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targeting one person don't cut it. Israel never got it.
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IDF accused of 'knowingly risking Palestinian lives'
By Yuval Yoaz, Amos Harel and Michal Greenberg, Haaretz Correspondents

Six human rights organizations appealed the High Court on Sunday to
cancel a regulation which allows Israel Defense Forces artillery to
fire shells at targets up to 100 meters away from Palestinian houses.

Last week Defense Minister Shual Mofaz reduced the safety range down
from 300 meters in an effort to put a stop to Qassam rocket fire from
the Gaza Strip into Israel.

Attorney Michael Sfard claimed on behalf of the human rights
organizations that Mofaz's decision deliberately endangers Palestinian
lives because the shells are known to land within a 100-meter spread
from their targets.

IDF officers admitted that the new regulations put Palestinian lives at
risk but insisted it would help strike back at Palestinian militants
launching rockets at Israeli civilians.

Last week a 12-year-old Palestinian girl was killed and five of her
family members were wounded when an IDF artillery shell struck their
house in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahiya. In response, IDF
Chief of Staff Dan Halutz asked Mofaz to reinstate the previous safety
regulations, but was turned down.

"We have no way of ensuring that civilians will not be hurt in the next
shelling," an IDF officer recently told Haaretz. "But the bombardment
[of targets in Gaza] disrupts the activities of Qassam rocket launching
cells. They feel threatened and fire quickly, without taking aim, in
order to get out of the area. That's why lots of the rockets fired
lately landed in the sea. We cannot allow a situation in which our
civilians, [who live] around the Strip, will be held hostage by
terrorist organizations," the officer said.


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