Amos Harel and Yoav Stern, Haaretz Correspondents and News Agencies: 20 Palestinians killed in string of IDF operations in Gaza Strip
Talkback
Title:Hamas is to blame. Hamas` blackmail will not deter Israel.
Name:Shlomo from Tel-Aviv
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Hamas turned Gaza strip into the battlefield by its terror against Israel. Civilians at the battlefield risk their lives. This is very sad, when civilians are killed, IDF should do its best to avoid civilian casualties and it does. But the blame is on those, who turned Gaza into the battlefield - on Hamas.
It`s been a long time that the Hamas bandits are blackmailing Israel: "We`ll attack your civilians, but don`t dare to fight against us, because Palestinian civilians may be killed as the result".
The time of this blackmail is over. Israel should do all precautions to avoid civilian casualties but should not be deterred by such blackmail from fighting the filth, which attacks Israeli civilians. Israeli government and the army has duty to protect Israelis from terror. This is the main objective and the second objective is to minimize the Palestinian civilian casualties and suffering of the Palestinians, uninvolved in terror.

My sincere condolences to the families.