Posted on 07/30/2014 6:03:38 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
“What we’ve seen in our shelters is indicative of what we’ve seen more generally,” Mr. Turner said. “When they started naval bombardment, artillery and tank fire, that’s just not as accurate as airstrikes. They can’t see what they’re shooting at, so we’ve seen more destruction, more damage, more death.”
Mr. Turner of the United Nations said his agency had provided the GPS coordinates of the school to the Israel Defense Forces 17 times, starting July 16 and most recently Tuesday at 8:48 p.m., to ensure it would be spared. Ziad Yousef, who also works for the agency, said the doors were locked at 11 p.m. Tuesday so no one could come or go.
“People who saw that happen are now convinced there are no safe places left,” Mr. Yousef said.
At least four strikes hit in close succession in a straight line across the school compound, indicating artillery fire, according to people who saw the attack; one struck a house behind the school. The drop ceiling of one classroom had collapsed, and the tin roof was peppered with shrapnel holes. The ground was covered with rubble, clothing and pools of blood. Sunlight shone through a hole in the roof of another classroom, also hit by a shell.
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Bounce the rubble, and bounce it again!
No decent parent would send their kids to school during a war that was just outside the front door. If children were in this school then it was through force by Hamas that put them there, or it was just the normal course of satanic Islam.
“They can’t see what they’re shooting at, so we’ve seen more destruction, more damage, more death.”
I seriously doubt the IDF is randomly firing in Gaza, as she suggests. US doctrine is to have an observer, and I’m sure the IDF’s is the same. Gaza is a very ‘static’ target - the IDF probably have permanent observation points all around it.
And, modern artillery is very accurate - in fact, if they would just keep the rocket launchers 500 meters away from a school (1/3 mile), there would be almost no chance a school would get hit.
A B-17 crew was informed today that they had blown up a school in their campaign to rid the world of nazis.
“No more flying for us,” the aircraft commander was heard to say. “We’re done.”
And so the japs and germans won the war.
You beat me to the punch...the IDF should release video, still imagery or other information showing the military activity that has eminated from that school.
One fact conveniently ignored by the MSM: when a “protected” site is used for military purposes, it is no longer immune to attack. Hamas’s flagrant disregard for the rules of warfare—and the safety of its civilian population—is on display every day in Gaza, but the media won’t touch that one, for fear they will be expelled, or even killed by terrorist thugs. Instead, it’s much easier to go after the Israelis and their “murder” of innocent civilians.
I’d sure like to see the innocent civilians of Gaza rise up and start killing HAMAStards.
Good.
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