First of all ptitchke-you may not know but we also had our "dance with a cut head" by hamas & islamic jihad productions LTD. Arafat forbade it because it harmed the palestinian propoganda. The film was published in al jazeera for a while.
Do we have it on our side?
A warning shell can exist with no lethal casualties what so ever, provided that it explodes in an abandoned building, and provided that the demonstrators were far off enough.It did not happen? It is war. **** happens. It is not nice, but you will never name a single war where civilians were unharmed. Getting near a tank while you could be a suicide bomber (yes, that though did not cross your mind? [img]tongue.gif[/img] ) is well, a suicide. What could soldier think? -I can be dead in a few moments. I can not verify thier innocense. Lets kill/scare them before
i am killed and the hell with GC.
It is a very problematic situation in the best case, and must be viewed with caution. In all history of warfare there were too few wars with usage of powerfull suicide bombers. Israel as strange as it sounds has more experience with this kind of warfare. It is very easy to criticize. When you ask yourself- what the heck am i supposed to do then? you realise that there are not easy solutions nor harmless regarding the civilians.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/429428.html
The late news. Only 8 killed instead of initial 23 and 10 that came later. Still a lot, but that is (probably) the final number.