(Embassy of Israel-New Zealand) Israel is currently experiencing a large-scale wave of terror that is being directed entirely at civilian population centers throughout the country. No country would tolerate such extreme levels of aggression. Every rocket launched at Israel is a war crime. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have carried out over 1,500 war crimes in the past three days. 20-30% of the rockets launched by Hamas fall inside Gaza. At least 9 Palestinian children were killed by these rockets. Israel is acting against these attacks in a measured and accurate manner and on the basis of unequivocal intelligence information, adhering to the principles of international law. Hamas is attacking Israel for its self-declared goal of eliminating Israel. Hamas has exploited the tensions surrounding the Sheikh Jarrah legal matter and turned it into a nationalist issue. Whoever links Hamas' hundreds of rocket launches against the civilian population in Israel to the issue of Sheikh Jarrah is playing into the hands of the terrorist organization and granting legitimacy to terrorist activities.
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