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From: LindyBill	3/7/2008 5:08:14 PM
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Hamas Putting Children On Rooftops To Thwart IDF Attacks By Bash on Bashman Article Golda Meir (former Israeli Prime Minister) said: “We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.” Jerusalem - Hamas has positioned young children on the rooftops of buildings in the Gaza Strip in order to prevent Israeli air strikes, said a high-ranking Israeli Defense Force (IDF) Intelligence Branch officer to the Israeli media. The officer said that the IDF had canceled planned strikes on Kassam rocket assembly lines or storage facilities in order to refrain from killing the children who were posted on their rooftops. The officer made this statement in the course of a briefing by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to foreign ambassadors in Israel. He said that, before the IDF struck Kassam rocket assembly lines or storage facilities, it dropped leaflets urging the residents to leave the area. Hamas, however, sent small children up onto the rooftops. As a result, the Israeli air force canceled plans to bomb such sites at the last moment. Mr. Livni told the ambassadors that the Geneva Conventions played no role in Hamas’ decision-making process. She said: “We are working with our hands tied behind our backs because of all those laws and because we are part of the free world and because that is part of our values. Accidents happen and civilians are killed in Israeli operations. I can’t ignore that, but I hope that there is better understanding as to what it is that we are trying to achieve.”

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