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[quote=jsteele]Last night Israeli bombed another UN school killing at least 20 people, many of them children. Here is how the UNRWA Spokesperson described it:

https://twitter.com/ChrisGunness/status/494440160780496897

"Last night, children were killed as they slept next to their parents on the floor of a classroom in a UN designated shelter in #Gaza"

Israel has bombed at least 7 schools. Most, if not all, were occupied at the time by people taking refuge from homes they had been ordered to abandon. Like the school bombed last night, the schools were designated UN shelters. Their locations and use as shelters had been conveyed to the Israelis.

Over the same period, three 3 UN schools were found to have had rockets stored in them. I have not heard Israel make an allegation that any of the schools that were bombed contained rockets. But, it is obvious that if the UN finds weapons, it publicizes the fact and removes them.

I am interested in the moral implications of the Israeli actions. Let's take the worst case scenario in which rockets have been hidden in a school full of refugees. Given that Palestinian rockets have killed only 3 Israelis, the threat of a handful of rockets is fairly low. Is it really necessary to kill 20 people, many of whom are children? If Israel knows about the rockets, would it be worth asking the UN to remove them rather than committing wholesale slaughter? It appears that Israel goes immediately to the most lethal reaction possible rather than attempting other options.

The fact that Israel orders Palestinians to abandoned their homes and then bombs the designated shelters is unconscionable. That such a high number of children end up as victims is indefensible (which won't stop Israel's apologists from defending it). A country that willingly bombs schools sheltering sleeping children has truly lost its way. 
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