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| quote: | Originally posted by Yohan
they do. whenever a rocket hits a neighbourhood. or when suicide bomber blows up in a cafe. etc. (obviously not to degree that the palestinians are suffering now) |
"suffering now?"
point me to a time when the conflict was active on both sides and the civilian death toll, on the Israeli side, was higher--I'll save you the time: you can't.
also DigiNut:
| quote: | About 350 people had sought refuge at the school in an effort to escape the fighting between Israeli soldiers and militants on the outskirts of the Jabaliya refugee camp, to the east of Gaza City.
Television footage showed bodies scattered on the ground amid pools of blood.
The UN officials said they regularly provided the Israeli military with exact co-ordinates of their facilities, and that the school was in a built-up area.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "deeply dismayed" that despite these efforts, three UN-run schools had been hit by nearby Israeli strikes.
The Israeli military said that, according to initial checks, its soldiers had come under mortar fire from militants inside the al-Fakhura school.
"The force responded with mortars at the source of fire," it said in a statement. "Hamas cynically uses civilians as human shields."
It later reported that two well-known members of a Hamas rocket-launching cell had been among those killed at the school, naming them as Imad and Hassan Abu Askar.
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the incident was a "very extreme example of how Hamas operates".
"If you take over - I presume with guns - a UN facility. If you hold the people there as hostages, you shoot out of that facility at Israeli soldiers in the neighbourhood, then you receive incoming fire - I think that's a war crime under international law," he told the BBC.
A Hamas spokesman, Fauzi Barhoun, said allegations that fighters had used the school to attack Israeli forces were "baseless".
"There was no fire of any kind from the school," he told the BBC.
Earlier in the day, at least three Palestinians were killed when another school was hit in the Shati camp, UN officials said.
The BBC's Rushdi Abu Alouf reports from a UN school inside a Gaza refugee camp
Ten people were also injured at a UN health centre in the Bureij refugee camp.
Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for the Palestinian territories, described the incidents as tragic and demanded an independent investigation.
The director of operations for Unrwa, John Ging, told the BBC that conditions in Gaza were "horrific" and that nowhere was safe for civilians there.
Mr Ging said international leaders had a responsibility to act to protect civilians, some 14,000 of whom are sheltering in UN buildings. |
I particularly like this
| quote: | | Many claims cannot be verified. Israel is refusing to let international journalists into Gaza, despite a Supreme Court ruling to allow a limited number of reporters to enter the territory. |
source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7814054.stm
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Even if you write 12 paragraphs in return to me for this.... you still wont be able to justify shit to me.
