Thursday, January 15, 2009

What light from yonder UN Window breaks? Why it's a KORNET anti tank missile !

Here's one side, JPOST
Gunshots and an anti-tank missile were fired at IDF troops near the UN compound that was attacked by the IDF on Thursday, senior defense official told The Jerusalem Post.

Accordng to the officials, the IDF responded by firing artillery shells at the location of the gunmen and that the shells caused damage to the UN installations. At least three people were wounded and the building was set on fire.

The IDF's Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration coordinated the arrival of five fire trucks to the compound to help put out the flames.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in Israel Thursday to promote a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, expressed "strong protest and outrage" at the reported shelling of the UN compound. Ban also demanded an investigation into the shelling, and said Defense Minister Ehud Barak had told him it was a "grave mistake." Palestinians reported that an IDF tank shell also struck one of the wings of a Gaza hospital midday Thursday. Witnesses said part of the structure was on fire. The army said that the building was also being used by Hamas men who were firing on IDF troops.


I think this is great. We have a new discipline in tactics and strategy. The tactic is to emplace your weapons where the most civilians casualties on your side will occur, or the most coverage will occur on an otherwise (in the west) innocent target. The strategy is to cause those whose primary concern is how things look to others to increase pressure on those who aim to defend themselves from aggressors who have caused them to be in the vicinity of this target. And to cause those who aim to defend themselves to appear to be monsters. In fact, why not surreptitiously take those families you have killed as collaborators and dump their bodies in those buildings? Who would complain? They'd be collaborators!


And now AP...

Israeli forces shelled the United Nations headquarters in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, setting fire to the compound filled with hundreds of refugees as U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon was in the area on a mission to end Israel's devastating offensive against the territory's Hamas rulers.

Ban expressed "outrage" over the bombing. He said Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told him there had been a "grave mistake" and promised to pay extra attention to protecting U.N. installations. The Israeli military had no immediate comment on the bombing, which a U.N. official said injured at least three people.

Even as a top Israeli envoy went to Egypt to discuss a cease-fire proposal, the military pushed farther into Gaza in an apparent effort to step up pressure on Hamas. Ground forces thrust deep into a crowded neighborhood for the first time, sending terrified residents fleeing for cover.

Shells also struck a hospital, five high-rise apartment buildings and a building housing media outlets in Gaza City, injuring several journalists.

Naturally no mention of fire coming from the buildings
Next up, Israel attacks orphanage filled with disabled children of families of martyrs.
There's just one thing...guiding all this, unmentioned....


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