War Crimes and Ethics in Urban Warfare

Good article from the New York Times on the fighting in Gaza.


Two things to remember are that Gaza is densely populated, and it's population is very young. According to one poster on the Small Wars Journal forum, 63 percent of its residents were 19 or younger and 39 percent were 10 or younger in the 1997 census. That, said that person, makes fightinbg there rather like fighting inside a school.