About that Israeli strike on the UN “school” Updated
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For context, watch this video from the UNRWA boys’ school in Gaza in 2007:
Terrorists from the Gaza Strip fire mortars from an UNRWA boys’ school in Gaza on 29 Oct. 2007. Hamas and other terror organizations in Gaza make deliberate use of civilians living in populated areas as human shields.
Fast forward to 2009:
An Israeli official says Palestinian militants fired on Israeli soldiers from the courtyard of a U.N. school where dozens of people died in fiery explosions.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he said the army is still drafting the country’s official response to the incident.
Palestinian medics said 34 people were killed in an Israeli strike outside a U.N. school in the northern Gaza town of Jebaliya. The United Nations confirmed 30 were killed and 55 injured.
The Israeli official said “hostile fire” was directed at the soldiers from within the school. He said soldiers returned fire and multiple explosions went off, presumably emanating from munitions stored there.
Related: “Hamas operatives are in the hospital and have disguised themselves as nurses and doctors,” one official said.
Flashback – more human shield ploys: Ambulances for terror.
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Lawhawk has more. So does Israellycool.
Update: The Israeli consulate has issued a statement:
Earlier today, upwards of 35 Palestinian civilians were reportedly killed in two unfortunate accidents in Gaza, one at a school run by UNRWA and the second at an apartment in Gaza City. These deaths are indeed a tragedy, and investigations are underway to ensure that further operations continue to avoid civilian casualties.
These initial investigations indicate that Hamas used the UNRWA school to fire at IDF forces, indicating once again that Hamas is more than willing to sacrifice Gaza citizens to promote terrorism. International law recognizes that the presence of civilians in an area of conflict does not delegitimize a military target. Israel and the IDF will continue to abide by these laws and to make every effort to avoid harming civilians in conducting further operations. We urge the international community to strongly condemn Hamas’s cynical exploitation of its citizens and firing of rockets, which remain the most effective way to ensure peace for Gazans and Israelis alike.
Update: Related video and analysis from Allahpundit here.
And more from Jim Hoft, who writes that IDF says the bodies of two Hamas jihadis were found at the school along with a missile launcher with anti-tank missiles.
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I am sure Israel has been wrong more than once but the “others” flat out tell the whole world they want to destroy Israel and kill the Jews. So Ilovemycountry unless you or some other can get the Jews to unilaterly march into the sea all I can say is there will be war.
Now light a candle, sing silly songs but unless you can get the Arabs to stop you are wasting your breath.
Let’s give loving the Jews a chance. Let’s give loving Moslems Against Sharia Law a chance. Let’s give America Loving Americans a chance.
Praise HaySoos and pass the ammunition. The jihad is on its way here again.
Bear1909 out.
PS: No troll blood in these veins. Just good ol fashion half-breed.
This just in….Al Quaeda #2 The guy with the big ugly bump on his forehead…is blaming duh1 for the Gaza fight!!!!
This is the first time in history something bad has NOT been blamed on Bush!
duh1 might be useful after all….
Al Quaeda #2 is a proctologist. Watch out for that FINGER!
Report: Hamas selling aid supplies to sell to residents
Why, oh why do we send any money at all to these freaks?
That about says it all…sorta the way the anarchists, left wing demonstrators, unamerican swine fight…behind masks, women and children.
edelweiss,the other day I called you an “idiot” on a different issue. I started thinking that was not the appropriate language to use in criticizing such an unbelievable remark you had made…now your post tonite, you’ve out done yourself. I take back my apology from the other nite, realizing now you are one dumb a$$…lost in the world of rose colored glasses…and left wing rhetoric. Be gone you dim wit.
While I’m at it, just what the hell has “old Europe” done to contribute the world’s growth in the last few hundred years…last I can remember was their support in the 1st American Revolution, 230 yrs ago. Where will they be during the coming 2nd American Revolution?
What some folks will never understand is that Israel’s margin for error with regard to their own survival in the midst of people who want to dance all over their dead, rotting corpses is very small. If you and I lived in a tiny country that is smaller than New Jersey, with fewer than 7.3 million people, and we were surrounded by other nations populated with hundreds of millions of people who wanted us dead, then I think you MIGHT have a different perspective on the situation.
