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...revealed that a probe led by Major General Meir Kalifi has absolved Israel of blame. According to Kalifi, the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.), on the basis of aerial surveillance, have fixed the time of the explosion at between 4:57 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. In response to Qassam rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, the I.D.F. fired six artillery shells toward the beach from 4:32 to 4:51, which would make it almost impossible for one of them to have caused the explosion. The report also found that a piece of shrapnel taken from the body...
...right? The Israeli government is unlikely to reopen the probe or permit another team of independent investigators to examine the evidence. Defenders of the army's practice of shelling Palestinian targets in response to rocket attacks say responsibility for civilian deaths lies with Palestinians who refuse to prevent violence against Israel. But, as other Israelis point out, shelling a densely populated region with imprecise munitions cannot help putting civilians at risk. Huda Ghaliya now lives with her mother and a brother who survived the blast. "She has a masked face, no emotions," says Eyad Sarraj, founder of the Gaza Community...
...late spring Sunday afternoon in the Israeli village of Netiv Ha'asara, the familiar notes of conflict - periodic incoming rocket fire and the alerts that attend it, the more sustained outgoing artillery barrages - have fallen silent. But the peace won't last. A few hours later, loudspeakers emit the booming call - "shachar adom" [red dawn] - that warns residents a rocket has been launched from Gaza. They have 20 seconds to get to their bomb shelters. "It's a routine," says Pnina, 59. "Unfortunately, we are getting used...
...April the Israeli army began responding to Palestinian rocket attacks more aggressively, firing up to 300 155-mm artillery shells back at Gaza when fired upon by Qassams; it even reduced the required distance between a target and civilian areas or homes from 300 m to 100 m (with ammunition customarily lethal up to 50 m from impact, and potentially lethal well beyond that). Since that time, it has fired thousands of shells into Gaza, which, Brigadier General Aviv Kohavi, commander of the idf's Gaza Division, said several weeks ago, has reduced the number of rocket attacks and rendered...
...Rather than moderate its behavior, the latest string of events may have tipped the balance in Hamas toward the hardliners. Those within Hamas that had argued for restraint and some form of coexistence with Israel - not to mention warned that permitting ongoing rocket fire from Gaza was a road to disaster - are now being drowned out by those calling for a resumption of violence. The images of the family destroyed by the Gaza beach explosion have darkened the mood on the Palestinian street, where there is a growing appetite for revenge for Hamas to tap into. And as long...