(JNS) Arsen Ostrovsky - In Israel this week, thousands of families had to spend the night in bomb shelters after Hamas in Gaza rained down more than 450 rockets in the space of four to five hours. That is more than one rocket every minute - the most rockets fired at Israel in one day, ever. Imagine if just one rocket was to hit an American city? How would the United States react? The only reason there have not been more casualties is because Israel invests money in bomb shelters and the Red Alert warning system. Yet there has been a striking lack of outrage from the international community as Israel has been bombarded with rockets. All those who condemned the Pittsburgh shooting must now also condemn Hamas. Hamas and the Pittsburgh shooter are united in their bloodthirsty, unrestrained hatred of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. How can it be that there is a supposed "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza when clearly Hamas has enough money to fire off hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians in one day? Unless the international community and the true champions of human rights start to hold Hamas to account, they will only further embolden and empower this terror group, becoming complicit in every rocket and mortar fired at the Jewish state and Israeli citizens. The writer is an international human-rights lawyer.
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