Israeli airstrike kills Hama's Leaders wife and child. - Polidicks

[quote=BBC]Hamas says the wife and child of its military commander, Mohammed Deif, have been killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip. It is believed the air strike on a house in Gaza City late on Tuesday that killed Mohammed Deif's wife and their young son was intended to kill the militant himself, reports the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Jerusalem. The commander of Hamas' armed wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, has survived a number of previous Israeli assassination attempts believed to have left him with severe disabilities. Israeli Interior Minister Gideon Saar said the attack was justified because Mr Deif was "personally responsible" for dozens of deaths. Rescue workers later pulled out of the remains of the house the bodies of three members of the family that lived there, medics said.[/quote] [IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77058000/jpg/_77058275_77055846.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28862595[/URL] I don't get why Israel continues to bomb family homes in assassination attempts, they don't really work. Its purely punitive.

I really hate it when people think it's a justified act to kill innocent children and women in retaliatory strikes. This was just another stupid move on Israel's part.

Well I bet there won't be any retaliation at all for this, no siree this can't possibly backfire.

Killing innocents isn't going to change shit, Hamas is still going to try and exterminate Israel until their dying breath, sadly.

Yay, good luck getting someone to negotiate a peace settlement when you just bombed his wife and kid.

[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;45748595]Killing innocents isn't going to change shit, Hamas is still going to try and exterminate Israel until their dying breath, sadly.[/QUOTE] And that's exactly what Israel's right-wing government wants.

Just to point out - there are conflicting reports whether Mr Deif (the head of Hamas's armed wing) was killed in the airstrike.

Using mortars in assassination attempts is disgraceful. You'd expect Israel to behave more civilized, but they really act like they can do whatever they want, it sets a horrible standard.

[QUOTE=Gen. Crumpets;45748595]Killing innocents isn't going to change shit, Hamas is still going to try and exterminate Israel until their dying breath, sadly.[/QUOTE] If anything, it actually reinforces them in their views.

I really don't like hamas but killing one of their people's wife and child is unacceptable

[QUOTE=Gentry;45748539][IMG]http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77058000/jpg/_77058275_77055846.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28862595[/URL] I don't get why Israel continues to bomb family homes in assassination attempts, they don't really work. Its purely punitive.[/QUOTE] I think in their eyes it just worked.

I wouldn't call a low success rate with high collateral damage could be classed as 'working'. Its almost as if they just want to punish militants by killing their families if they can't kill them directly.

[QUOTE=Tinter;45748801]Using mortars in assassination attempts is disgraceful. You'd expect Israel to behave more civilized, but they really act like they can do whatever they want, it sets a horrible standard.[/QUOTE] Can you really use the term 'civilized' when referring to warfare and assassinations? Either way, using an Airstrike to assassinate someone is pretty common you know, the US does it a lot in Yemen and Pakistan..

[QUOTE=Elspin;45749016]I really don't like hamas but killing one of their people's wife and child is unacceptable[/QUOTE] One? Do you think this is the first case?

[QUOTE=Gentry;45749092]I wouldn't call a low success rate with high collateral damage could be classed as 'working'. Its almost as if they just want to punish militants by killing their families if they can't kill them directly.[/QUOTE] Many people will argue that the casualties of civilians we hear about are completely fabricated by the media.

[QUOTE=Gentry;45749092]I wouldn't call a low success rate with high collateral damage could be classed as 'working'. Its almost as if they just want to punish militants by killing their families if they can't kill them directly.[/QUOTE] Actually, assassination of Hamas leaders has proven time and again to be one of the few effective ways of destabilizing them and forcing them to reduce or halt hostilities. For example, the assassination of Yahya Ayyash, Deif's mentor, was one of the leading causes the wave of suicide bombings in the 90s was stopped. The assassination of Ahmed Yassin in the early 2000's similarly curbed that decade's wave of bombings and forced Hamas into another prolonged cease-fire. Anyway, if you accept Israel's claim that Hamas' current leadership in Gaza if bunkered under Shiffa hospital than hitting one of them when he's out still significantly reduced the number of innocent casualties, compared to the alternative.

In some of our race's more barbaric parts of history, if you committed a crime your entire family was executed because they thought that it was in your blood to be a criminal, and thus, your entire family was going to commit crimes. Good to see Israel is fleshing out their actions-that-closely-resemble-barbaric-historical-acts folder a bit.

The target pretty much now has all his friends and family dead because of his role in Hamas.

[QUOTE=Stopper;45749334]One? Do you think this is the first case?[/QUOTE] I didn't say that, nor did I imply that. I know Israel's done much worse.

[IMG]http://puu.sh/b11UD/f9db976842.png[/IMG] you people disgust me How could you be HAPPY at the fact that a women and her child was killed?

This is really sad too bad the missile didn't kill him and not his family members. It's pretty messed up that their killing people that have nothing to do with the missile launches. Draugur what year is it 2014 or 150ad.

Does Israel believe in retaliatory strikes though? It's not clear to me, given the sheer number of strikes, whether they do or not. They publicly seem to uphold that it's exclusively to destroy missile sites, known hideouts, etc, but that doesn't mean too much.

Play with fire, get burned. Sad story though...

[QUOTE=Tinter;45748801]Using mortars in assassination attempts is disgraceful. You'd expect Israel to behave more civilized, but they really act like they can do whatever they want, it sets a horrible standard.[/QUOTE] Where does it say that Israel used a mortar?

[QUOTE=joshuadim;45751871][IMG]http://puu.sh/b11UD/f9db976842.png[/IMG] you people disgust me How could you be HAPPY at the fact that a women and her child was killed?[/QUOTE] because it was the wife and child of a terrorist leader hell bent on trying to take down a whole country?

[QUOTE=AJ10017;45752303]because it was the wife and child of a terrorist leader hell bent on trying to take down a whole country?[/QUOTE] i dont think youd like it if isreal bombed your wife and kid in an attempt to kill u for things u did

Well, this is pretty much their first non-civillian murder of any significance, and it turned out that the [url=https://news.yahoo.com/hamas-says-military-chief-alive-calling-shots-gaza-134001188.html]dude might not even be dead.[/url] Great work Isreal.

It's not fucking weird that people support Hamas, all these innocent lives lost, there's always someone left behind, that will hate Israel for what they are doing. [editline]21st August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=AJ10017;45752303]because it was the wife and child of a terrorist leader hell bent on trying to take down a whole country?[/QUOTE] So you support killing innocent people?

[QUOTE=Jonzky;45748727]Just to point out - there are conflicting reports whether Mr Deif (the head of Hamas's armed wing) was killed in the airstrike.[/QUOTE] Source? I'm interested. [editline]20th August 2014[/editline] [quote]It is believed the air strike on a house in Gaza City late on Tuesday that killed Mohammed Deif's wife and their young son was intended to kill the militant himself[/quote]I'd rather see a wife and a kid dead as opposed to five hundred more casualties in an attempt to get rid of the guy.

the more innocent you kill, the greater percentage of extremists there will be. no one will care when a country of extremists dies