomb shelters couldn't find the key to the first one, so they ran to a second one. The first one was destroyed. 30. Ramat Gan (just north of Tel Aviv) suffered the most in the war 3 or 4 attacks due to the location of strategic military buildings there. None of the missiles hit a building directly, but always fell in the open. The only damage was to property. 31. A couple in Ramat Gan were preparing for the Shabbath, when the wife suddenly got the urge to spend Shabbat elsewhere. The husband resisted at first but finally gave in. When they returned they found their house completely demolished by a missile. The husband (a religious Jew) recited the prayer of thanks for deliverance on the spot, and his neighbors came and danced around the rubble. 32. The seasonal rains, which usually arrive in Israel in November, were nowhere to be seen. Suddenly they began in torrents, on January 17, the first day of the war. They continued almost without letup for the next 4-6 weeks, together with high winds. This weather was credited by U.S. military sources as helping to convince the Iraqis that chemical weapons would not be smart (the prevailing winds were blowing from Israel directly toward Iraq). The same phenomenon was observed in Kuwait (900 km to the east), where wind patterns had shifted from their normal direction for that season and were also blowing toward Iraq. (Jerusalem Post, 2/91) 33. When believers in Yeshua were finally able to meet together alter the war, they discovered that no believers anywhere in Israel had been touched by the attacks. 34. A national day of prayer was called for February 27. The main meeting, held at Jerusalem's Great
2011
www.benmelech.org www.punticardinali.com
Synagogue, was attended by Prime Minister Yitzak Shamir, President Haim Herzog, Religious Affairs Minister Avner Shaki, and both Chief Rabbis. On February 28, Iraq agreed to a UN cease-fire plan. This was also the eve of Purim, the holiday which commemorates the deliverance of the Jews from their enemies through Esther. 35. Neighboring Jordan was a de-facto ally of Iraq during the Gulf War, since their economy is heavily dependent on Iraq. But since relations with Israel had been unofficially warm for many years, they were unwilling to offend either side. Risking Iraqi anger, they went so far as to forbid Iraq to bring missile launchers onto Jordanian soil (using as an excuse Israel's declaration that if Iraq did so, Israel would respond by invading Jordan to get them). This severely limited Iraq's ability to strike at Israel, forcing them to shoot from the southwestern edge of Iraq behind Jordan, hundreds of kilometers away. (Jordanians went on record after the war as saying that the only winner in this war was Israel; and that the Arabs would not live down the humiliation for a hundred years.)
the U.S., therefore, allowed Israel to stay in the background, saving lives and also saving face.
When Saddam Hussein fired his missiles at Israel in January 1991, 39 rockets fell in Israel proper and have done great damage, but not one person was killed! Two people died of a heart attack from fear. The 40th missile accidentally fell in Syria on a house with Syrian soldiers (enemies of Israel) and killed 27 of them. What damage could have done the 39 rockets fired on Israeli towns and villages! But the Lord also guides rockets! We must not forget how He protected us! Psalms 121:4 Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Lamentations 3:22-23 His compassions fail not, they are new every morning great is thy faithfulness!
TAGS: Iraq, Gulf War, casualties, Israel, Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Yitzak Shamir, Scud missiles, 1991, miracles, Purim, Bible, God, Lord URL: www.benmelech.org DATE: first edition 1999, revision 2011
2011
www.benmelech.org www.punticardinali.com