It's a sad day for the human race when life-savers become military targets.
This was reported in The Australian :
"At least 10 Lebanese ambulances bearing the emblem of the international red cross have instead become targets in Israeli air strikes that have killed more than a dozen civilian passengers being transported to hospitals in the south of the country.
Hospital officials in southern Lebanon have accused Israel of violating the Geneva convention by failing to respect the red cross symbol by attacking ambulances on at least 10 occasions in the two-week war that has claimed at least 12 more fire trucks and civil defence vehicles travelling between Tyre and the Israeli border.
And in their defence ?
"The Israeli Defence Force has not commented about its targeting of ambulances, but in the past has said militants in the West Bank and Gaza had used them to transport weapons and fighters, in contravention of laws governing armed conflict."
In statistics, this is called a 'Type II error' - Accepting something that should have been rejected. A common metaphor for this is to send an innocent man to jail, as opposed to letting a guilty man go free.
I fear for future generations. Suicide bombings are bad enough, but this is just outright disgusting.
And it's not the first time it's happened either: IRAQ: Hospitals Come Under Siege
Why can't we all just get along ? *sigh*
