# What motive do these men have to kill children?

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**Post date:** [November 7, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-motive-do-these-men-have-to-kill-children/736956/1 "2015-11-07T20:37:32Z")

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**What motive do these men have to kill children?**

_ **12 yr old boy SHOT DEAD** in front of your eyes_  
Updated 9.48 p.m., 3rd Oct 2000  
[http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/sniper.html](http://www.themodernreligion.com/jihad/sniper.html)

\*The sad story of the **never ending killing of Palestinian children** by the Israeli Defense Force all in the name of self-defense.  
Gaza girl said killed

By Amos Harel and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents,  
and Haaretz Service

Thu., October 28, 2004  
IDF troops shot and killed an 8-year-old Palestinian girl who was on her way to school in a Gaza Strip refugee camp\*

[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494672.html](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/494672.html)

UN officials: Girl hit by IDF gunfire in UN school in Gaza  
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent and AP  
Tue., October 12, 2004 Tishrei 27, 5765  
_An **11-year-old Palestinian gir** l was shot in the stomach and critically wounded by Israel Defense Forces gunfire IDF troops fired two shots, one of the shots hit a fifth-grade student at the school. Last month, a 10-year-old girl was killed by IDF gunfire while sitting at her desk at the same school._  
[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487788.html](http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487788.html)

\*United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) 7 September 2004 At 07:45 **10-year old** Raghda Adnan Al-Assar was struck in the head by Israeli fire while sitting at her desk in UNRWA’s Elementary Girl’s School On June 1 this year **two ten-year old children** in UNRWA’s  
Al-Umariye Elementary Boys’ School in Rafah were hit by a bullet from a Israeli tank  
In March 2003  
12-year old Hoda Darwish was hit in the head by a bulletfired Two 10 year-old schoolchildren were shot in the al-Omaria school run by UNRWA in Rafah, when an Israeli tank fired into their classroom.

_Bullets fired from the tank flew through the classroom window, hitting Mahmoud Hamad in the neck and Hisham al Habil in the head. **The boys** had not even been sitting by the windows but in the middle of the room._  
[http://www.palestinemonitor.org/index.html](http://www.palestinemonitor.org/index.html)

Photos of a **12 year old** palestinian boy being shot by Israeli soldiers and the ambulance driver who tried to save him also being shot and killed.\*

> **[palestine-net.com](http://www.palestine-net.com/misc/durra/)**
>
> This domain may be for sale!

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Locked.

1. Bring a debate.

2. Don’t just cut and paste.

Never do this - or anything like this - again. You’ve been told before.
