to set up their command and control center there?

I bet they inadvertently neglected to mention that.

My first thought was how awful. Then as I began reading the article, I remembered that yesterday was a Saturday so no school. Then to find out it’s a former school loaded up with Hamas members pissed me off. The worst propaganda ever!

Mmm-kay...

I mean if you are cool with your tax dollar money being used in war crimes, I will cast no judgement. But personally I am not.

because that would be such a patently blatant lie that it would embarrass even them.

Do you know something they don't know? When was the last time that school children were seen in that building?

You are citing the numbers given by the hamas agency via Al Jazeera. Neither are known for their impartiality or accuracy. Neither gives account for the number of Hamas operatives among casualties. Neither mentions Hamas' criminal culpability for using Gazan civilians, including children, as human shields.

And yes, perhaps none of the children among the casualties were in schools. Unless you can show legitimate statistics to the contrary, you have no standing to suggest they were.

We fund, should probably lead to some level of pause.

If you want to dispute the wisdom of the US funding armaments for Israel, that's an entirely different issue from the one posted in the OP, and it would require addressing it in the context of all the threats Israel faces.

If you want to talk about that, you are welcome to post your own OP on the subject instead of hijacking a thread about a single incident in a localized conflict.

All I can say is I hope everything gets better -regardless of how that is done. I mourn the thousands of Israelis and Palestinians unnecessarily killed from what I consider to be stubborn narcissism on behalf of Israeli and Palestinian leadership.

My opinion is fairly partial to “please do not kill large swaths of people unnecessarily.” I can’t think of many exceptions to that belief.

That belief is a primary reason I am supporting Harris over Trump. Between covid, allowing states to enact horrible abortion bans leading to a massive rise in maternal mortality rates -along with a myriad of other examples; it is clear just how bad the other choice is.

In addition, the prospect of any type of peaceful solution in the region completely goes away if Trump is elected.