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Video: Terrorists firing mortars from schoolyard
Hanan Greenberg
Published: 31.10.07, 21:05
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1. Insane
Sam   (10.31.07)
It is all well and good to worry about civilian casualties. However, when these terrorists were caught red handed launching missles towards israeli cities with men women and children, Israel should have targeted the terrorists right away to prevent the launch. If innocents suffered, it would have been the terrorists' fault, not Israel. It is insane to let them fire rockets at israel unimpeded.
2. No need to prove it to the world with videos
Korem ,   New York, USA   (10.31.07)
The world will never care if Hamas launches rockets from schools. To them any proof by the IDF is "Zionist propaganda." These videos shouldn't even be released anymore. It's just depressing to think that Israel has no way to effectively stop these launching cells without the possibility of kids being injured. It's not like we should expect Hamas to be saints, but I hate seeing the IDF forced, not choosing to, but utterly forced to morally lower itself as the only method of defense. There must be some kind of techhnology in the works that could minimize loss of life AND Qassam usefulness. Some kind of anti-missile program...
3. Hypocrits Gideon Levy and Amira Hass will say nothing
Ken Jurist   (10.31.07)
Nuff said
4. Take the gloves off - or LOSE !
Michael ,   Phiily, US   (10.31.07)
5. Wait Till School's Out, Then Level It
David ,   Marietta, USA   (10.31.07)
That should get Condi's pants in a wad!
6. do you believe that
(10.31.07)
educated missile will be discriminate in hitting targets? so, why should they use those educated missile. do you believe that international law allows hitting militants in populated area or in area where civilian casualty is likely to happen? then what is the difference if they fire missiles from a school or a house or non-inhabitant area as long as international law prohibits hitting back when civilians casualty is anticipated.
7. Actions of Cowards, Pathetic
Rachel ,   NY   (10.31.07)
8. There is an effective way to deal with Hamas
Chaim ,   Canada   (10.31.07)
Target their leaders and the leaders’ homes and other assets. Start at the top and work your way down. This has proven effective in the past. Israel must keep up this pressure until they stop.
9. everyone goes
brett ,   dallas usa   (10.31.07)
level the courtyard, level the school.. anywhere there is a launch, flattin everything around there. these people want to get cute and launch around kids well flatten the area and everyone around the terrorist go. i do not believe in the moral high ground as it only causes death to israelis.. next time they launch next to a mother and her kids well then they go too.. send them all to hell in pieces...
10. #3
J K ,   NYC, USA   (10.31.07)
Thats incorrect. They will blame Israel for forcing the terrorists into the schoolyard to fire their rockets cause they might be killed if they didnt do it from the schools. Yep...they suck!
11. The terrorists were attacked after they left the school
Canadian Otter   (10.31.07)
"IDF forces struck the terrorists after they had cleared the public buildings." But what if they had dug tunnels to get to and from the school? This situation cannot ever get better. Disengagement was a mistake, even the Leftists admit to it. Israel still has a window of opportunity to take Gaza back. It can show the world that it tried to end the so-called occupation but this sacrifice led to more violence. The longer the retaking of Gaza takes, the worse it's going to be for the IDF. Those Gazans' only purpose in life is to get more and more dangerous weapons to drive the Jews into the sea. They watch the timidity on the Israeli side and they have good reason to believe that time is on their side. For Israelis to do nothing is also a choice. Jews need to learn from experience. Defend yourselves now and take Gaza back, when you still have all the advantages. And tell the UN what to do with their criticisms.
12. do you think the kids in that school wil grow up to be peace
Avi ,   New York, NY   (10.31.07)
lovers? - there is a solution dont wait till school's out
13. Our sensitivity .... looooooool
(11.01.07)
Good joke
14. The best way to deal with the bombings from Gaza
Joe ,   moon   (11.01.07)
move the prisons where the palestinian militants are held to the areas bordering gaza strip, just at the line of fire of their artillery which is targeting israeli civillians and children.
15. Korem - These videos MUST be shown!
Dakkar ,   Israel   (11.01.07)
The IDF should continue to film and publicize these videos as proof . Even if people choose to close their eyes to the truth, video evidence is extremely important.
16. # 8 Chaim in Canada
Ginette ,   Toronto, Canada   (11.01.07)
Good point! But will the "leaders" of Israel implement it? The article is not news anymore; it's an every day occurrence. Those Arab terrorists get uglier by the minute. I say hit the Hamas/Fatah leader where it hurts...in their pocket book. This should bring some positive results. Remember when Arafat compound was face to face with IDF tanks? Korem in New York, I wholeheartedly agree with you :-)
17. I love this peace process
Eliyahu   (11.01.07)
This incident is proof that airpower won't solve the problem. The pullout from gush katif has left us with no alternative but an all-out ground war. Thank you, left wing poop-brains. Unfortuantely, despite what Olmert wants to claim, the present government can't win a war against arabs, though their hellish up against 17 year old religious girls.
