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Israeli Naval Ship Bombs Palestinian Children on Gaza Beach - Killing four
originally posted by: Corruption Exposed
The four were among a group on the beach when the attack took place, ...
originally posted by: FlyersFan
The four teen boys were among a group ....who else was in the group?
And why did Israel target that group?
And don't say it was just to kill children.
I'm asking straight out ... what about that group was supposedly suspicious?
Anything? Or nothing?
Was it a just family gathering on the beach?
Or was it something else?
What did Israel say about this? Or are they silent?
(silence tells me they either targeted a 'wrong group' or they made a mistake and wont' discuss it)
originally posted by: Corruption Exposed
Israel will probably try and say that these children were a youth faction of Hamas and that they were "Islamic militants" ..
n 2012, Amnesty International described Arouri as "widely held to be one of the founders of the armed wing of Hamas." In court documents, the U.S. Department of Justice has likewise described him as "a high-ranking Hamas military leader dating back to his role as a Hamas student cell leader at Hebron University in the early 1990s," where he was recruited.
Arouri's time at Hebron University is well documented. In 1985, he started studying sharia law there. By the following year, he was elected head of the Islamic Faction at the university. These Islamic Blocs (Kutla Islamiya), which are Hamas's on-campus youth wings, have long been a critical component of Hamas's social and political infrastructure on college campuses, and it was through Arouri's association with them that he met Muin Shabib, a Hamas operative who headed one at Bir Zeit University, right around the time of the founding of Hamas in 1988.
And why did Israel target that group?
what about that group was supposedly suspicious?
Was it a just family gathering on the beach?
What did Israel say about this? Or are they silent?
originally posted by: Corruption Exposed
In your opinion wouldn't a large group of children be a good reason NOT to bomb the beach?
Who cares who else was with them, it was an obvious group of children.
How could you justify bombing them even if they were with Hamas members?
originally posted by: Flatcoat
You seem to be making a point of calling them "teens" ..why is that? According to the article they were approx 10 - 11 years old.
Today was a personal low point - giving first aid with colleagues to two children wounded by shrapnel on Gaza beach on terrace of our hotel
Four kids with them were killed in same incident all from same extended family
1st shell hit the harbour wall. It's been hit before so I assume its on a prerecorded grid. Gunner appears to have adjusted to hit survivors
... who were an adult and three boys
Update: just been to Shifa hospital 3 survivors of attack killed 4 doing ok. One just out of surgery to remove shrapnel from abdomen...
Boy we gave first aid to still has shrapnel in chest and fluid on lungs but conscious and waiting for surgery
Hamad told us they didn't hear 1st round. 1 friend killed by that. He heard second which killed 3 more.
Said they were playing hide and seek. His mum beside herself asking him why dod he go out of the house.
On way to hospital passed the crowd gathering for funeral of the four boys who were killed
originally posted by: HammyCat
According to mondoweiss.net...
You can see pictures and tweets.
First tweet is from Anshel Pfeffer which says
"IDF sources now briefing in additon that 1st stirke was against identified #Hamas building. Children were misidenitified as fleeing fighters"