Never mind the Times hiding the information in the middle of the piece.
"Picking Up Pieces, Gazans Debate Israel Incursion"
I can't highlight the excerpt because then the whole thing we be highlighted.
Every sentence is a worse atrocity than before:
".... The intense fighting here took place during the first two hours of the incursion Saturday just after midnight, when most of the fighters were killed. Most of the time Israeli soldiers took up positions, moved from house to house, looked for weapons, interrogated young people and arrested several dozen for further questioning inside Israel.
Tanks and armored bulldozers chopped up pavements and broke down walls, knocking down hundreds of yards of electricity and telephone cables, now being respliced. But the damage is relatively limited, and the incursion seems to have been a kind of exercise in how to take over a heavily populated area from which Hamas and other gunmen are fighting and firing rockets.
Yeah, no problem.
Israel can just barge right in, kill people, destroy everything in sight, and then transport people back to israel for torturous interrogations.
And the cry from the world community, as author puts hand to ear?
(Sound of crickets chirping)
Residents say the Israeli soldiers were more anxious than during past incursions, and gruffer. At least four young men said independently that the soldiers used them as human shields. The young men were blindfolded and handcuffed, and then lined up, two or three at a time, in front of an Israeli soldier, they said, who guided them from behind as they moved down this street or entered another building. Sometimes, they said, a soldier used their shoulders as props for his M-16 rifle.
The young men — Riad Abed Rabo, 26; his brother, Muhammad, 21; his cousin Majdi, also 21; and Hassan Abu Sabah, 32 — all said that the Israelis picked them out from the rooms in which building residents were kept, searched them, handcuffed and blindfolded them, and used them as shields before letting them go seven to eight hours later. The use of civilians as shields has been banned by Israel’s Supreme Court. A military spokesman said that some young men were cuffed, blindfolded and walked to an interrogation center, but denied that anyone was used as a human shield.... "How dare they?
HOW DARE THEY?
I NEVER, EVER, EVER want to hear the WEST or ISRAEL CRITICIZE Muslims with the FALSE CHARGES of human shields EVER AGAIN!!!!
Those LYING, LAW-BREAKING MASS-MURDERERS!!!
