Israeli warplanes attacked the Interior Ministry today in the Gaza Strip and killed two senior Hamas military commanders in some of what were ultimately at least 200 distinct attacks against the tiny strip today alone.
Other strikes hit refugee camps in the strip, and several children were among the dead overall. The bulk of the strikes never had any obvious target and seemingly just hit random residential neighborhoods.
Estimates on the ground say that some 250 civilians have been wounded since Israel started the war on Wednesday, though Israeli officials have been mum on the matter, preferring to emphasize the handful of intended targets they actually hit while insisting that they are making some vague efforts to not hit civilians.
Despite predictions of increased retaliation for the Israeli offensive, rockets from the strip actually slowed today, according to some reports coming at the behest of Egyptian officials who were pressuring Hamas not to retaliate.
The relative lack of retaliation doesn’t appear to enter into the equation for Israeli officials right now, with Defense Minister Ehud Barak insisting he “sees no reason” to stop attacking and other suggesting that the attacks on the strip could go on for weeks, regardless of the reaction or lack thereof.
Isreal kills more civilians as Gaza attacks escalate? No sh*t, Sherlock! If you take a barrel, fill it up with water, put a few hundred fish in it and then take a stick of dynamite and drop it inside the barrel, what do you think is going to happen? Well…the same happens in Gaza. You have one of the best armed and most vicious armies in the world pounding a few square miles of besieged land full of civilians that are trapped with no way out and start dropping bombs on them from air, land and sea and what do you expect to happen if not those civilians to drop like flies?
They cant get out? Theres a border with Egypt, ruled by Islamist Bedouins and Muslim Brotherhood Egypt. Get real, kid.
How can somebody blame Palestinians for what is happening right now? We have been witnessing Israel push for total war for at least few months. Illegal demolishing of Palestinians' houses and villages, burning Palestinians' olive trees and building of Jewish "outposts" on stolen land is direct violation of international law. There has not been even beep from US administration, Canadian government or any of those condemning now Palestinian futile attempts to show Jews and their enablers their pains. Netenyahoo is now using them again for his own purposes – in his push to become elected again. It is totally ridiculous.
I think you are a bit confused. It is Arabs and anti Israel activists who destroy JEWISH olive trees.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/…
Palestinians can be blamed for shooting rockets at civilians in southern Israel, land which only the insane ideologues on the other side dispute.
I think the term you are looking for is weapons caches. Hamas tends to put them in residential areas, in "random" places.