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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]Right now, they are putting kids bodies in ice cream coolers because they ran our of room .Some people call Hamas Terrorists and some call them Heroes. Some call Israel a terrorist state and some call it a legitimate state. Children are children,[b] if you kill them intentionally [/b]and try to justify the reasons behind doing that, then everybody will call you a terrorist. Period.[/quote]

I agree with every you say except for the implication of what is in bold.  I am 100% certain that Israel is not killing kids intentionally.  That kids are dying is a tragedy.  But they are not being killed intentionally.

If the militants did not use the area near the shelters as launch sites, if the militants did not use the shelters to store weapons (a war crime, by the way), then shelters would not be hit.

I am not on the ground, so I do not know what is actually happening, but consider the possibility that Hamas militants are firing from the vicinity of shelters...say 20m - 30 m away.  Israel responds with artillery or mortars to the launch site.  Unfortunately, there is something called Circular Error of probability (CEP).  The CEP for the artillery is typically on the order of 10 m, according to [url]http://aviationweek.com/awin/new-israeli-artillery-concepts-technology-combine-0 [/url].  With a CEP of 10, that means that there is a 50% chance that the munition will land within 10 m of the target.  That is pretty good.

Now, if you launch 100 attacks, 1/2 will miss by more that 10 m, 1/4 or so by more than 20m. So of the 100 rounds, 25 will miss by more that 20 m, but in any direction.  A shelter is 20 m from the target....assume the shelter is 20x20 m, and 20m is the closest point.  In such a scenario, simulations I did indicate they would have about a 3.5% chance of hitting the shelter.  In this scenario, they were not targeting the shelter.  The problem is the children are caught in the crossfire, not that they are being intentionally targeted.

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