{"id":2500,"date":"2018-06-06T10:55:16","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2018-10-02T15:34:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T02:34:44","slug":"fog-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/06\/fog-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Fog of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if conflict situations were not difficult enough to deal with, rioters on the Gaza border have used smoke and mirrors (literally)<\/a> to mask their attempts to “take down the border (with Israel) and \u2026 tear out their hearts from their bodies<\/a>“. Hamas also\u00a0sent children to the border<\/a>\u00a0to bait and test the IDF in this recent wave of violence.<\/p>\n

The use of human shields is\u00a0nothing new\u00a0<\/a>for Hamas and other Arab Palestinian terror organisations. They have also\u00a0abused ambulances for transporting terrorists\u00a0<\/a>and terrorists have pretended to be journalists<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0even medics<\/a>. This leaves those tasked with protecting the border with Gaza during violent riots with difficult decisions \u2013 it\u2019s hard to see, and even harder to distinguish innocent civilian caught up in the milieu from terrorist putting them in danger.<\/p>\n

Thus, it is sadly inevitable that some innocent people will be harmed in conflict. However, comparing the \u201ccollateral damage\u201d that Israel incurs with similar conflict situations reveals the truth \u2013the measures Israel takes to protect civilians work<\/a>. But the\u00a0case of Razan al-Najjar\u00a0<\/a>is one that needs to be investigated. With wildly\u00a0conflicting reports of her death<\/a>, the IDF have\u00a0said they will probe the incident<\/a>. She may have been shot by accident, she may have been actively involved in the violence, and she may have been killed by friendly fire.If there\u2019s one thing we should learn from the stories of\u00a0Leila al-Ghandour<\/a>,\u00a0Mohammed al-Durrah<\/a>, and others it is that we shouldn\u2019t jump to conclusions.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, our media are on tight deadlines and value speed over truth. We all look forward to the IDF report on the incident. Meanwhile, all deaths could be avoided if Hamas put down their weapons and used the aid they receive for building a state rather than trying to destroy Israel.<\/p>\n

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As if conflict situations were not difficult enough to deal with, rioters on the Gaza border have used smoke and mirrors (literally) to mask their attempts to “take down the border (with Israel) and \u2026 tear out their hearts from their bodies“. Hamas also\u00a0sent children to the border\u00a0to bait and test the IDF in this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}