Maybe they are, but in such circumstances I always ask myself ‘why would they?’
What possible advantage could Israel gain by deliberately targeting innocents?
Who knows, but those boys were targeted; the site was, apparently, utterly devoid of anything that might be considered a target so maybe the Israeli’s were using them as an exercise?
The same is true for Israel deliberately targeting a hospital but here we are discussing it because it definitely happened; or did it? If you were a reporter could you tell the difference between an Israeli shell landing on the hospital roof and a Hamas shell (or a rocket)? Could you tell the difference between an Israeli shell and ten kilograms of high-explosive? Because the hospital is in the Gaza Strip any shell that lands on it HAS to be an Israeli shell, doesn’t it.
Regev queried because another report by the same reporter had indicated that, at a different hospital, he had heard nearby outgoing shells – the query was whether this was the same hospital or the same event. The hospital that was being shelled was at 3am and the reporter could apparently see the shells coming in from the sea.
There is little point in making stuff up in a war zone – there is way too much going on which is genuine for you to spare the time to create fiction, and unless you are really good at it you are going to get called out on something you cannot defend. On this occasion Regev was flustered, he was stuttering and repeating previous answers; he looked thoroughly lost and I could see that he was having difficulty countering what he was being asked.
Robert Fisk anyone, for starters?
I believe that Fisk has suffered at the hands of both sides over the years, but only one side decided to make that intervention personal.
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