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Rafa, Gaza - Four Israeli soldiers were killed in pitched battles with Hamas-inspired militants at a Palestinian refugee camp on Sunday as the worst fighting in the past year overtook Gaza.
Security sources said 15 more soldiers were wounded in the fighting with Hamas militants at Maghazi camp. There was no immediate word on militant casualties.
The army has pushed slowly into the camp, fighting close-quarter battles with Hamas militants after bombarding its positions with artillery and tank fire to try to force the group to surrender.
Witnesses said the army concentrated its latest artillery shelling on pockets still held by Hamas near the camp's main road and the northeastern area.
The camp, home to 40,000 refugees before the hostilities, has been completely destroyed and it was expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild. Its residents have sought shelter in other Palestinian refugee camps.
Yet another atrocity by the Israel Defense Forces. While responding to missile fire into Israel by Hamas terrorist cells, they managed to completely destroy a Palestinian refugee camp, leaving 40,000 people homeless.
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The story above is almost true. To see the real version, check out this story from Reuters. Or if you don't want to leave this page, substitute "Lebanese" for "Israeli", and "Al Qaeda" (or some other terrorist group" for "Hamas" (as well as the geographical locations) in the above excerpt.
Question: how shocked and appalled at Israel's alleged barbarism were you before reading the previous paragraph? Did you accept the story that Israel completely destroyed a refugee camp home to 40,000 people? (Israel actually has a history of putting its own soldiers at risk instead of just carpet bombing a residential area where terrorists are hiding).
Why is this article buried in all of the newspapers (the headline itself is that 4 Lebanese soldiers were killed - the fact that the Lebanese army completely destroyed the camp is only a number of paragraphs into the article)? Why doesn't the world care about the Palestinian "refugees" now?
