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Thread #131208   Message #2961199
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
09-Aug-10 - 12:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas rockets fired into Israel.
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas rockets fired into Israel.
"I would posit that if the number of Israeli deaths were zero then those of Palestinians would also be zero."

Consider the case of 1996 shelling of a UN compound in the village of Qana (aka the New Testament Cana) in which 106 civilian taking shelter there were killed and around 116 injured. "A United Nations military investigation later determined it was unlikely that Israeli shelling of the U.N. compound was the result of technical or pr"ocedural errors."

And then again in 2006 "In the deadliest single incident in the ongoing Israel-Hezbollah conflict, an Israeli air strike apparently demolished a three-story building in the village of Qana in southern Lebanon, and according to the Red Cross, killed at least 28 displaced civilians, including 19 children, most of whom handicapped or mentally ill, who were sheltering there. The Lebanese police reported at least 56 fatalities, including 37 children."

Of course these were Lebanese rather than Palestinians.