3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes
Source: AP
Mar 11, 10:14 AM EDT
3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes
By IBRAHIM BARZAK
Associated Press
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3 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Israeli airstrikes killed a schoolboy and two other Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, while Gaza rocket squads fired salvos into southern Israel, deepening the worst round of violence between the sides in more than a year.
A Gaza health official said a 12-year-old boy, a 60-year-old farm guard and a militant were killed as the exchanges of fire entered their third day. Egyptian efforts to achieve a cease-fire faltered, spurned by the two factions in Gaza responsible for the rocket fire. The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted rocket launchers.
The violence has shattered a monthslong lull. It was touched off Friday by an Israeli air strike that killed the commander of the Popular Resistance Committees militant group, an ally of Gaza's Hamas rulers. Since then, Israeli airstrikes have killed 16 Gaza militants and two civilians, and Palestinian militants there have fired more than 120 rockets at Israel, seriously wounding two civilians.
Gaza health official Adham Abu Salmia said the militant killed Sunday was at a rocket launching site in Gaza City. The boy was hit while walking with a friend to school in the northern town of Jebaliya and the guard died in Gaza City while walking with his dog, who was also killed, he said.
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A boy . . . walking with a friend to school . . . a man walking his dog . . .
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Over 130 rockets and mortar shells fall on Israel in 3 day period; additional rocket slams into residential neighborhood in Beersheba, damaging 15 homes; over 200,000 children stay home from school.
http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=261373
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)But frankly Human lives are worth more then property. A boy being killed is far more upsetting then kids having a day off.
As a mother, I would much rather have my child alive and home from school for a day then dead and never attending school again.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)the kids are out of school because people are firing rockets at them right?
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Both are wrong.
One is more devastating then the other.
To try and make them somehow equal is very wrong.
Morters do not equal bombs dropped via airplane.
Rocks are not equal to bullets.
Both are wrong, one is far more deadly.
backwoodsbob
(6,001 posts)they are launching rockets
oberliner
(58,724 posts)What would be the best approach to deal with the mortars and rockets?
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)They are in Retailation
tabatha
(18,795 posts)Here are all of the rocket attacks in 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel,_2012
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Israelis and Palestinians Killed in the Current Violence
At least 6,537 Palestinians and 1,092 Israelis
have been killed since September 29, 2000.
An eye for an eye makes the world blind.
WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)Unwilling to change tactics, to stubborn to realize that change must occur for a better life for both sides.
So sad.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)"The bloodshed started with an Israeli airstrike on what the army said were two militants planning an attack from the Egyptian-controlled Sinai, including Zuhir al-Qaisi, head of the Popular Resistance Committees."
Your list of Palestinian rocket attacks is mighty impressive...except they almost always result in no damage and no injuries.
Wow, you finally found an oppressive government shooting rockets at a restive civilian population that you can cheer for. I think I see the light now.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)On almost all the listed attacks had those words included.
I didn't see any major injuries or deaths.
Surely you must think there is another answer besides fighting until one wipes out the other.
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Also since you want to play the numbers game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict#Fatalities_1948.E2.80.93present
Partial casualty figures for the IsraeliPalestinian conflict from the OCHAoPt[192]
(numbers in parentheses represent casualties under age 18)
Deaths Injuries
Year Palestinians Israelis Palestinians Israelis
2008-26.12.08[193] 464 (87) 31 (4)
2007 396 (43) 13 (0) 1843 (265) 322 (3)
2006 678 (127) 25 (2) 3194 (470) 377 (7)
2005 216 (52) 48 (6) 1260 (129) 484 (4)
Total 1754 (309) 117 (12) 6297 (864) 1183 (14)
All numbers refer to casualties of direct conflict between Israelis and Palestinians including in IDF military operations, artillery shelling, search and arrest campaigns, Barrier demonstrations, targeted killings, settler violence etc. The figures do not include events indirectly related to the conflict such as casualties from unexploded ordnance, etc., or events when the circumstances remain unclear or are in dispute. The figures include all reported casualties of all ages and both genders.[192]
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)None of them having to do with weapons. But I have a feeling this conversation won't go anywhere and I am reminded of why the I/P forum created.
My solutions would have to do with fairness, equality, standard of living, education, etc.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)abide by international law and leave the occupied territories, abandon an apartheid government, and get on with life.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)nanabugg
(2,198 posts)has carried out over the past several months? Hamas said they would retaliate since innocent civilians were killed in those assassinations.
FarPoint
(12,597 posts)Here we go again.
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Lars77
(3,032 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Haven't they always been at war?
patrice
(47,992 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The cycle of violence continues. Children and innocents on both sides are killed and maimed regularly. More children grow up in violence and become immune to its horror, regarding it as a way of life. And the cycle of violence continues.
patrice
(47,992 posts)those who don't.
Where is a useful virtual reality when you really NEED one? People could make their choices (one side/consequences, or the other, or neither) and engage those who make the reciprocating choice; they could engage virtually, and, then, if they really insist, real world/time, winners execute losers. Sounds horrible doesn't it, but at least that little boy would get to school to create the kind of life he has to offer to his world and that guy and his dog make it home for lunch with his neighbors.