Katyushas hit a crowd of people and killed eleven, wounding many others.
VIDEO – Deadly fire on northern border: A massive rocket barrage was fired Sundayt afternoon at Kibbutz Kfar Giladi in the Kiryat Shmona area. Ten Israelis were killed in the attack and another person died of his wounds at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, to where he was evacuated in critical condition.
Ten people are still hospitalized at the Safed hospital and the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, four of them in serious condition.
The rocket hit what the JPost called a “gathering spot.”
At least eleven people were killed, and two others were critically wounded after a rocket hit a gathering spot in Kfar Giladi in the upper Galilee on Sunday afternoon, MDA reported.
[…] “It was a direct hit on a crowd of people,” Dan Ronen, the chief of the northern police command, told Army Radio.
The usual celebrations are taking place in the towns of Israel’s “partners in peace.”
Celebratory processions were held in Nablus following the lethal attack. Cars with photographs of Hassan Nasrallah drove past with Hizbullah flags.
And may the next rocket land in your neighborhood, scumbags.
Remember that these missiles are deliberately produced with ball bearings added to the load. They are specifically made to create as many casualties as possible.
Some of the rockets, such as those that killed eight rail workers in Haifa on July 16 and two young brothers in Nazareth on July 19, have warheads packed with thousands of metal ball bearings that spray out from the blast. Launched on civilian areas, the ball bearings are intended to inflict maximum harm.
Under international humanitarian law – also known as the laws of war – parties to an armed conflict must not make the civilian population the object of attack, or fire indiscriminately into civilian areas. Nor can they launch attacks that they know will cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects that exceeds the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated. Such attacks constitute war crimes.
Not that there’s any danger of the UN threatening Hezbullah with war crimes charges.
In addition, the warheads used suggest a desire to maximize harm to civilians. Some of the rockets launched against Haifa over the past two days contained hundreds of metal ball bearings that are of limited use against military targets but cause great harm to civilians and civilian property. The ball bearings lodge in the body and cause serious harm.
[…] “In my medical opinion, they [these rockets] are supposed to injure as many people as possible,†said Dr. Eran Tal-Or, director of the Surgical Emergency Room at Haifa’s Ramban Hospital. “If you wanted to bring down a building, you would make a weapon with a heavier blast. And you wouldn’t bother with the balls inside that don’t do much harm to buildings; just to people.â€
And on top of this, Lebanon has rejected the cease-fire agreement.
Multiply the number of ground troops, Ehud. More are needed.
“Hezbullah murders eleven more civilians”
Actually, they appear to be IDF; see here. Not that that’s a particular improvement.
Also, just FYI, the “deliberately added ball bearings” thing, well, all anti-personnel weapons do the equivalent; that’s precisely what US antipersonnel warheads (blast-fragmentation) on missiles have, and that’s what a claymore is.
It’s terrible, but it’s not — and I mention this strictly in the interest of fact, of course — any different than the fact that bullets are made out of metal; it’s not a war crime, per se, that anti-personnel weapons are anti-personnel weapons, and launch sprays of metal (shrapnel). What’s a war crime is targeting civilians, and hiding your weapons amongst civilians, and so on.
As I say, I mention this strictly so that you’ll be aware, in case someone else brings it up; I’d rather see you focus on the strong case, rather than a point that can easily be knocked down. That Hezbollah uses standard anti-personnel warheads is not a point, I think, worth focusing on. Use of such a weapon in a bomb set off in a pizsa parlor or in a mall or on a bus, is worth focusing on, instead.
And use of such weapons fired indiscriminately at cities and villages, rather than at military targets, is also worth focusing on, of course.
Terrorism, the deliberate targeting of civilians by preference, has become the standard method of Arab and Muslim warfare over the last forty years. Its use has expanded from its initial use against the Jews of Israel, the French in Algeria, and against India to the entire world. As we see in Iraq the Muslims are now using it against each other too. It may well come to be that such tactics, the preferential targeting of civilians, will become a recognized part of legal warfare. In such a case, don’t the Muslims realize that we and Israel could kill them by orders of magnitude more than the Muslims kill of us? Are they too stupid and shortsighted to realize what they are doing, legalizing mass murder as a legitimate weapon of war?
This has happened before. Before WWII aerial bombardment of civilians was looked on with the utmost horror and regarded as a war crime. Then the Axis powers stomped all over international law, including the law of armed combat. By the time they got done gassing Ethiopians from the air, terror bombing Ethiopians, Poles, Chinese, Dutch, Norwegians, and British, there was nothing left of the prohibition against such bombing. The Axis powers had no legal standing left to complain when the Allies did it to them. All they could do was whine when the Allies did it more fiercely than the Axis had been able to do.
Muslims are awfully complacent about the continued self-restraint of the people they attack so viciously.