Israel shows evidence of rocket fire from Gaza schools

[oberliner]

The Israeli military has provided its most detailed assessment yet of the conduct and impact of the Gaza war, including photographs indicating that militants stored and fired rockets from schools and a breakdown of the toll inflicted on Hamas.

In a briefing at its headquarters in Tel Aviv, the Israel Defense Forces presented a minute picture of the structure and capability of Hamas and other militant groups operating in Gaza, an effort to explain the severity of the threat Israel faced and justify Israel's heavy tank shelling and air strikes during the 50-day conflict -- tactics that drew international criticism.

Among the evidence laid out by a senior military officer were details of the ranges and number of rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, photographs showing how rocket launchers were hidden in graveyards and a school playground, and how tunnels were used to carry out and escape from the site of attacks.

One set of photographs showed a school by day, its central yard empty. By night, rockets looked to be stockpiled in the yard. At another school a canopy, where a hole had been torn for a rocket launching, was further frayed after a projectile was fired from underneath, he said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/03/us-mideast-gaza-toll-idUSKBN0GY1DS20140903

[Abu Mezur]

1. How can

you believe Israle? They give no hard evidence.

[Abu Mezur]

2. I mean

I don't see any evidence given at all.

[oberliner]

3. It could be BS

By the way, where does your screen name come from?

Is it based on your own name or in honor of some other person or what?

Mine is based off the college I went to - Oberlin.

[Scootaloo]

4. EXCLUSIVE: Israeli Military's photo evidence!

...Still more convincing than Netanyahu's Iranian bomb threat, or the Bat-cave Mosques of Shujayya, isn't it?

[oberliner]

5. Did you make that yourself?

If so, pretty impressive.

[Scootaloo]

6. Should see my macaroni art!