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It was the only way to get to the Sheik who himself had targeted Jewish children.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, disagrees with you:

Mr Sharon said he and the Defence Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, would never have approved the air strike against a block of flats in Gaza City had they known innocent people were at risk.

"Israel did not know that there were civilians in Shehadeh's house," he reportedly told a closed-door meeting of his senior aides. "Had it known this, it would have found another way to hit him."

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Regardless of Sharon's latest response, the Israeli attack was a justifiable act of war. The loss of innocent lives, especially children, is always a tragedy. But it was essential to kill or capture this man.

During WWII American bombs killed thousands of innocents. A sad but necessary cost of freedom and security.