Gaza — 40 Killed in Israeli Tank Attack on School
Jan 6th, 2009 | By Bock | Category: Politics, World, war40 Palestinians were killed by shrapnel when two Israeli tank shells 
exploded outside a United Nations school where the people were sheltering from the attacks. An earlier air strike at another U.N. school killed three people.
The Israeli military is looking into the reports.
75 prisoners have been killed so far today. A total of 640 prisoners have been killed and 2,800 wounded since Israel started bombing the ghetto.
Meanwhile, for balance, I should tell you that a child in the Israeli town of Gadera has been wounded in an appalling Hamas terrorist attack.
This is the mass-funeral after the slaughter:
Here’s John Ging, director of operations in Gaza for the UN Refugee and Works Agency:
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UPDATE:
This is an official statement from Chris Gunness on behalf of UNRWA.
“I have been authorised to say that in private briefings with diplomats, the Israeli army has admitted that the rockets from Jabalya (two days ago) came from outside the UNRWA school compound, not from inside it. Therefore the allegations against a neutral UN human development organization were entirely baseless. This increases pressure for an independent investigation. “
I hope this nails one of the lies that commenters here have been trying to pass off as fact. The civilians inside the compound were shelled and 40 of them were killed by the Israeli military even though none of them had anything to do with the conflict.
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Also on Bock:
Gaza — Israel Firebombs Civilians
Gaza Today
Gaza — The Ghetto Slaughter Begins
Gazastan, Israeli Ghettos and the New Apartheid
Israel Murders 200 People in Gaza
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Elsewhere:
How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe
Two quick links Bock:
* The IDF official information is quite different: mortar round were fired from there, and the Israeli forces returned fire (also by mortar), and that apparently triggered boobytrapped explosives in the compound. We’ll probably know the truth in a day or two, if we’ll ever try and revisit it.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1231167272256&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
* In case it’s difficult to believe that Hamas is firing from UN schools, here is a video from a drone filming exactly that, a year ago. The video was uploaded long before this incident, and not as a response:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmXXUOs27lI
I agree though about one thing – it’s terrible that civilians have no where safe to hide. We should be doing more in helping those who wish to exit to some safe area. I’ll try and research if and what is done on that.
With love for my people, I report to you the following:
The UN has been silent to the following criminal activities of the Hamas terrorist organization:
1. Hamas has violated the rights of the Palestinian children abusing them, brainwashing them and inciting them to hate and kill.
2. Hamas has deliberately and exclusively fired missiles at Israeli civilian populations hoping to hurt as many civilians as possible. In 2008 alone, Hamas fired 3,278 rockets and mortars from Gaza to Israeli cities.
3. Hamas has been firing these rockets from within densely populated areas using the Palestinian people as human shields. Mosques, hospitals, kindergartens and children are criminally being used as human shields by Hamas operatives.
Enough is enough. UN: your silence to this brings shame to your institution.
Watch and share this video: Children of Hamas – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTGbP55HGi8
Israel are saying that their soldiers were attacked from within the school and are blaming Hamas for the loss of life. What they are not saying is that they knew the purpose of the building and its exact location. Local UN officials had supplied Israel with the co-ordinates months ago. The school was deliberately targeted.
Ofer — Today I watched Gordon Brown stating that there is a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.
In these videos I hear John Ging, a man of impeccable credentials, telling the world about a humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
On the other hand, I watched Tzipi Livni on TV yesterday denying there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Denial seems to come easily to Israeli officials.
The information you provide comes from the Israeli military. I don’t expect them to say that they’ve just shelled a school and killed forty people.
Until you produce independent witnesses, I’ll stick with what the UN has to say.
Mahmoud from Gaza — Your IP address is in the United States. That’s quite an achievement for a man in Gaza.
Pompano Beach, Florida, to be precise.
heh..i was just about to ask you where his IP address was from..
Hamas may be hiding among civilians; all such groups do so in times of asymmetrical conflict.
Jewish terrorist groups such as Haganah, The Stern Gang and Irgun did the same thing during the Palestine Mandate.
For Israel to deliberately target a UN school underlines once again the indiscriminate nature of the attack on the Palestinian people and makes a nonsense of Israeli claims that they are trying to avoid civilian deaths.
