Israel Matzav

'Palestinians' fire mortars from schoolyard

Here's a video of the 'Palestinians' firing mortar rounds from a schoolyard in a bid to draw return fire and turn a few more children into 'martyrs.'



YNet reports that the video comes from an elementary schoolyard in Beit Hanoun in the Northern Gaza Strip and that the IDF captured the three terrorists who were firing the mortars.

The tall structure in the video is the school and the red circle tracks the terrorists as they prepare to fire the mortars. Military officials said Israeli forces withheld fire, fearing civilians would be harmed.

A senior IDF officer told Ynet on Wednesday that Palestinian terror organizations continue to abuse the civilian population in Gaza by launching attacks against Israel from their midst.

"They don't think twice about firing Qassam rockets near crowded public areas, even though they're fully aware that they're endangering innocent civilians," said the officer.

"We're constantly faced with very difficult and complex dilemmas, how best to defend Israel's citizens and strike at these terror cells while at the same time avoid civilian casualties on the Palestinian side. The terror organizations are well aware of our sensitivity to these issues and they take full advantage of the situation, this is as cynical as their use of the civilian population gets," he said.

What bothers me about this kind of video is that we are risking the lives of our soldiers to spare the lives of 'Palestinian civilians' (an oxymoron if I ever heard one) who give aid and comfort to the terrorists. Even the Geneva Convention does not require Israel to behave in this manner.

But give them a state reichlet and they'll start to care about the lives and futures of their own 'people.'

/sarcasm

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:11 AM