Israel suggest Hamas death cult responsible for killings atr UN school

NY Times:

Israel Says It Did Not Kill Palestinians at U.N. School

Israel and Hamas went back and forth on cease-fire proposals as Israel sought to bolster its claim that its forces were not responsible for the deaths of 16 Palestinians reportedly killed in an attack on a United Nations school.
It is possible that Hamas did it by accident, but the group is of the mentality that they would sacrifice their own in order to tar Israel.  The Islamist call these victims "involuntary" martyrs.  It was a fairly common practice by al Qaeda in Iraq.  Hamas has shown a willingness to put civilians in harms way as human shields.  At the time of the event the Israelis were defeating Hamas fighters in Gaza and they may have hoped that staging a fake atrocity would slow the Israeli attack.  A lot of the media bought the scam and used it to put pressure of Israel for a cease fire.  It was a tactic used against teh US in both Iraq and Afghanistan.  Wedding were a favorite target for such ruses.

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