Gaza Strip: An Israeli pilot aborts a bombing because there are children in the building

The escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine is reaching very high levels. After several days of heavy bombing in the Gaza Strip, Palestine accuses the Israeli forces of killing children in their bombings while the Israeli authorities defend that they try to avoid civilians in their attacks. In the video that accompanies the news, released by the Israel Air Forces, you can see the moment in which a pilot warns of the presence of children at the target to be bombed and they abort the mission. pilot to check if there are children in the target to be bombed. The pilot, although at first hesitant, finally warns that it is “probably” children that they hardly see in the poor quality thermal images he receives. Suspecting that it could be a group of children, the commander decides to abort the mission. The Israeli army bombed Gaza again in the early hours of Monday, after a black week in which about 200 people died in the confrontation between Israel. and the Islamists of Hamas, who continue to turn a deaf ear to international calls for an end to hostilities. On the night of Sunday to Monday, Israeli aviation carried out dozens of bombings in a few minutes, causing power cuts, an AFP journalist who is in the area confirmed. Hundreds of buildings have been destroyed in the Gaza Strip, according to local authorities, who have not yet provided a balance of victims. For its part, the Israeli army said in a statement on Monday that it attacked nine homes owned by senior Hamas officials, some of which were used to “store weapons.”The Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, indicated this Sunday at the end of the meeting of his Council of Ministers that the fight against Hamas “continues at full power” and has asked for time to resolve the situation. Likewise, the Israeli president has added that Israel has the support of the international community, starting with the president of the United States, Joe Biden, whom he thanked for his support of the Army’s operation against the Palestinian Islamist movement, as quoted by the Israeli newspaper ‘Haaretz’. “It will take some time,” he added.