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Source: http://washingtoninstitute.org/templateC05.php?CID=3179
Resistance and Rockets: Hamas Targeting of Israeli Civilians
(Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Jeffrey White - While Hamas has recently gone to extraordinary lengths to prove that it did not attack civilian targets in Israel during the Gaza conflict, a review of its own media shows that Hamas knowingly and repeatedly fired on Israeli population centers in southern Israel. Hamas' targeting of Israeli civilians is approved and applauded in its internal publications and those aimed at Arab audiences. During the Gaza conflict, Hamas launched some 600 rockets against a broad swath of southern Israel. Targets included the major cities of Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Beersheba (combined population 850,000), as well as numerous smaller towns and settlements. Hamas boasted that more than one million Israelis live within range of its rockets.