Boom Shocka Locka

Pretty disturbing. This is the country that receives the most aid from the US per capita, the poverty-stricken, third-world nation of Israel (ranked 24th in standard of living, right behind Germany):

Not every drone attack was incriminate, of course. At the tail end of the Gaza war, I saw an IDF remote pilot struggle to determine whether targets were suspected Hamas terrorists, or just ordinarily citizens. I watched as he called off missile launches, to prevent civilians nearby from being struck.  But other decisions to fire seem harder to justify, Human Rights Watch notes.

In one daytime attack on December 27, the first day of the Israeli offensive, an IDF drone-launched missile hit a group of students who were waiting for a bus in central Gaza City… killing nine students, two of them women, and three other civilians. The IDF has failed to explain why it targeted the group on a crowded central street with no known military activity in the area at the time.