They are only Palistinians, now if it was hundreds of US or European women and children shelled and killed in an enclosed Ghetto with nowhere to run then we would be interested. Just because they are Arabs who elected Hamas as their government in free and fair elections we don’t give a fuck.
So no Crime here, however we may send a team to the Israeli towns nearby.
Oh! and BTW the Israel did not brake the Ceasefire in November even if the UN says they did. It is not Israels fault if they did not keep their side of the bargain by ending the seige over the last six monthts.
P.S. can the Arabs hurry up and die because Israel ant’ letting them leave ever
Bock, you make me want to turn away all the time. It’s why I keep coming back. Keep shining a light.
Scum. People who defend this sort of shit have a moral compass in the sewer.
Just for balance: The child that was wounded:> Should this incident be added to the list of atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli civilians ?
Bearing in mind that up to 2004 480 Israeli civilians were murdered by Hamas suicide bombers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hamas_suicide_attacks
Since when has being a Palestinian become a crime?
The IDF are now saying that the extreme loss of life in the UN school happened because Hamas booby-trapped the building. What a load of crap.
Survivors are adamant that the casualties were caused by tank shells that exploded outside and sprayed the hundreds of Palestinians who had sought refuge there with shrapnel.
According to Reuters, these were people who were displaced by the fighting. They had fled from a refugee camp in northern Gaza earlier thinking perhaps that they would be safer in a UN facility. It is clear that there are no bolt-holes in Gaza for non-combatants and that the innocent are punished with the rest.
This may well be intentional policy on the part of the Israelis. They have been getting away with it for years. In 1948 they massacred the residents of Deir Yassin, a village near Jerusalem.
Israelis should know that even something as atrocious as war is subject to rules and regulations and the collective punishment of the Palestinian Population which has been going on since at least 1948 (count the Arab villages blown up by Israel in the Galilee alone, never mind the retributive demolition of Palestinian houses in the West-Bank and elsewhere) is subject to international law.
Collective punitive measures against the population of a country is a crime that is contrary to the Geneva Convention and Israel should be held accountable.
Either this blog is a sham for radical muslims or it is the most ill informed blog yet. If you are going to take the time to blog at least get some facts straight.
Get it right your making responsible bloggers look bad.
Thanks for informing us of all those ‘facts’ there Baylen. Your right of course, we are all Islamic fundementalists for having dared critise Israel’s killing of women and children. Sure you’d have to be.
Well done Bock, its at times like this in the face of almost blanket on-message media, that I rejoice in the dissenting voices of the blogosphere. I just wish that even one official news outlet would call it what it is- ” a bloody massacre.”
Baylen — I rarely say this to commenters, but in your case, I’ll make an exception. Fuck off you idiot.
I’m sure both sides of the discussion would agree with me on that.
Andrew — I don’t keep a list of atrocities, but if you want to start one that’s up to you.
Could I suggest that you begin in 1948, and that in addition to Israeli civilians, you include those from Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Lebanon?
Quote: “In a comment in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal, former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Natan Sharansky denounced the UN for failing to eliminate what he termed the “heart of the problem”—Gaza’s refugee camps of dispossessed Palestinians. Describing the camps as “the terrorists’ unique system of control” and their schools as “indoctrination centres for martyrdom”, he accused the UNRWA of being “facilitators for the terrorists’ goal of grinding an entire civilian population under their thumb”. Sharansky’s ravings served to lay bare the fascistic rationale behind Israel’s deliberate targetting of the camps, the UNRWA and the al-Fakhora school.
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The use of such terrorist measures goes back to the very origins of the Zionist state, when Israeli forces and armed gangs perpetrated atrocities against Palestinian towns and villages as the means of expelling millions of Arabs from Israeli territory. The long history of terrorist acts directed against Palestinians, including the 1982 massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Lebanon, flows inescapably from the reactionary logic of Zionism: the attempt to carve out a Jewish state inevitably involved trampling on the rights of the Palestinian people.
The perspective at the heart of the assault on Gaza’s population was spelled out in a letter written in 2007 by former Sephardi chief rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, calling for the carpet bombing of the entire area. As reported in the Jerusalem Post, Eliyahu wrote that the population as a whole was morally responsible for failing to halt the rocket attacks on Israeli territory. His son, also a prominent rabbi, told the newspaper that the Israeli air force had to kill “whatever it takes to make them stop”—a 100, a 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, even a million.
