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by duendefm 589 days ago
United Nations agencies like UNRWA? As for the killing reports, it seems that Israel always kills civilians and particularly kids, they seem to like to spend their money in bombs directed at them because I never see reports of combatants being killed.
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Individual combatants are rarely noteworthy enough to receive news attention. You do hear news articles when some higher-up is killed.

The deaths of children are more newsworthy, in themselves. You rarely hear their names, just the fact that it happened, because they are not otherwise notable as individuals.

Israel accuses the combatants of hiding among civilians, using them as human shields. If true, it would make the deaths of civilians inevitable. That is why hiding among non-combatants is a war crime.

I was being ironic. Israel enemies just don't destroy it because they are unable to. Israel is forced to do what they are doing.
You never see reports of ANY kind of military activity in Gaza. Even the blatantly obvious, the constant rocket launches, just never got reported. None of it.

And the Hezbollah situation is the same. Constant attacks by Hezbollah on Israeli civilians ... no mention anywhere.