. . .the risk to those launching the bombs into the homes, schools, hospitals, refuge centers, must outweigh the risk to the civilians in the way of those bombings. It's not an abstract concept.
Just pointing out that bombs have been found in vacant and unoccupied schools - as the UN has done regarding two vacant schools in the past couple of days - isn't a blanket excuse or justification for other instances where occupied refuge centers, clearly notifying Israel that they are being used as such, have been bombed with multiple munitions.
Even though the UN, itself, reported and condemned the two instances this week where they found rockets stored at the vacant locations, UN authorities are still labeling the deadly attacks on refuge centers based in schools as serious and actionable violations of international law.
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A Palestinian reporter on Democracy Now put it plainly: he said that even if there were Hamas combatants present at these occupied locations that are being attacked, the civilians killed far exceeded any number of combatants killed in those raids. That's what I'm referring to when I speak of the need and requirement of a risk to Israel outweighing the risk to civilians in the line of fire.
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