These comments recall nothing so much as the methods of collective punishment employed by the Nazis during World War II in an effort to end resistance to their rule throughout Europe. They reflect the complete perplexity in Israeli ruling circles and the political dead-end that has been reached in the Zionist project as a whole. Israel’s desperate attempt to use overwhelming military force to suppress Palestinian opposition in Gaza can only lead further into the morass. One can only ask what comes next: the forcible expulsion of all Arabs from Israeli territory?”
Why start at 1948 and include only those few Arab regimes?
Actually Arab states rejected the right of Jewish people to live within their midst – before the existence of the State of Israel:>
Egypt had approximately 80,000 Jews in 1946 – the year after a anti-Jewish riots in Egypt had killed Jews, destroyed a synagogue, a Jewish hospital and an old-age home. Egypt imprisoned approximately 3,000 Jews, expelled over 25,000 and confiscated their property. By 1958 few Jews remained.
Morocco had between 250,000 and 265,000 Jews in 1948 – riots killed 44 of them, by 2005 only a little more than 5,300 remained.
The Jewish population in Algeria in 1948 was around 140,000. The newly independent Algerian government harassed Algeria’s Jewish community and put restrictions on their economic rights, and by 2003 Algeria had fewer than 100 Jews.
Tunisia had between 50,000 and 105,000 Jews in 1948. After acquiring independence in 1956, its government issued decrees against them. Tunisia’s Jewish Community Council was abolished. Ancient synagogues, cemeteries and Jewish communities were destroyed for “urban renewal.” In 2003 only about 1,500 remained.
in Libya lived 38,000 Jews in 1948. There were pogroms against Jews three years before the creation of Israel. More than 140 Jews had been killed in Tripoli and synagogues had been looted. The pogroms came again in 1948. Many Jews fled to the safety of Israel. After the Suez Crisis only about 100 remained. And after Muamar al-Gaddafi came to power in 1969, remaining Jewish property was confiscated and debts to Jews cancelled.
Lebanon had about 5,000 Jews in 1948. Fewer than 100 remained by 2003.
In Syria, rioting against Jews took place in 1947, The Syrian government made it illegal for Syria’s Jews to flee to Israel, but most managed to get out, and by 2003 there were fewer than 100.
In 1947 Jews were also attacked in Yemen. Eighty-two Jews were killed and hundred of Jewish homes destroyed. In 1948 an estimated 45,000 to 55,000 were living in Yemen, and by 2003 less than 200.
Jews living in Iraq in 1948 numbered around 150,000. Jewish communities there dated back to the 500s BCE. In 1914, Jews comprised one-third of Baghdad’s population, and Jews contributed to an advanced judicial and postal system, international diplomacy, commerce and culture. In 1941 a pro-Nazi, Rashid Ali, took power. Armed Iraqi mobs killed 180 Jews and wounded about 1,000. In 1969 Jews accused of spying were hanged in public, with a crowd chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to all traitors.” The centuries-old community of Jews disappeared. By 2003 fewer than 100 Jews remained.
A word about Dr. Mads Gilbert: It turns out he’s no neutral medical man, but active in “solidarity work with Palestinians” for 30 years. Responding to 9/11, Gilbert didn’t rush to New York’s Bellevue Hospital to offer his services. Instead, he defended the moral right of the “oppressed” to have launched that attack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6ojm62qwA
A doctor who supports the murder of civilians!
Andrew — Nobody questions the many atrocities inflicted on the Jews. Likewise I have already acknowledged that Mads Gilbert is not objective.
Are you saying that these things justify what Israel is doing in Gaza?
In any case, it’s your suggested list, not mine. You can start at the beginning of time if you want.
It’s an Arab-Israeli conflict. And the mindset of the Israelis/Jews means that they will use force [and overwhelming force] to deal with threats/attacks. Israel has been living in a sea of hostility since it’s creation and recognition by the UN. Israel is a fact.
Israel has signed peace treaties with two of it’s immediate neighbours [Egypt and Jordan] who both fought destructive wars with Israel, yet were able to come to the table to parley.
