<$BlogRSDUrl$>

20.10.03

UPDATE: More on Israeli tactics in Gaza strikes

Ha'aretz is reporting at least 14 killed in 5 separate Israeli strikes (latest update); Al Jazeera is simply stating "many dead" and scores (around 100) wounded.

Here are some details about the extreme concern for human life in the "precise" and "targetted" killings that Israel is carrying out (all emphases added):

From the Ha'aretz article:
...IAF helicopters fired at least two missiles at a car near the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, killing seven Palestinians, including top Hamas militant Imad Akel and three others who were in the vehicle with him, according to Palestinian sources. Three others killed in the attack were civilians.
The same attack, with additional details, by Al Jazeera:
The vehicle took a direct hit from what witnesses said was a missile fired by an Apache helicopter, killing its two occupants.

A further missile was fired into a crowd of people gathered round the destroyed vehicle, causing at least 70 more casualties including at least six fatalities, according to Aljazeera quoting Palestinian medical sources.

Residents said one of the dead was a doctor who was treating victims when the second missile struck. The identity of the other victims was not immediately known, and the military did not comment.
...

Israel's Channel 10 TV said that none of the dead were "militants", characterising the refugee camp strike as a "mistake."
This is not the first report of the Israeli army firing into crowds after an initial attack. But, of course, who else, besides "terrorists", would possibly be out in public and walking around?

More from Ha'aretz:
At least 23 other people were wounded in the first two strikes, Palestinian hospital sources said, including four children and a 70-year-old woman.
...

In the first assault, in the Sajaiyeh neighborhood in the eastern part of the Gaza Strip, combat planes struck a Hamas weapons factory, the military said. Seven people were wounded in the strike, including two infants aged 2 and 3.
...

The pickup had stopped at a traffic light near a gas station, on a busy street crowded with school children, when the missiles hit the front of the vehicle. A kindergarten and an elementary school had just let out students for the day.

Bus driver Ahmed Sobeh said he was driving behind the pickup at the time. "Suddenly, a big flame came from the sky and hit the car in front of me," he said.

"School children were trying to cross the road [at the time]... .
"Unfortunate" collateral damage... "liquidation" of "terrorists"... or disregard for human life?

The "moral superiority" is killing someone who isn't me.


This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?