As Israel Hits Mosque and Clinic, Air Campaign’s Risks Come Home
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By STEVEN ERLANGER
ISRAEL---As Israel’s air war against Hamas and Islamic Jihad fighters in Gaza entered its sixth day on Saturday, a pair of bombings threw the difficulties of the campaign into painful relief: Israel bombed a mosque, which its aerial photos indicated was harboring a weapons cache, and a center for the disabled, killing two residents and wounding three, as well as a caretaker. [link]
By STEVEN ERLANGER
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| Damaged copies of Islam's holy book the Koran lie on the rubble from a destroyed mosque following an Israeli military strike in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, on July 12, 2014. |
