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Civilians are Dying, not Hamas Members |
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Written By:
Hakim Almasmari (
Editor-in-Chief) Article Date: March 3, 2008 |
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Sadly, hundreds of innocent citizens have
died or have been injured in Gaza over the last week. I will not talk
about who is right and who is wrong, but what I want to focus on is the
reason for the attack on Gaza.
Israel claims that Hamas missiles have been harming its safety and keeping its citizens scared and terrified. However, not more than ten Israelis have been injured over the last month, and only one Israeli civilian has died. Now from the Palestinian side, over one hundred have died in less than one week, and more than 300 injured, not to mention in the last month. Are the Hamas missiles really why Israel is attacking Gaza? If so, then why is Israel attacking innocent civilians, women, children, and new born infants instead of attacking the people or group who are sending the missiles to Israel, which in this case in Hamas. Over 30 children, and more them 25 women have died this week under the barbaric attacks on Gaza. Now, if we look at how many Hamas members were killed, media sources do not put the number higher than 10, which means less than ten percent of the killed were from Hamas Movement. Why is it that the wrong people die in this war, while we rarely hear of casualties from both the Israeli or Palestinian Armies. Civilians suffer for the wrong doings of others. In the end, this is exactly what wars do.
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