Posted on 01/06/2009 10:48:46 AM PST by ScaniaBoy
(IsraelNN.com) Hamas fired mortar shells from a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school in Jabalya before the IDF retaliated with aerial bombing that killed 42 children, according to an initial IDF investigation.
Military spokesmen said that it appeared "a number of mortar shells were fired at IDF forces from within the Jabalya school. In response to the incoming enemy fire, the forces returned mortar fire to the source.
"This is not the first time that Hamas has fired mortars and rockets from schools, in such a way deliberately using civilians as human shields in their acts of terror against Israel. This was already proven several months ago by footage from an unmanned plane depicting rockets and mortars being fired from the yard of an UNRWA school."
Israel faces a new flood of protests over the bombing. The IDF's initial conclusions were released four hours after international media blamed Israel and showed the bodies of children buried under rubble.
The U.N. used the school to shelter children, and before the IDF was able to report its initial report, Hamas used the incident to appeal to the U.N. for a ceasefire.
CNN quoted UNRWA director John Ging, as saying that "everybody here is terrorized by the situation [and] "there is no place that you can be safe if you're a civilian here."
Despite the IDF clarification, foreign media played down the Hamas' use of the school and emphasized the IDF shelling. Reuters reported, "The Israeli military said its forces fired mortar rounds on a school in the Gaza Strip where about 40 Palestinians were reported killed on Tuesday, but said troops were responding to mortar fire from the U.N. premises."
THE SURPRISE OF THE YEAR! /s
PIng!
I think the U.N. should put some Blue Helmets in their schools to keep Hamas out.
Everybody in Gaza is terrorized by Hamas, and there is no place that you can be safe if you're a civilian in Gaza because Hamas will follow the civilians and shoot from behind women, children, or the UN. My question would be why the UN doesn't object to being used as a shield for Hamas mortar attacks, but we all know the answer to that question.
“CNN quoted UNRWA director John Ging, as saying that “everybody here is terrorized by the situation [and] “there is no place that you can be safe if you’re a civilian here.”
Thats what happens when you spend your evenings spooning with filthy death cult savages.
to read later.
That's what you get when you elect a terrorist organization to run your country.
Hamas’s Fault!
Double Triple Quadruple BUMP FOR TRUTH!
But, democracy is supposed to be consequence-free. At least we in the United States are getting away with electing an unqualified (both in the sense of constitutional prerequisites and in the sense of experience) socialist to make ourselves feel good, and so far we haven't had any consequences other than a partial collapse of the economy as those with sense hunker down for a rough four years. It's so unfair when stupid voting decisions have consequences for the voters who made those decisions.
The UN school teachers gave Hamas a hall pass so it’s OK.
Using schools to launch attacks against those you don't like.
Imagine if that happened in America!
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Just wait. We'll ALL gonna pay for the average voter's idiocy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI&feature=channel_page
Note that it was counter battery mortar fire beyond visual range. This was an immediate response since Hamas mortar teams fire and then move. There is no time to try for positive ID and in any case, the mortar fire MUST be suppressed to save Israeli lives!
That's where they learned it from, as foreign exchange students. They've just taken it a step further from 'political attacks' and escalated it to terrorist rocket attacks.
You get it.
Any non gazan with kids in tne UN school is a bonefide idiot.
Maybe, but not near as much as your children, and your children's children are going to pay.
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