(Jerusalem Post) Herb Keinon - Jerusalem on Tuesday rebuffed sharp French criticism of an Israeli air force raid on a Hamas police compound near Gaza City that lightly injured a local employee of the French consulate living a few hundred meters from the target. The windows of the home of Majdi Shakoura, a Gaza resident who holds a French passport, were shattered by the blast, and he and another family member were lightly hurt by flying shards. "We are obviously sorry for the light injuries incurred by the family, but the target of the attack, quite far away from their home, was a Hamas cell responsible for shooting rockets on Israeli civilians who suffer much more serious injuries - and even death - when Hamas rockets are fired," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor. "Thousands of Israelis suffer injuries that are similar or much worse during rocket attacks from Gaza, and they don't draw the same sympathetic remarks from the French," an Israeli official said.
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