Israel shows restraint, Palestinians Defiant
Published Sat, Nov 18 2006 8:40 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, United Nations
Israel has gotten a lot of bad press for missile strikes on homes in Gaza. The United Nations passes resolutions decrying the violence. But here's something you may not have heard about. Israel has been giving advance notice of their attacks with the intention of getting innocents out of the way before the strike.
That's right, the Israelis aren't the inhumane monsters the U.N. and the Palestinians would have you believe. They actually care about innocent civilians, unlike the homicide bombers they're fighting.
From BBC News:
The Israelis have called off a planned air attack on a house in Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza after hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield.
Mohammedweil Baroud said he was warned by Israeli forces to leave his home. He instead ran to a mosque and summoned neighbours to help defend the house.
Mr Baroud is a commander in the Popular Resistance Committees militant group.
The Israeli army often orders people out of homes ahead of attacks, saying it aims to avoid casualties.
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The Israeli air force often uses night-time helicopter missile strikes to target the homes of leading militants in Gaza, which the Israelis say have been used to store weapons or plan attacks on Israel.
Very often the air force telephones a warning 10 minutes before the strike to give the occupants time to escape and keep down casualties, our correspondent says.
But on this occasion, the presence of so many people has made it impossible for the Israelis to carry though their planned air strike.
Hundreds of relatives and neighbours gathered at the house, where about 50 people reportedly climbed onto the roof. Others stood in the street chanting anti-Israeli and anti-American slogans.
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An Israeli military spokesman confirmed to Reuters news agency that the raid had been called off because of the Palestinian action.
"The attack plan was cancelled because of the people there," he said. "We differentiate between innocent people and terrorists."
He said Israel would continue its policy of targeted air strikes and accused militants of using the civilians in the camp as human shields.
This isn't the first time Palestinian militants have used civilians as human shields. Israel has proven that they are much more human than the militants, who have attacked indiscriminately and without warning time and again.
Despite this the United Nations continues to condemn Israeli actions. Israel just can't win.
Maybe they should stop warning the enemy and simply take them out instead.
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