Posted on 07/12/2014 9:47:41 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
As Israel’s air war against Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters in Gaza entered its sixth day on Saturday, a pair of bombings threw the difficulties of the campaign into painful relief: Israel bombed a mosque, which its aerial photos indicated was harboring a weapons cache, and a center for the handicapped, killing two handicapped patients and wounding three, as well as a caretaker.
The bombing of the center, the Mabaret Palestine Society here in northern Gaza, occurred just before dawn, when a missile crashed through the roof and exploded. Because it was the weekend, only five of the 19 severely handicapped residents were in residence, while the rest were with their families, said Jamila Elaiwa, who founded the center 20 years ago.
She spoke at Al Shifa hospital’s burn unit, while she was visiting the wounded, including Mai Hamada, 30, and Salwa Abu al-Qomssan, 53, the caretaker, both of them with severe burns, while two more patients were in intensive care.
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You poke a sleeping lion with a stick, don’t get mad when the lion eats you and your dog too.
What they really hit was an arms cache and a barracks.
I’m sure there will be an amazing number of “clinics” destroyed by the satanic joooz.
What? No weddings or orphanages full of blind children? Erlanger’s muzzie propaganda machine needs a little grease!
Sniff, sniff......frequently, one gets what one earns.
Why does any rational person expect Israel to fight with one hand behind its back?
Who really cares? The palis need bombed into oblivion. None are “innocent”.
“What they really hit was an arms cache and a barracks.”
In other words, a mosque.
LOL! The NY Times is such a bunch of putzes.
Gosh, I hope they didn’t destroy any baby milk factories.
Israel should take back the Gaza—even if by sections at a time. The little feel good experiment of giving up land for peace was a miserable failure. Now start taking back land for peace Israel—enough with the incessant rocket attacks from Gaza. Take back the Gaza-—scrooge the world.
It would be a good time blow up that eyesore currently sitting on the temple mount and blame hamas rockets for it.
Erlanger! Remove your head from you rectum!
What they really hit was an arms cache and a barracks.
Yup, and they missed the baby milk factory .
What a shame
Why are mosques off limits? Churches and synagogs are not
Send them all back to Egypt ... or directly to Alluh to collect on their 72 virgin rewards ASAP!
enough of these murderious squatters killing Jews and Christians (or Hindus or Filipinos or anybody else they can get their hands or bombs on) at every chance they get
enough already! send them all packin to Alluh!
Mosquito, a biting insect which spreads filth and disease, killing millions of Muslims and Christians a year.
Mosque, hum?
The headline implies that the risks are to Israel, because it will make them look bad. PR be damned — this is war!
The most interesting part of the article was the bit about the Israelis “knocking on the roof”. I had never heard about this before. It sounds like the Israelis send a small unarmed projectile to let residents know that the real thing is coming and give them a chance to depart the premises. That’s about as humane as a bombing campaign can be.
Now I understand why Hamas issued orders that people are to stand in place even if they know a bomb is coming.
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