Love it when you join a discussion Joe, as you always stitch yourself up. You certainly add to my amusement for the day
Let's look at your statement!
The rockets which you cannot deny have been fired at anything possible by Hamas - mainly targeting populated town's. That's a fact!
The Israeli defense system has downed most of them, luckily or the deaths would obviously be higher - Yes?
But at the end of the day they were fired in the hope of inflicting damage to civilians.
Ok, moving onto why so many civilians have died in Palestine:
Simple - Human shields in a densely-populated area. We have seen how barbaric Hamas can be - it's in their blood.
How can Israel target out a single rocket launcher and operator when placed in schools, hospital grounds, etc?
Tough, it has to be taken out and it's Hamas with the blood on their hands.
Now Hamas have broken ceasefire again!
So Israel will attack with more and more force till the rocket attacks cease - I would do the same if I was being attacked.
Can you remind me how this latest escalation started Joe? Oh yeah, 3 Israeli teenagers were butchered. Blimey, thought you must have forgotten about that.