Another Hamas atrocity
My only disagreement with this editorial is that the return fire from Israel was from a mortar artillery unit that was using counter battery radar to direct fire and not from a tank which is a direct fire weapon. The Posts seems to be one of the few media outlets that gets the point I have been making about Hamas's use of civilian casualties.Add one more atrocity to the blood- soaked history of Hamas: Yesterday, the cowardly brotherhood managed to kill dozens of Palestinian civilians at a UN school in Gaza.
And it used Israeli armor to get the job done.
Israeli tanks, it's true, fired on the school, which the UN says it operated as a refuge for civilians - but only after coming under fire from the school.
Indeed, Israeli soldiers reportedly found dead Hamas fighters and their weapons in the building's rubble, along with the bodies of scores of civilians, as the ground assault against Hamas positions outside Gaza City continued.
No surprise there.
Heavy civilian casualties would be entirely in keeping with Hamas' longstanding practice of using women, children and the elderly as human shields.
Which means that responsibility for the deaths lies squarely at their feet.
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There is a purpose to such barbarism.
Recall that similar civilian casualties - precipitated by similar enemy cowardice - helped bring international pressure against Israel to prematurely end its war against Hezbollah in 2006.
Hamas, and its paymasters in Tehran, are hoping for a similar outcome this time around. That musn't be allowed.
Indeed, Hamas' willingness to terrorize its own people, let alone Israeli civilians, is all the more reason for Israel to effect the organization's speedy destruction - and for the world to support such an outcome.
And, lest anyone forget Hamas' ultimate intentions, a spokesman yesterday called on Islamists to target Jewish children around the world.
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