Hamas has no intention of ever recognising Israel, and it’s rocket attacks emphasise that. When Israeli armour and troops were massed on the border of Gaza Hamas didn’t turn their rockets onto the Israeli soldiers but continued to target Israeli civilians. Indeed Hamas uses schools, mosques and civilian areas for cover during it’s attacks.
Two residents of the area [of the UN school] who spoke with The Associated Press by telephone said they saw a small group of militants firing mortar rounds from a street near the school, where 350 people had gathered to get away from the shelling. They spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD95I6J3O0
All the civilian deaths caused by Hamas rockets and suicide bombers were deliberate acts of murder.
Quote “while it is necessary to defend Hamas against the ongoing assassination of its leaders and the unending vilification of its supporters as “terrorists” by those inflicting massive state terror against a civilian population, this Islamist movement has no real perspective for confronting and defeating the US-Israeli offensive.
The firing of rockets into southern Israel was aimed at convincing Israel to negotiate a lifting of economic sanctions, just as its talk of renewed “martyr operations,” sending young Palestinians to blow themselves up in Israeli cafes and buses, is similarly designed to pressure the Zionist regime.
No one has benefited more from the domination of nationalism and Islamism in the Arab countries than the Zionist regime itself. There is no nationalist way out of the present morass.
Creating another national mini-state in the region will not provide a solution to the decades-old dispossession of the Palestinians. The division of the West Bank and Gaza by Israeli settlements, security roads, checkpoints and walls make it clear that such a territory could represent only a Bantustan-type prison, with a Palestinian bourgeois nationalist regime serving as its guards.
Israeli officials have made it clear that they see the so-called “peace process” as a means of creating just such a monstrosity, dubbed the “two-state solution,” in order to lay the political foundations for expelling Israel’s own million-strong Arab population, a massive exercise in ethnic cleansing.
This maniacal perspective, like the attack on Gaza itself, is a manifestation of the political bankruptcy and crisis of Zionism. The Israeli state and all of its major parties are subordinate to a military camarilla. The regime staggers from one reckless military adventure to another—from Lebanon to Gaza and, on the horizon, to Iran—inflicting destruction on civilian populations while horrifying and demoralizing large sections of Israel’s own people.”
Andrew — I have no interest in the Israelis’ mindset. I’m asking you if you think the attacks on Gaza are justified.
The Israeli assault on Hamas is justified.
That’s a quote from April 2007 – how many rockets have being launched by Hamas against Israeli civilians since 2007?
We in Europe have a right to be angry about this apart from the obvious moral and humanitarian issue.It is our taxes that have built what the zionists are now destroying and it is our taxes that will rebuild it.So by that extension it is a war on all of us.I say this time let the zionists and their cohorts pay for it.Seize their accounts in European banks to pay for it if need be.They treat us with much the same contempt they show the Palestinians we should pay them back in kind.And as for their propaganda tricks, Mahmoud from Florida is just one small example of that.Best way to tell if a zionist is lying is if he or she opens their mouth.
Andrew.. I am not expert on rockets but I would think given that the ones in question are homemade and quite inaccurate and given the tiny size of Gaza it would be quite impossible to launch them at the invading Zionists without endangering Palestinians as well.And as for all those “residents” who phone up supporting Israels version of events,well thats probably Mahmoud from Florida and his pals.
Andrew — I have given you quite a lot of space here over the last couple of years to promote your particular area of interest and you have taken full advantage of the opportunity to reach the large readership of this site.
Yet when I ask you a simple question, you seem very reticent about answering.
Will you not do me the courtesy of replying to the straight question I’ve asked?
Do you think the attacks on Gaza are justified?
Zionism is not the defender of Jews. It is a right-wing Jewish natiuonalist ideology. Many Jews have of course been duped into believeing it is their Jewishness which is of the most importance to their well-being; and therefore Zionism (Labour included) is the political cause which they must support. However, once you go down the identity politics route you are on the road to nowhere. There is no end in terms of an answer to the problems of peace and prosperity and the search for a bright and fulfilling life in vibrant society. Zionism must keep the pot on the boil. must keep the Arabs continuously terrorised and the Jews/Israelis continuously terrified and confused. Otherwise the issues of class and a better future come to the fore. Your readers must be familiar with the work on the murky history of Zionism in Nazi Europe?. Objectively, the true friend and ally of the ordinary Israeli Jew is his fellow Semite in greater Palestine, and the Arab masses beyond. The Israeli military machine is actually resting on feet of clay. Hence the huge worldwide effort in favour of Zionist propaganda. While various brands of Arab nationalism have often fought very bravely against the Zionist barbarism, they are not able to offer a way forward. Because you are oppressed does not mean you automatically have the answer.
