Babies among dead on Gaza front line

[hedgetrimmer]

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By Anne Penketh in Gaza and Daniel Howden
Published: 27 July 2006

Only the bloodstains on their white shrouds spoke of the tragedy that had unfolded. Two Palestinian girls, one just eight months old, were dead. They were killed when an Israeli tank shell struck a house near Jabalya in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Yesterday marked the end of Cpl Gilad Shalit's first month in captivity and Israel stepped up operations inside the Strip in an operation codenamed Sampson's Pillar.

The ferocity of the response to that kidnapping, and the determination of operations to stop Palestinian militants' rockets, saw a barrage of air strikes and raids yesterday that killed at least 19 Palestinians, including three children and a handicapped man.

Israeli shells struck at a rate of one a minute throughout the afternoon, with the buildings of Beit Hanoun shaking under the sustained fire. The army has killed 140 Palestinians since it began its assault. About half are civilians.

more... http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article1199342.ece

[GoddessOfGuinness]

1. What a great way to get terrorists to release a hostage!

Assholes.

[Redstone]

2. Israeli babies are also dead because of the rockets. Should we mourn them

less because they're not among the "oppressed?"

Redstone

[Don Claybrook]

3. what a ridiculous question

Individually, no, of course not. It's murder and thuggery either way. Taken in the aggregate, Israel is much, much better at baby killing than Palenstinians are. Why do you defend these brutal fuckhead, to-the-right-of-Bush killer thugs but not the brutal, killer thugs on the other side with the inferior weaponry?

[Redstone]

8. I defend nobody. That's what the OP did. I mourn all on either side.

Just looking for some balance here, that's all.

Redstone

[w4rma]

11. "Balance" according to the ratio of deaths on each side? (nt)

[hedgetrimmer]

4. In a game of life and death with flared tempers and emotions gone

rampant every death is mourned... However, this is not a mourning it is news.... you may mourn for whomever you wish.

[Redstone]

6. I mourn for all.

Redstone

[riverwalker]

7. 4 words

Google: Palestinian children deaths.

[Redstone]

9. Not my point. My point is that ALL lives are worth something.

Redstone

[unkachuck]

5. it's those....

....eight month old baby terrorists you really have to watch out for....they hide in strollers and are always seen with bottles that some claim contain high explosives....

....good job, Israel....

[seriousstan]

10. Thrown out of incubators I'm sure.

[Binka]

12. Do You Get Paid For Being This Obtuse? n/t

[Igel]

13. About having half the dead be civilians in that kind of situation

sounds about par for the course.

Probably quite a good ratio, in fact. Easy to overlook that about half the dead are militants, and that the other half were probably killed while killing the militants.