"Accepted practice is to evacuate civilians from military installations when hostilities are imminent.
"Have you taken a look at how tightly packed Gaza is - there is nowhere for them to go, and had all sides adhered to accepted practice the Israelis would not have bombarded and used heavy artillery on densly populated areas.
"The other side must give prior warning, as Israel did, (negating the advantage of surprise) and must try to minimise civilian casualties."
Then why did the UN consider prosecuting Israel for war crimes - prejudice I suppose.
You are presenting a scenario that runs counter to eye witness accounts - giving the "unbiased" Israili point of view as admitted
At least we seem to have got an honest answer at last about the "expendibility" of hostages - which you denied strenuously.
"They acted without orders."
Which still makes the offficers in charge responsible and exposes the total lie of Bloody Sunday on the part of various Governments since
Jim Carroll