Israeli paper confirms Israeli drones can identify precisely who is being targeted.

[Divernan]

It is difficult to believe Israel lacks the ability to avoid excessive civilian casualties. Amira Hass reports one example that confirms Israel's ability to identify, with precision, what and who, is being targeted. Miss Hass is the columnist for the Israeli daily paper Ha'aretz. Born in 1956 in Jerusalem, both of her parents were Holocaust survivors and her mother spent 9 months in the Bergen-Belsen camp during World War II. She attended the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she studied history, but dropped out and went to work for an Israeli newspaper. She covered the Palestinian-Israeli conflict from Gaza and has received both criticism and praise for her critical attitude towards the Israeli government.
She writes:

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israel-Defends-Itself-By-by-James-Wall-Hamas_Israel_Israel-Attacks-Gaza_Israel-Killing-With-U-S-Weapons-140725-363.html

"The armed Hamas operatives who emerged from the tunnel shaft on Kibbutz Nir Am on Monday were dressed as Israeli soldiers. Haaretz's Amos Harel writes that in the first moments, the field commanders were not sure whether they were soldiers or terrorists.

"'Finally, thanks to an aerial photograph taken by a drone, they were found to be Hamas operatives,' writes Harel. 'They were carrying Kalashnikov rifles, which the Israeli army does not use.' So the photographs taken by the drone can be very precise when its operators wish. It can discern whether there are children on the seashore or on the roof -- children who, even for the legal acrobats in the Justice Ministry and the army, are not a justifiable target for our bombs.

"The drone can also discern that a rescue team has arrived to pull out wounded people, that families are fleeing their homes. All this can be shown in a close-up photograph taken by a drone, at high enough resolution that the operators of the bombs and the shells have no reason to press the 'kill' button on their keyboards.

"But for some reason, the eye of the drone that can tell the difference between various makes of rifles cannot tell that this figure over here is a child, and that is a mother or a grandmother. Instead, all are given a death sentence."

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.606645

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