- why do we never hear from Palestinians about Hamas hiding rockets and equipment in schools/mosques?
- why do we never hear about the phone calls or warnings?
- that’s a lot of rockets to fire over during a truce, we never heard about that, are there articles on them?

Thanks!

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Richard

Just FYI, in case you are still debugging the theme.

- During the ‘truce’, which Israel observed, Palestinians have lobbed over 1,700 rockets into Israel – in fact, there have been more rockets and mortars thrown into Israel during the truce then without it – so this isn’t a question of ‘One or two rockets thrown over from Gaza’.

- of the 385 (now, over 400) casualties on the Palestinian side, ‘only’ 60 or so have been civilians. Israel *does* have the technology for near surgical strikes, and they target either Hamas installations, weapons depots, infrastructure, or personnel.

- Hamas deliberately uses civilian installations, like schools and mosques, to house their weapons, equipment, or personnel. This contributes as to why there are civilian casualties, as they use civilians as shields.

- Israel, before targeting any buildings or locations that contain civilians, or have civilians nearby, alert and notify the civilians to clear the target zone. This is done either with flyers, or in some cases by making phone calls to the individuals advising to clear the premises. They are usually given 15 minutes or more to do so, which is plenty.

- For the record, in contrast, Hamas targets civilians targets exclusively, with the intention of maximizing civilians casualties.

There just seems to be a one-sided reporting on this issue, so I just wanted to throw in some factoids to balance this out.

Thus, considering the above, and that we are not dealing with one or two rockets, at which point *DO* you decide that you have had enough shelling of your backyard, and are you allowed to do something about it?

Think about that.

Yes, if my citizens were randomly targeted I would do something. I think that would involve infiltrating the community and killing the rocketeers though, or the builders of the rockets. Not killing civilians randomly. A bucketful of eyes for an eye, in the brightly lit view of the world media, does not lend a sympathetic view to the Israelis.

And let’s be honest, 4 Israeli deaths versus 385 Palestinian deaths, that seems a little one sided. Surely the Israeli army has better targeting technology or missile that do less damage?

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