Posted on July 21, 2014

Netanyahu: Hamas "Wants To Pile Up As Many Civilian Deaths As Possible"

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU: Yeah, I don't want to deal with off-the-cuff remarks. I'll tell you what my experiences have been. I've been in war. I've been in battle. And when you take a surgical operation you can't guarantee when your soldiers are being fired from Hamas homes, that is Hamas is targeting people with- from private homes, and you hit them back. Of course some people are going to be hurt. That's totally different than deliberately targeting them. And you know what…the forces that went into Shujia. This place where there are tunnels in homes. We have to clear out the homes Hamas put civilians, Palestinian civilians there. We go out to ferret out rocketeers and anti-tank rocket fire, Hamas put civilians there. We asked these civilians, before we went in, we said please leave. We text them, we call them on cell phones, we drop leaflets, we told them where to go. And those who left were safe. Now those who didn't leave, you know why they didn't leave, because Hamas told them to be there. Because Hamas, while we try to avoid Palestinian civilian dead, Hamas wants Palestinians civilians dead. The more the better so it can give you telegenic fodder. So this is the cruelest, most grotesque war that I've ever seen. It actually wants to pile up as many civilian deaths as possible.