Andrew — I find it remarkable that a man who has been writing to this site for two years or more about the horrors of child-abuse should be blind to the suffering of Palestinian children.
Since you’re quoting numbers, you might like to be reminded of the actual number of Israeli deaths from those rockets in the last eight years. It was 10 or fewer.
To counter the hellfire rhetoric of an extreme Islamist grouping the Israelis have slaughtered how many children in the last twelve days?
Suddenly, Andrew, all your talk of child-abuse is starting to sound very hollow.
Perhaps it depends who’s children they are
It does. If they’re white and Irish it’s a scandal. If they’re Palestinian that’s just war.
Approximately 220 children and 130 women killed in the last week. 1000 children injured.
Of course when it happens close to home feeling are different and people get very angry.
I don’t think the gangsters in Limerick are up to driving the people of Limerick into the sea but Hamas’ stated aim is to drive Israelis into the sea.
Who is going to stop Hamas from doing as they please ?
Hamas have slaughtered innocent men women and children – Israeli and Palestinian. When the Israeli army was massed on Gaza’s border Hamas continued to target Israeli civilians.
And as for me quoting figures the headline on this piece actually starts with a number.
Andrew — I’m saddened, not angry, that you would trawl through this site and dig up quotes about criminals out of context. Are you questioning my integrity Andrew?
The ordinary Palestinian civilans are not criminals and deserve none of what Israel is doing to them.
Your thinking is every bit as unfeeling, hypocritical and authoritarian as the clergy you have been criticising on this site for the last two years. You sound just like a bishop defending his abusing priests.
Regarding the numbers killed and injured, you know exactly what point I’m making. Don’t play games with me or ever take me for a fool.
Truly Andrew, in your case the old maxim holds. The abused becomes the abuser. I suppose I could say the same about Israel.
-Andrew
As regards your comments about Limerick, by your logic every Limerick person should be arrested and put in prison because they are all drug dealing, violent criminals. It would be (again by your logic) the only way of being sure to stop them.
That is what the Israeli government and military is doing, only their prison is fast becoming a death camp.
Andrew your last post has got to be one of the worst posts I have read anywhere.I do not think you would even see its kind on Stormfront.To suggest that a dispossed abused and starved at will people are only criminals who deserve to be slaughtered is fucking outrageous.When you see blood covered little kids being pulled out of buildings every day,how the fuck can you say what you said.
To all Israelis: I agree that many of the actions of Hammas are despicable, illegal and smack of a threatening desperation. I agree that the families of murdered Israeli civilians deserve both full unequivocal apology and compensation (for what its worth). I agree that all non combatant Israeli civilians have the right to live their lives without let or hindrance and fear of death. I also believe that ALL Palestinians should recognise Israel’s right to exist and should respect the deep value of its citizens right to life, and serious steps taken to educate the population against racism towards their neighbours. Now; DO YOU NOT BELIEVE THAT PALESTINIANS DESERVE NO LESS THAN THE SAME? You fail to see the irony of the situation; as a result history repeats itself. This legitimate body of ‘islamist’ terrorists may go on to form the basis of a future palestinian army. The IDF was based on Haganah and other terrorist organisations, if you recall. They were fighting a far larger, better equipped OCCUPYING force were they not? Your historical commonalities outweigh your differences. I believe that just as there are many among the palestinians reluctant to criticise the critical flaws in their leaders and policy, there are just as many in Isreal. Please wake up, and lets start addressing the unequivocal truths instead of twisting it to satisfy our own hidden agendas. The current crisis is another mile towards oblivion, if we don’t get off on the next suitable exit this road will only lead to inevitable destruction, for everyone.
No Bock I’m not questioning your integrity – just putting forward a contrary view and using your quotes!
