Thread: gaza redux
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Old 01-07-2009, 02:23 PM   #110 (permalink)
Slims
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Do you guys REALLY believe Israel targeted a school just to kill civilians? Or do you think maybe they ate a few rounds and when they returned fire they hit a nearby school?

If Israel were simply trying to gun down civilians the death toll would be a couple orders of magnitude higher by now.

With regard to the school fiasco, it sounds like they were using a radar counter-battery and lobbed a few rounds at the calculated point of origin of some incoming mortars/rockets. That sort of thing isn't pinpoint accurate, and if someone was lobbing mortars from 'near' a school, they likely returned fire without the artillery crew realizing how close to a school it was.
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