I really don't know what happened there. It is pretty clear that the soldier who shot Hurndall did so intentionally; whether it was a case of mistaken identity or he wanted to kill him specifically, or as a member of ISM with which the IDF soldiers could very well have been frustrated - I don't know. Yes, this could be a war crime, likely is. A routine war crime that most armies commit during most wars.
Now, if you read the same story again you are gonna' notice that the ISM was planning to set up a tent that would block Israeli armor from traveling a certain road. Don't you think that sort of thing is - in a direct military sense - quite advantageous to the other side?
And no, ISM is not "right hand of HAMAS"; but that doesn't mean that what ISM does could not be of immediate use to HAMAS - in the military, not ideological sense.
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Date: 2006-03-14 08:12 am (UTC)Now, if you read the same story again you are gonna' notice that the ISM was planning to set up a tent that would block Israeli armor from traveling a certain road. Don't you think that sort of thing is - in a direct military sense - quite advantageous to the other side?
And no, ISM is not "right hand of HAMAS"; but that doesn't mean that what ISM does could not be of immediate use to HAMAS - in the military, not ideological sense.