Hamas Embeds Itself Among Diplomats?

Turns out the French consul in Gaza, his wife and 13-year-old daughter were hit by shrapnel during Sunday's IAF air…

By November 15, 2011

Turns out the French consul in Gaza, his wife and 13-year-old daughter were hit by shrapnel during Sunday’s IAF air strike on a Hamas naval facility. Reuters says their residence was just 200 meters from the site.

It’s bad enough Hamas training facilities, rocket factories, arms depots and Qassam launching sites are in civilian areas.

I wouldn’t compare any Gaza neighborhood with Washington’s Embassy Row. But Hamas is surely aware of the location of every diplomatic mission in the Strip.

Are they embedding themselves among diplomats too?

(Image via Flickr/euthman)

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Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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