Ordinary Palestinian civilians are no more criminal than ordinary Israeli civilians. It’s instructive, to me at least, that you would use the term ‘ordinary Palestinian civilians’ as it implies that Israel is deliberately targetting them yet it’s these same Palestinians who’ve been living under the brutal regime of Hamas for three years now and hardly a protest from the world media.
C’est La Craic: I haven’t written any comments about Limerick.
William: Same as reply to C’est La Craic.
Correction, Andrew. You should have said “misusing” my quotes.
-Andrew
I don’t think the gangsters in Limerick are up to driving the people of Limerick into the sea but Hamas’ stated aim is to drive Israelis into the sea.
followed by a qoute by Bock on an unrelated post.
This never happened!
Here’s something from http://glock21.blogspot.com/2009/02/un-retracts-school-bombing-claims.html
UN: IDF did not shell UNRWA school
A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel of shelling one of its Gaza schools in the Jabalya refugee camp during Operation Cast Lead, the international organization admitted this week.
For close to a month, the UN accused the Israel of hitting the educational compound ran by its Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was sheltering more than 1,300 Gazans as the IDF battled Hamas in the camp on January 6.
The strike made international headlines and was one of the many incidents of civilian deaths that led nongovernmental organization and international politicians to call for Israelis to be charged with war crimes for the 22-day military offensive.
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Israeli defense officials noted that in two previous reports, the UN had stated that the IDF attack had been against the school and not outside the school.
In addition, the defense officials said it was not certain that the number of casualties reported by the UN, 43, was accurate and that Military Intelligence had noticed Hamas attempts to cover up the identity of those killed in the strike.
“We know of at least three terrorists among the dead,” one official said. “It is clear that there were more people killed but Hamas has been covering up their identities.”
Why wasn’t this information released sooner? Because the UN told staff to keep their mouths shut while they used the incident to depict a false but politically powerful impression to aid their anti-Israel efforts. From Haaretz:
Questions about the veracity of the claims that the school had been hit by the IDF were also raised last week by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. The newspaper said that a teacher in the UNRWA compound at the time of the strike “was adamant” that no people had been killed inside the compound.
The newspaper quoted the teacher as saying that, “I could see some of the people had been injured… But when I got outside, it was crazy hell. There were bodies everywhere, people dead, injured, flesh everywhere.”
The newspaper said that the teacher had been told by the UN not to speak to the media.
At the time of the attack there was some confusion as another UN school incident had occurred earlier in the same news cycle that had Hamas apologists coming out of the woodwork wailing about a UN school full of refugees being bombed… which also turned out to be inaccurate and based on grossly inaccurate UN descriptions. As it turned out the “bombing” was actually an missile airstrike against a mortar crew in the area, confirmed by witnesses. More on that here.
In the end no UN schools were bombed or even attacked. But at the time anyone watching the media coverage and buying into the UN deceptions would have sworn that cowering refugees in UN schools were being bombed by Israeli forces.
And as usual, all corrections get almost zero attention and often come way beyond the attention span of our news cycles.
-thesystemworks
First of all you have copy/pasted an article from one blog to refute something on another. That is not an arguement.
Secondly, saying this never happened because they shelled just outside the school instead of the actual building itself doesn’t change much. Does that mean those people are still alive? Does that mean I can explode a bomb outside your house as long as I don’t hit the house itself?
Thirdly, what about attacking the UN aid compond? Was that UN spin again? Seeing as your link is taken originaly from the Jeruselem Post, I would count to heavily on using spin as an arguement.
Finally, on a slightly unrelated note, in the same blog article you linked to, the author writes in the same vein about a Gaza man who is responsible for the deaths of his family because he put them in harms way by not leaving when the evermore ironicaly named Isreali DEFENCE force contacted him and told him to leave.
By that logic every Gazan is responsible for their own death for not leaving the land that Abraham signed an eternal lease for with God for. And also by the same logic every Isreali killed by a bomb is responsible for their own death because they didn’t leave the land that used to be Palistine.
I also delight in the irony that your source decided to name his/her blog after a gun.
There are plenty of other sources that back up what was said here- I’m just tired, and have no time to type an original piece. The UN itself has owned up to its mistake. The media wont.