(Hudson Institute New York) Tom Gross - Israel's Defense Ministry is pleading with the UN agency UNRWA not to build a new school for Palestinian children next to a Hamas military installation in southern Gaza. While the ministry says it fully supports building new schools, to build a school adjacent to a Hamas military installation would be "shocking and highly irresponsible." In the past, Hamas has cynically placed its bomb laboratories next to schools in the knowledge that Israel will then be extremely reluctant to target them, even during wartime. As a consequence, children are regularly maimed when Hamas explosives accidentally explode while the group is preparing bombs and missiles. In the latest of several such incidents, in Rafah five children and two women were injured after a device in a Hamas weapons laboratory adjacent to a school accidentally exploded.
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