Israeli shelling killed four Palestinian boys on a Gaza beach on Wednesday…
Palestinian militants fired more than 130 rockets into Israel on the ninth day of a war in which Israeli attacks have killed 216 Palestinians, including six in two air strikes on Wednesday. Most of the casualties were civilians….
(Reuters, July 16, 2014)
Meanwhile, reports are that Hamas rockets have killed one Israeli and injured two others….
To the point, though, it’s clearly far worse that Hamas is using women and children as human shields in Gaza. This, alas, is what Islamic jihadists do. They have no regard for human life.
By contrast, given that the Iron Dome defense system has been intercepting practically every Hamas rocket, it seems foolhardy, if not inhumane, that Israel is retaliating with hellfire missiles it knows will kill 10 of these innocent women and children for every Hamas terrorist it sends to meet Allah … and those apocryphal virgins.
Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, is known as much for its stealth surveillance as for its brazen assassinations. Therefore, wouldn’t it make far more sense for Israel to dispatch agents to surgically assassinate all of the men responsible for ordering these rocket launches, instead of continuing to bomb homes where so-called ‘Hamas militants’ are supposed to be hiding out?
(“Groundhog-Day Flare Up Between Israelis and Palestinians,” The iPINIONS Journal, July 15, 2014)
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