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Israeli pilot describes 'good strike' that killed 15 Gazans in 2002 - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Israeli pilot describes 'good strike' that killed 15 Gazans in 2002 - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News: "The airmen who bombed the home of a Hamas military leader in 2002 did not know or did not want to know the identity of their target before the strike, according to T., one of the crewmen directly involved, who spoke recently with students at a secular yeshiva in Tel Aviv.

The July 22 bombing of the home of Salah Shehadeh, who had headed Hamas’ military wing, in the densely populated Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, killed a total of 15 people, including Shehadeh and his assistant. The other victims included eight children ‏(ranging in age from less than a year to 14 years old‏) and three women.

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