The loss of innocent lives is a tragedy that is mourned by all civil people and will result (as usual) with a stop to the assault on Hamas, an assault that must finish before this scenario happens again in a year or two. But lets look over what's been reported and investigated about the indecent before malice is assigned to Israel.
Initial IDF investigation Hamas terrorists fired mortar bombs from the area of the school towards Israeli forces, who returned fire towards the source of the shooting. The Israeli return fire landed outside the school, yet a series of explosions followed, indicating the probable presence of munitions and explosives in the building. Intelligence indicates that among those killed were Immad Abu Iskar and Hassan Abu Iskar, two known Hamas mortar crewmen. UN School: Media Absolves Hamas The media ignores Hamas complicity in Palestinian civilian deaths. http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/UN_School_Media_Absolves_Hamas.asp According to the Associated Press, two Palestinian residents said "they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal." http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-wogaza075989330jan07,0,722143.story Coming Soon? Hamas' Media Massacre When will Hamas and the media create a new libel? "Whether by Israeli accident or Hamas engineering, expect a spectacular civilian massacre in the coming days, followed by an orgy of Pallywood photography, amplified by a compliant Western media, and even greater fury in the streets of the Muslim and Western world. It's in the Hamas playbook and will be until the media gets sober. Here's the background, and the obscenity that will probably be played...." http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/new/Coming_Soon_Hamas_Media_Massacre.asp Ban Ki-moon condemns rocket attack from Gaza school run by UN agency http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24593&Cr=palestin&Cr1= Mortar Bombs Shot from UN School in Gaza 29 Oct. 2007 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI&feature=channel_page IDF unveils Hamas map seized in Gaza "This is a civilian area, and you can see on the map how Hamas booby-trapped the entrance to homes to hit the IDF," Halamish said. In another case, a large bomb was marked next to a gas station. Had it been detonated it would have likely destroyed the gas station, killing and wounding civilians who live in the area. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231424893023&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Hamas admits it uses human shields http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTu-AUE9ycs The Hamas War Crime Strategy The strategy is as simple as it is cynical: provoke Israel by playing Russian roulette with its children, firing rockets at kindergartens, playgrounds and hospitals; hide behind its own civilians when firing at Israeli civilians; refuse to build bunkers for its own civilians; have the TV cameras ready to transmit every image of dead Palestinians, especially children; exaggerate the number of civilians killed by including as "children" Hamas fighters who are 16 or 17 years old and as "women," female terrorists. Hamas itself has a name for this. They call it "the CNN strategy" http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/01/the-hamas-war-crime-strategy.php Grad hits Ashkelon school Earlier Thursday, a Grad rocket hit a school in Ashkelon. The rocket exploded at the school's gym, which stood empty at the time of the attack. The building sustained damages but no one was injured. http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3652872,00.html On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > I knew that was coming. However, Israel apparently has admitted to bombing > a > school. Not, as I say, that Hamas has not done as much and more...but that > particular incident seems clear, though perhaps accidental. How to resolve > this if Hamas has vowed the destruction of Israel I don't claim to know. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:284525 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
