None.
Only an idiot would believe this was done on purpose. Why would the IDF hand Hamas a propaganda blitz?/ And ALL Hamas has to do is cease fire, and Israel will halt its attacks.
Therefore the on-going violence, and all the deaths resulting, are solely the responsibility of Hamas.
So this recent conflict had nothing to do with the suspected abduction of some Israeli kids who were later found murdered and then blamed automatically on Hamas without any factual proof?
Because I'm sure Hamas would step out of the normal routine by kidnapping some no-name kids who'd have zero intelligence to extract from and just kill them for sh*ts and giggles.
"About a month ago, three teenage Israeli students — Eyal Yifrah, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel — disappeared in the West Bank, where they were studying at a yeshiva. Israel conducted a massive manhunt for them in the West Bank, on the basis of intelligence that they were kidnapped by Palestinian militants. Thousands of Israeli soldiers swept the Palestinian territory, arresting hundreds of Palestinians and shutting down Palestinian movement in wide areas.
The boys were found, dead in apparent gunshot executions, last Monday. The leading suspects are Hamas members, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insists that the entire group bears responsibility, though Hamas itself denies any role in planning or carrying out the killing. Israel responded with a limited bombing campaign in Gaza. Palestinian militant groups (though, notably, not Hamas) in Gaza fired rockets into Israel."
^ The same intelligence that led them to shelling some kids playing on a beach. The same intelligence that's blowing up innocent civilian homes without any evidence of militants or weapons being inside.
I'm not seeing a whole lot of intelligence going on around here.
Leading suspects are Hamas Members..... not that Israel wouldn't have just staged the whole thing, kidnapped the kids and killed them just to have an excuse to continue their blood lust of committing genocide of the Palestinians.
Honestly, I wouldn't put it past them. These are the same people who used Cluster Bombs, White Phosphorous Bombs and indiscriminately kill civilians on a daily basis with the cloak of trying to be humanitarians by "Warning" civilians they're about to blow them up.....
.... but hey, at least they tried right?
Any other civilized country wouldn't pull such a stunt if civilians were in close proximity or there was a chance of hitting civilians in any way.
One of the things Canadian Soldiers were great at in Afghanistan was protecting civilians and not carpet bombing an entire village for one or two insurgents, then turning around and calling them collateral. For the most part, Canadian troops were getting a better reputation in Afghanistan than most other NATO troops simply because they operated like a scalpel rather than a sledgehammer.
If Hamas is truly using civilians as shields, that's still no excuse to blast through those civilians and disregarding their safety. That's like going after bank robbers holding civilians hostage by blowing up the bank they're all inside of.
You simply don't win over people to your side when you act like that.
Sure you can blow them all up and blame Hamas for those civilians dying and maybe think other civilians may start to hate Hamas, but in reality, those civilians are going to blame those who blew up those other civilians and that would be Israel, not Hamas.
Same as in Afghanistan with the US's mentality of blowing up villages to get a couple of Taliban or Al'Q and killing a bunch of civilians. They blamed the Taliban for using civilians as shields, and figured civilians would start to hate the Taliban and Al'Q for those deaths, but the US and other NATO forces only got more hatred from those actions, not support.
Yes, Hamas is firing off a pile of rockets towards Israel..... that's because that's the only thing they can do against Israel at this stage.
But I guess Durry is right.
No sympathy here, if you want peace you don't go poking a tough person in the eye and expect nothing in return.
^ Everybody should have just left Germany alone in WWII I suppose..... oh wait, that's what started all of this mess in the first place. Everybody left them alone to do whatever they damn well pleased until the damage was already done. And this is the end result, Israel being created and Israel doing the same thing to a bunch of oppressed people whom they took their lands and have the rest of the world stepping back and letting them do whatever they please.
Guess they want someone else to suffer like they did.