Gaza Shelling Prompts Hamas to Call for Attacks Against U.S.

[ProudAmerican]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,228086,00.html

 

[Binary_Digit]

Hey look. Palestinian fanatics were firing RPGs into Gaza, so Israel reacted and killed some innocent people in the process, and now the Palestinian leadership exploits that to gain sympathy. Tell me history doesn't repeat itself.

 

[The face of Jacob]

Government spokeswoman Miri Eisen said the IDF offensive in Gaza will continue despite the deadly incident "as long as Kassam rockets land in Israel, as long as the smuggling of weapons into the Gaza Strip continues, as long as the Hamas government chooses for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to continuously provoke Israel."

In a delayed reaction, the IDF admitted firing artillery at rocket launching sites in northern Gaza, but insisted it targeted an area "far removed" from the deadly impact.

"We fired at an area from where Kassam rockets are being launched at towns and villages in Israel. Only yesterday, eight (Gaza-made) Kassams were fired from there," Major Avital Leibovich said.

She said the military was expressing regret "in general" for any civilians hurt in Israeli operation, but would have to "check exactly" what had happened in this case. "We have no intention whatsoever of hurting uninvolved civilians," she said.

The army stressed, however, that the responsibility for any civilian casualties lies with the terrorist organizations, which use the civilian population as human shields and continue to carry out terror attacks and to launch Kassam rockets from the shelter of populated areas.

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni also emphasized that Israel had no intention of harming innocent people, only defending its citizens.

Speaking to reporters at the start of an export conference in Tel Aviv, Livni said Israel had left Gaza to allow Palestinians to take control of terror groups and develop an independent life for themselves, but to everyone's great misfortune, this did not happen.

She emphasized that Israel has been subjected to non-stop terror attacks, including the firing of missiles at densely populated areas.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378352095&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

This guy is saying that we can't be sure that Israel did it:

Overall, 12 shells were fired – the sites hit by only two of them are not precisely known. Days will pass before the picture clears, and in the meantime we cannot discount the possibility that the disaster is a result of a "work accident" by Palestinian terrorists...Experience shows that even if it ultimately turns out that the civilians killed in Beit Hanoun Wednesday were hurt by a "work accident" in a Hamas weapons warehouse in town, the Palestinians and international community will continue to blame Israel.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3325549,00.html

 

[ProudAmerican]

Hey look. Palestinian fanatics were firing RPGs into Gaza, so Israel reacted and killed some innocent people in the process, and now the Palestinian leadership exploits that to gain sympathy. Tell me history doesn't repeat itself.

only this time, the terrorists declared war on Americans. enough justification for us to wipe them out IMO.

 

[cherokee]

only this time, the terrorists declared war on Americans. enough justification for us to wipe them out IMO.

Works for me....but I would say Isreal could do it in no time. Let them have some fun.....