Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this weekend that Hamas would "pay an intolerable price" for its assaults on Israel.
It is the people of Gaza who are paying the price, whether they are Hamas soldiers or adherents, or civilians who voted for Hamas years ago ... or just individuals in a designated UN shelter in Rafah who couldn't get out of the way.
Now the latest headline from the New York Times describes an Israeli Air Force missile that struck near the entrance of a United Nations school sheltering displaced Gazans in Rafah, killing 10 people and wounding 35 others.
The Washington Postreported:
Capt. Eytan Buchman, a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, said the targets of the attack were three militants riding past the school on a motorcycle. “We identified a successful hit on the target,” Buchman said. “We definitely don’t target civilians or schools.”Below the cirlicue ...