Gaza

Facts :

Hamas and other militants/terrorists have intentionally fired thousands of missiles and mortars at Israeli civilians and civilian institutions such as playgrounds, hospitals, and schools, over a number of years;

Hamas and other militant/terrorist intentionally place their own civilians in harm’s way by placing military installations and storage facilities in their midst (often inside of hospitals, schools and mosques), by firing missiles mortars from civilian locations; and by using their civilian populations as human shields; and

Hamas and other militants/terrorists create potential humanitarian disasters in Gaza by refusing to distribute supplies delivered through Israel, by attacking crossings through which supplies are delivered, which attacks require the closing of those crossings, and by other acts.

Hamas and other militants/terrorists propagandists have the TV cameras ready to transmit every inflammatory image they can find to distort the effects of Israeli actions; and will exaggerate the number of civilians who are unintentionally (if inevitably) killed by Israel’s defensive actions by, for example, including as "children" Hamas fighters who are 16 or 17 years old and by including as "women" female terrorists (i.e., by passing off combatant casualties as civilian casualties).

There is real sufferings of non-combatant Palestinian civilians that are unintentionally, though predictably, caused by Israel’s more than justified reactions to the harms inflicted upon Israel’s civilian population.


We acknowledge and empathize with the sufferings of non-combatant Palestinian civilians and acknowledge the agency of Israel in causing the sufferings even while knowing the propriety and justice of Israel’s defensive actions. All joy in Israel’s success in its defensive efforts will be significantly dampened by the sorrow felt for the suffering it has caused, however justified Israel’s actions were.
But no sane nation can tolerate missiles being shot daily at its population, designed to terrorize and kill.