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Originally Posted by Chill Cosby
1. They have indeed violated international humanitarian law, this is based on fact, this is not a debate.
2. You're correct, there has rarely been a lull in rocket attacks. That however, is not what the article suggests, rather that Hamas (the focus of Israel's current operation) had not fired a rocket since 2012, and that rocket attacks overall had dropped to less than 5 per month. Both of these things are true, as outlined by the link you provided. Here are the statistics:
As you can see, Hamas had not been responsible for a single rocket attack in the year 2013, as indicated by the link you provided and the sources provided by that link. Perhaps the issue is attributing the acts of others to Hamas. To think that they are the only terrorist group in the area (some rockets in the list were also fired from Syria and Egypt) or that they are the only group with rockets would be incorrect. |
In 2014 rocket attacks increased substantially. Also Hamas has a policy of neither denying or admitting to most rocket attacks. Even then, terrorist groups will often claim responsibility for attacks they didn't commit. So no one knows who committed what attack.
In March of 2014, what Hamas did do was build a giant shrine to the rockets in the middle of their capital:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/hama...191707791.html