Does that matter to anyone? I mean, the fact that Israel screws up sometimes when it comes to their national security, when their position in the world is so tenuous, yet they are in constant danger because so many want them to disappear, it doesn’t make sense to me that people are always on Israel’s case when they FINALLY retaliate when rockets are fired indiscriminately into densely populated areas.
Is Israel wrong at times? I’d say they are, primarily because they have idiot liberal politicians who are too concerned about “making peace,” when peace will never be achieved so long as hundreds of millions of people want to see them dead. To the Muslim extremists such an attitude is merely an expression of weakness. The only way they will ever properly get the respect they need of their enemies is to defeat them, utterly and completely.
Peace can only be achieved through defeating those who desire your extermination. It’s the only way.
On January 6th, 2009 at 9:03 pm, Fat Jolly Penguin said:
Report: Hamas selling aid supplies to sell to residents
Why, oh why do we send any money at all to these freaks?
#198,
You are spot on. I take issue with only one point you made.
There is no such thing as an extremist Muslim. They are only following Mohamed who enjoyed murder, and rape.
Those Muslims not following Mohamed are apostates.
I had to comment, as I am still laughing at the edelweiss character. I have been to Europe several times and I can honestly say that although I am tired of watching out politicians pander to the Mexicans and Mexico here, at least thank god we do not have to worry so much about the Islam cancer that Europe has to endure. The politicians there pander endlessly to the large Muslim population for votes, this has emboldened these people to wreak havoc on Europeans. Since the average European is scared of their own shadow, they have taken to pandering as well. Germany holds on to a small thread, but France has pretty much lost their national identity. Mosques are built there 5 to 1 over churches and the country stares out like deer caught in headlights when Muslims decide to burn down their cities. England is next to bankrupt paying for Muslims who don’t work and basically complain incessantly about how they deserve more (politico’s only too happy to give out for votes). Even Ireland is overrun now. Amsterdam deals with gay bashing Muslims and the media is terrified to report honestly on it.
If the Europeans are overwhelmingly biased, they feel the need that they have to be. No one wants to have their a$$ beat by a group that the police is too frightened to touch. There is no justice for the average European, there is an article in the Guardian that reads that the British feel now that they are discriminated against by the welfare department that favors Muslims over them. I doubt that they get very far with their complaints….
There is so much more insanity in Europe that I could go on for hours. Oh well, much like the Californians who voted in the people who bankrupted the state and continue to vote them in, Europeans are the ones to blame for their retarded morality.
Personally, I do not think that Israel will EVER gain the respect of the world as a people who deserve the right to exist. For whatever reason, they will forever need to be diligent in keeping themselves safe in a world that sees them as a inconvenience.
In fact, I think that it won’t be long before the US is in the same boat, except we have the people in place within our government who will see to it that our sovereignty is dissolved, and we will be no more. Liberalism has divided us to the point that we are more Balkanized that the Balkans, and our breakup is inevitable, unless civic-minded, liberty-loving Americans wake up.
Now that is a good and true mohammedan. Old Mo himself started this whole moon god business raiding Meccan caravans. Then he attacked the Jews of Medina and the Date Groves. All justified under mohammedan law.
All this talk of Radical Islam is just that-talk. It is a violent religion spread by the sword and suicide bomber.
Negotiate WHAT? Old Mo himself tells them they are under no obligation to keep a treaty with an unbeliever and in fact it is a sin to do so. It, mohammedanism, is a kill or be killed way of life and I know what I prefer. I do believe most of our weepy eyed peaceniks would pick up a gun yesterday if they saw a mohammedan radical trying to kill them. If not, no loss.
I hope Odumbo has read this, something tells me if he did he would act contrary anyway.
While I have never been to Europe, I have read Mark Steyn’s “America Alone,” and he essentially states everything you said in your post. Above and beyond that, he states that Europeans and other non-Muslim populations (all except for the US) are dying. All of the European populations are shrinking. Fewer than 1.5 children are born to couples in most of these countries, and at some point nations like France, Spain, Italy, and Germany will essentially cease to exist as they were once known to be.
