Haaretz Service and News Agencies: Israel targets senior Hamas, Islamic Jihad commanders in fresh Gaza strikes
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Title:Collective punishment?
Name:Jehudah Ben-Israel
City: JerusalemState: Israel
What have been the rocket and mortar shells launched daily at the civilian population of southern Israel - child woman, man and the elderly - by the armed forces of Gaza, i.e. Hamas, Islamic Jihad? What was the nature of these attacks if not collective punishment? And punishment for what? For the fact that they were blue color Jews, working for their living in the small industrial towns, and farmers of the collective farming communities of southern Israel?

Indeed, those attacks have been and continue to be to this very moment war crimes and crimes against humanity!

Israel`s reaction has come about as a form of self-defence, of its citizens and its very sovreignty, a action any other state in the world would probably have taken a long time ago!