At least 435 Palestinians killed in Gaza in one week

[Hope And Change]

At least 435 Palestinians killed in Gaza in one week

3 January 2009 | 11:00 | FOCUS News Agency

Gaza City.The Israeli military has carried out more than 700 strikes on Gaza since it launched a massive offensive on Hamas a week ago, killing at least 435 Palestinians, the army and medics said on Saturday.

At least 75 children and 21 women have been killed during the offensive on one of the world's most densely populated areas, according to Gaza medics.

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[Hannah Bell]

1. Twenty-five Israelis Killed by Palestinian Rockets Since 2001"

http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.3906189/k.EDAC/Rocket_and_Mortar_Fatalities_in_Israel.htm

Jeez, what else can Israel do to defend themselves against such carnage?

[GoesTo11]

2. And were those 25 really killed by Palestinian rockets?

Convenient, isn't it?

But, as Alan Dershowitz pointed out, the proportionality of the response can be compared to the potential harm of the rockets - if one hit a school full of children, it could be a lot more than 25 and as Dershowitz said, Israel is not obligated to wait and play Russian roulette with its children.

[Hannah Bell]

3. convenient isn't *what*?

i think it's convenient how the non-lethal palestinian rockets provide the justification for endless deaths in palestine.

it's almost as if...


btb, dershowshitz is, was, & always will be, a douche of the highest water.

[GoesTo11]

4. Almost as if what??

You keep implying something. You believe there is some conspiracy, but you won't say what it is. If you would say what it is, then we could respond as to whether it makes sense or is crazy. What are you trying to say? Out with it. Is it something that will get you banned? Is that why you won't say it?

[Hannah Bell]

5. almost as if they aimed to lose.

[shira]

6. so when Hamas' aim gets better

and more Israeli civilians are inevitably killed, only then is Israel justified to deliberately target and kill the combatants behind such attacks? Either way, what other country would just wait until worse happens?

[Hannah Bell]

7. it's been seven years since the first one. no appreciable increase in their

aim so far. In 2008, they killed four people before israel attacked.

At this rate, they should be doing MASSIVE damage with those rockets sometime around, oh - 2100.

Too bad Palestine will be dismembered by then.

[subsuelo]

8. well, Israel is good at killing people

Got to give them that