What does this shrinking rate of birth mean in these socialist countries? It means that they HAVE to allow more immigrants in order to have workers to support their growing elderly populations and their bloated bureaucracies. The problem is, these immigrants from North Africa and the Middle East AREN’T cooperating in assimilating or doing anything to support themselves, thus they are adding to the welfare burden rather than alleviating it.
Europe is dying, Muslims are taking it over right under their noses, and THEY have the temerity to look down their noses on US? At the rate Europe is going, German, Italian, and French are either going to become dead languages, or ones like only a few tribesmen speak, like Navajo or Cherokee.
All of you, except for the Trolls, must go to compassion training ASAP, and sign the decree that Islam is a religion of peace just like POTUS stated.
Sarc/off
My only question after watching the clip from 2007 is this:
Why in hell didn’t the Predator take the clowns out? Did IDF learn nothing from the Clinton administration?
WHEN YOU HAVE THE TARGET IN YOUR SIGHTS, YOU TAKE THE SHOT.
Why don’t you go ask the “others” since you love “your country” so much…
I think I’ll start randomly lobbing grenades into ILMC’s yard and house and see how long it takes him to come out with a firearm and start shooting. Of course to stay in theme I’ll go hide in a church behind women and children and hide all my other grenades in there too and dare him to shoot at me.
Winner… which is why it is ignored by liberal trolls lacking the brain capacity to understand it.
I hope the IDF has good video evidence. They should turn this against the UN: Terrorists are using your school to launch attacks in Gaza.
Clearly, the UN is either on the side of the Palestinian terrorists, or unwilling to do anything to anger these homicidal maniacs.
I want Hamas apologists to look me in the eye and say with a straight face that Hamas is completely innocent of human rights violations against their own people let alone Israel.
What kind of idiot even asks this question?
Have the Israelis made mistakes? Sure. Does that make them morally equivalent to Palestinians who pursue genocide as national policy? Hell no?
Gawd, how stupid can a person be?
Excellent post.
I’m not so sure about that.
Agreed.
In fact, that might just be a net gain…sort of like addition by subtraction.
Anyone with a weapon is a valid target, regardless of location.
That appears to be the rules of engagement. Good. I see Israel agreed to a three hour cease-fire. DUMB IDEA.
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Israel has a right to self-defense, period. Hamas fires missile from schools and apartment buildings. They won’t allow civilians to leave the danger area. Hamas wants Palistinian civilians killed so they can get your sympathy. Israel repeatedly warns cilvilians in the area through phone calls and dropping leaflets. Hamas has no defense, grow up.
For EVERY missile shot into Israel at least ONE missile should be returned to the area as close as possible to the shooter. Tit for tat. Every single missile should be returned. Period. Treat them like adults, if they kill, they will be killed. If they send missiles, they will receive them. That is the only way they will learn. Screw public opinion, force them to see the truth, or let them be damned.
As the brave Geert Wilders put it recently, “To begin with, there is already a Palestinian state, and that is Jordan. This land covers nearly eighty percent of the historic Palestine. Most residents of Jordan are Palestinians, for instance queen Rania.”
Why doesn’t Jordan take the poor Palistinians or control the nutjobs in Gaza?
Hamas is what makes Gaza much worse than it could be. If they would give up the dream of destroying Israel and stopped all missiles and suicide bombers, and all terrorist attacks, Israel would welcome doing business with them, and things would be peaceful.
There is no negotiating with a mad man, or with Jihadis who want to die to go get their 72 virgins.
I hope Israel doesn’t quit too early. If Israel is destroyed, terrorism in the rest of the world will just increase, it will never stop, as long as there are Radical, or rather, Fundamentalist Muslims.
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
let someone hit you
over and over again
and NEVER hit back harder
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
DO NOT defend your country
from terrorist monkeys
just let them bomb you at will
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
BOMB kindergartens
then piss and moan and whine
when their parents bomb you back
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
never mock Hamas
it’s just their religion
you RIGHT-WING INFIDEL
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