How many Hamas Freedom Fighters do you think there is exactly?
And how can you know these things?
Are you there? Do you make the 'phone calls'?
Are you a human shield?
I Think that there is an awful lot of civilian casualties, no matter who may, or may not be, telling porkies. Based on the fact that those flats I watched being blown up Here Could not have been soley populated by Hamas.
On another note, leaflets(stating their intentions)were not dropped by the Israeli army until the ground offensive started, according to most press reports. So civvis could not have known about what was going to happen in the first instance.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 2:53, Reply)
One friend of mine made the phonecalls
another currently listens to Hamas phone conversations.
I'm not a human shield, I'm a target.
Also I'll Gaz you the article some other time, BBC may have to do, but it's of the organised human shield tactic.
Israel didn't drop leaflets because they had set up an entire propaganda campaign of misinformation. The head of defence even went on a satirical TV show mocking the concept of a war; the next day all Hamas were exactly where the Israelis expected to be and the first day had massive Hamas losses to relatively few civilian casualties; the 60 miltia/police deaths, for example.
It would be interesting to see over what period the civilian deaths occured.
Vidoes not loading, could you find a mirror? And why wouldn't these blocks be entirely Hamas? And if they're not, what are Hamas doing in the same blocks as civilians? We know full well they can afford to take however much Gazan land they choose.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 2:59, Reply)
Well that would bring me back to my first point...
How many Hamas freedom fighters were there at the start of this? And why wouldn't they live like normal people in normal Gazan flats?
Also, how rich do you think they are? If there is so many of them how far would the wealth go?
The video stream seems to be faulty. I'll see if I can find it elsewhere... it's a live webcam set up somewhere.
(, Mon 19 Jan 2009, 3:13, Reply)