<Most of the casualties came when an Israeli helicopter fired a missile that exploded in a crowd.

“After midnight, about 40 Israeli tanks, backed by helicopters, had entered the Khan Younis and shelled houses on the main street, witnesses said.”

“It came a few hours after Palestinians fired a mortar shell at a Jewish settlement in another part of the Gaza Strip, the military said.”

Right. A loud noise ("A" mortar round), no casualties, and then tanks and helicopters shoot up a civilian neighborhood and crowd. And which came first? What was the military doing before the mortar?

Sort of wrecks the idea of “good guys”, doesn’t it?

Says everything.

Arf (watch the people who have never seen violence root for the violence)