I have no doubt that hundreds of Gazan civilians have been killed by IDF fire. I'm sure that some were the victims of erroneous attacks by the Israelis. The IDF makes errors. Several Israeli soldiers were the victims of fratricidal attacks, commonly referred to as friendly fire. In combat, things go wrong.

But if you study the IDF footage below, there should be no doubt about why most of the Palestinian civilians who were killed became victims. You can see AAA and mortars deployed on the rooftops of civilian residences. About a minute into the clip you see IDF air strikes with precision-guided bombs hitting weapon storage depots. The secondary explosions, as the stored weapons cook off and blow, are often larger and more extensive than the explosions caused by the actual IDF bomb. What happens to the civilians who live in the vicinity of such secondary explosions?



Hamas knows exactly what it's doing. It brags about how it uses civilians for protection. You have to wonder how many were actually killed by Hamas's own exploding munitions stockpiles placed in civilian neighborhoods.

I've posted this Hamas video before, but in case you're new to this blog and missed it, here it is again.