The UN School Incident

UN School in Gaza Used as Mortar Firng Position

Much is being made in the media of the casualties caused by an Israeli strike on a UN school in the Gaza strip. Any and all civilian casualties are tragic (and we may never know the make up of the casualties ... how many were civilians/fighters ... how many of the bodies were brought in from other sites etc(as in lebanon). However, it should be noted that Hamas used UN schools as mortar firing positions in the past, and it is coming out that this was exactly the case here. It should also be noted that yesterday a Hamas rocket scored a direct hit on a kindergarten in Ashdod, and there was a near miss recently on one in Beersheba. There were no casualties in Ashdod only because kids were held out of school. As the hysteria mounts ... it's important to have some perspective.