[JamesP81]

The damage to Gaza’s power supply was condemned as “unacceptable and barbaric collective punishment of civilians, including women, children and old people” by the office of Mahmoud Abbas

Sometimes it's the only way people can be made to understand.

[RexBeach]

Wow. Kidnap one guy and they do this? Will Hamas think twice the next time about doing something like this? It had better.

Mazel tov, IAF!

[Cinnamon]

“The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,”
if so knowledgeable, then you must know the Geneva Conventions also condemns terrorism... beheadings, quartering, blowing up of innocent civilians, kidnapping, assassinations.. religious genocide.. etc..

[StJacques]

If Hamas controls the Palestinian Authority -- if "controls" is a word that ever can be applied here -- then as the representatives of the Palestinian people they must learn that their actions speak for all Palestinians. So by that logic, all Palestinians are responsible for Hamas's actions in return. Collective authority translates into collective guilt and thus into collective punishment.

[CholeraJoe]

Sweet! Let them die of thirst in the dark.

[Nathan Zachary]

"“The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,” he added. "

like transit buses, pizza parlors, and civilian houses, schools or where-ever Jews gather? The dismembering of jewish solders, shooting babies in strollers, executing an entire family, children and their mother by shooting them point blank in their car?

Please, lets not have you idiotic Pali-supporters point to "geneva conventions" when these barbaric Islamic animals have no desire to play by them.

[mutley]

I have no sympathy for the filthy murdering animals. You reap what you sow, and my hope is that they will reap a large harvest of misery.

[goldstategop]

The Palestinians should not expect life to go on as usual when the people of Sderot have to live in bomb shelters. When they give up shooting Qassams at Israel and stop sending out terrorist squads to abduct and murder Jews, their circumstances will change for the better. Their fate and their future - is squarely in their own hands.

(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")

[AmericanChef]

"The Palestinian People" elected terrorists to run the place, and now they want to say the terrorists don't represent them? Uh...nope, sorry, not buying it. Ka-BOOM!

[BerniesFriend]

You know..Israel should knock it off..they might get people mad at them don't you know..

[USNBandit]

the scorched wreckage of the six transformers at Gaza’s only power station

The Israelis are only trying to cut power for a short amount of time and have showed great restraint in this strike. A transformer yard can be fixed quite quickly. The "months" figure stated by the Palestinian is a lie, unless his crews are really lazy.

If you really want to stop a power plant you put a penetrator into the station itself. If you bust up the concrete floor the generators sit on the whole plant has to be rebuilt.

[USNBandit]

collective punishment

Expect to hear this term for the next couple weeks. It will be parroted by the MSM, the Palestinian Authority, the Democrats, CAIR and all the other PA sympathizers that ignore Israeli victims and PA terrorism.

[RobRoy]

I smell Israeli strategy change.

[Hitlerys uterus]

"It would, Dr Abu Sisi said, take a “minimum of three to six months” to restore supplies at a cost between $5m (£2.8m) and $7m."


Good! That's 5 to 7 million they won't be spending on bullets, rockets and explosives. In the meantime let the pallies enjoy the fruits of their newly elected leadership.

[RightWhale]

It is a war after all. The current gov't of the Palestinians is Hamas and that is who committed the acts of war. The power plant is a valid war target.

[hsalaw]

“The Geneva Convention says it is not allowed to attack infrastructure for the civilian people,” he added.

Well, this is rich. The Terrorist Nation now asks for the protection of the Geneva Convention after decades of blowing up Israel women and children on busses, in markets, and on the streets.

[ishabibble]

The Palestinian people put the Hamas terrorists in power by a vote margin of 86%. A highly ironic number, given the news in this article!

I don't care what happens to them, just as long as NOT ONE AMREICAN DOLLAR is given to those terrorists.

Monkey see Monkey do in Jihadi Land. The terrorist scum murder and butcher two of our guys, and the rest of the evil Muslims play copycat. I just love the headline here...if they keep it up, I hope the Israelis give them an entire new definition of "Dark Age". And that little weasel in Syria should take a lesson too. The Israeli Air Force doesn't fly over your palace for laughs...

[DoctorMichael]

"Grog mad. Retaliation against
anti-Geneva Convention barbarity
is against the Geneva Convention"

[Covenantor]

You might expect that economic infrastructure could be a target in the last stages of a war....

Bright idea

Whoops! my bad, there's no electricity. No clue for you.

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