Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting on Wednesday, killing 15 and wounding 90 after tearing through the walls of two classrooms, a spokesman for a U.N. aid agency and a health official said.
The Israeli military said mortar shells had been fired from near the school, and that soldiers fired back.
Later Wednesday, the Israeli military declared a four-hour humanitarian cease-fire in parts of Gaza beginning at 3:00 p.m. Hamas had no immediate comment.
Israel has lost credibility and legitimacy. There are strong alternatives to killing Palestinians. The best alternative is to set the borders to Palestine and allow the Palestinian Authority to actually be an authority. These outcomes to Palestine is due to more than a decade of belligerence by Israel than settle the borders and begin a sustained peace.
If the Palestinian borders were established and a strong central government was already in place, not even the tunnels would exist and Palestine would have an economy that would provide services to their citizens and increase their comfort. When Palestinians don't live in fear for their lives the 'idea' hostilities is necessary will be gone.
I don't care what Israel states about other extremist groups within Gaza are firing these rockets. If the Palestinian Authority existed and mattered, the danger to Palestinians of other extremists would not be tolerated and global powers would be assisting their defeat. Due to Palestine's tentative existence the danger to the citizens exist not only by Israel's aggression, but, by other violence of other extremist groups.
Palestinians live in chaos and threat of death on a daily basis. This is NOT what any support by the USA was suppose to be about.