18. Are we that stupid??
Natan   (11.01.07)
They don't care about their own. Why should we?????
19. not just terrorists also child abusers
zionist forever   (11.01.07)
Its amazing the wonderfull new skills you can learn at school if your a palestian child. Teacher comes into the class today children we are going to learn about geomotry we will have a practical experiment for this what you have to do is work out the calculations needed to make the rocket fired from our lovley school into Israel we can also consider this a math lesson because we can try and geuss how many jews will be killed. Osama Bin Laden, Arafat, Saddam they couldhave only have dreamed about going to a school like this when they were younger. Shows how much better off the younger generation is and how they have all these wonderfull things their pearents were never able to have. These are the people we want to make peace with .. the war will conntinue with the next generation also who are allready in elementy school learning how to kill jews and they watch the Hamas verison of the Disney Club where Mickey Mouse likes to kill jews. This is child abuse.
20. Push them into Egypt,
Jordan   (11.01.07)
their Palestinian Jordanian Queen will take them into Jordan and let them mess up her house or throne.
21. WAKE UP!!! THE WORLD DOESN'T CARE ISRAEL!!!
David P. ,   Central Coast, USA   (11.01.07)
even if you showed the arabs launching nuclear bombs on video the world still wouldn't care less. the bottom line is that if you want to solve your problems you must do it yourselves without fear of being judged. it's a crappy situation, no matter what you do it will be cursed, but its better to be cursed and stay alive.
22. snipe these bastards
publius ,   USofA   (11.01.07)
Lets face it, militant actions in or around civilians, is a deliberate circumvention of laws of conduct governing combants for the obviious reasons stated... it is an activity designed to hamstring responce and force the expenditure of political capital. It is a tuff nut to crack... a few years back a similar type of warfare of the terrorist was to mingle in crowds and fire small arms, the goal was to have civilians killed in the returned crossfire. the 50cal sniper rifle put an end to that type of attack. Seeing that mortar fire and rocket launches from gaza is increasing made from civilian areas with the outcome sought of idf responce killing civilians, why not train snipers to take the shot from helicopters, maybe there are technical reasons why this can not be done, given the stakes it is worth looking into. Experimentally, maybe there can be some type of computer assistment/adjustment to stablize the rifle platform, who says there has to be an eye and a trigger finger directly behind the rifle... technology definately exist in video transmission of what is seen through optics and most definately the software technology that stablizes video camera recording of off the shelf high end digital camera could be engineered to mesh with a stablization platform that a rifle is mounted to. To me given the resources of the jewish state, it should only take a month or so to prototype such a weapon. Ynet, forward this onto idf, there is absolutely zero reason why this idea in the hands of engineers could not come up with a protype 50cal rifle barrel mounted onto a stablization platform that receives data points from helicopter's -x -y -z co-ordinates position that aides the crosshair targeting of the line of sight over video transmission, enabling a sniper kill on a crew member(s) of a motar or rocket crew setting to fire.
23. It is time
Daniel   (11.01.07)
Israel has shown the proof countless times. The time has come to issue the ultimatum. Next rocket that enters Israel from Gaza is Gaza's death knell. Give them 3 days to evacuate via Egypt and then level Gaza. Make the Allied attack on the German city of Cologne look like a picnic. In this case every single building should be razed and pushed into the sea. Leave NOTHING as though Gaza never existed.
24. To Sam - Your reasoning is logical but
Dakkar ,   Israel   (11.01.07)
the terrorists are never blamed for loss of civillian life. The IDF targetting a school would give all the Israel-haters a field-day. No matter how hard it must be, the IDF must retain its moral integrity. Us Israelis are still human beings even if though our enemies are not.
25. HELLO CNN? ANYBODY HOME. WHY IS THIS NOT ON CNN????
world citizens ,   jeruslaem   (11.01.07)
26. Wheres the voice of human rights? UN? Hypocrits!
freejay3 ,   Israel   (11.01.07)
27. NOT THE NINE"O"CLOCK NEWS BBC
Sam ,   Jerusalem   (11.01.07)
WHERE ARE YOU IMPARTIAL(sic) BBC
28. Seize all pipes from Gaza
Daniel ,   Israel   (11.01.07)
Seize all metal and cement (Up to 8" size) pipes from Gaza, replace them with plastic ones.
29. tsk tsk YNET, shouldn't you call them "militants"?
kobi ,   sydney, oz   (11.01.07)
30. make sure the major press services ..
Psalms 83 ,   Selah   (11.01.07)
have no excuse ...send them all copies........
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