(Ha'aretz) Wojciech Cegielski - I spent a month in Gaza during the 2014 war. Yes, Israel bombed Palestinian houses in Gaza. But Hamas is also to blame for its cruel and selfish game against its own people. It was obvious that they were breaking international rules of war and, worst of all, were not afraid to use their own citizens as living shields. In one incident, a man drove up in a pickup to our street. He placed a rocket launcher outside and fired. But the rocket failed to go upwards and flew along the street at ground level for a long time before destroying a building. On another day, I was sitting with other journalists in a cafe outside one of the hotels near the beach. Suddenly I saw a man firing a rocket from between the hotels. The writer is a foreign news correspondent for Polish Radio.
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