It is a pity that LAW continues to assume that there is a worldwide television blackout. While it is true that CNN, BBC and other television coverage tends to focus on Israeli armed forces, they still do show a considerable number of Palestinians firing rifles and guns. To claim that the Palestinian armed forces are "stone throwers" is an insult to the intelligence of the Western audience LAW is trying to reach. The so-called civilians who died in Gaza today included Palestinians in reinforced gun positions as well as someone who was trying to drop a gas tank rigged with a bomb down onto an Israeli position.
A recap of the situation: Israel today is facing Tanzim militia men who aren't supposed to exist under Oslo, Palestinians firing machine guns and other weapons that are not supposed to exist under Oslo, and in the case of Netzarim Junction these "protestors"are shooting from the vantage point of two tall buildings that are not supposed to exist according to Oslo that overlook the Israeli position.
Israel is suffering from terrible PR because a boy who decided to put himself in the middle of a battlefield over a day into the fighting placed himself in between two Palestinian machine gun positions that are not supposed to exist under Oslo that were engaged in a firefight with an Israeli position down the street. The world cries out that Israel did not cease fire but does not ask for a moment why the Palestinian "demonstrators" manning the machine guns within meters of the boy did not stop shooting and try to save the boy and his father. The world does not ask why one of them did not pull out his cellular phone and call someone above them to explain that something had to be done to stop the shooting for a moment to get the boy out. The world does not ask why the Palestinian "stone throwers" opted instead to continue the firefight while they waited for boy to become a shahid.
A final irony: No one is asking why the world prefers to see firefights that continue for hours - with the possibility of one of the thousands of bullets finding its way to a bystander - over the use of a decisive round from a tank. Thanks to world pressure, the IDF probably shot thousands of bullets at those two machine gun positions instead of two well aimed shells. Shells that would NOT have hit the boy.