10 Bullets in the Head at Gaza Child Massacre

Palestinian gunmen killed the three young children of a senior Palestinian intelligence officer Monday, pumping dozens of bullets into their car along a street crowded with schoolchildren ? an apparent botched assassination attempt that could ignite widespread factional fighting.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the drive-by shooting, which left the white car riddled with bullets and the children's schoolbags and a small plastic bag with a sandwich covered in blood....The attack came early Monday morning when gunmen in two vehicles riddled the car carrying the children with some 60 bullets, Palestinian security officials said. Balousheh's three sons ? Osama, 9, Ahmed, 6 and Salam, 3 ? were killed, in addition to their driver, hospital officials said. Balousheh was not in the car.

The car was soaked in blood. A children's backpack, emblazoned with cartoon characters and the word "Friend," lay on the front seat, covered in blood. Another schoolbag was in the back.

Four more people were wounded in the attack on Palestine Street, which is lined with nine schools. The attack sent nearby children running for cover. Some dropped to the ground, others fled in panic.

"We saw fire coming from one car. We started screaming and children started running," said Fadwa Nablus, 12, who had been walking to school with her 9-year-old brother....

During the funeral procession, mourners shouted "God is great" amid the sound of gunfire.

One boy had 10 bullet holes in his head....Gunmen had twice before tried to kill Balousheh.

The theory of Israeli-Palestinian centrality is not only false, it is dangerous - because it prevents the world from addressing the real root cause of all these conflicts, including the Israeli-Palestinian one: a widespread culture in the Muslim world that views violence and threats of violence as legitimate means of resolving disputes....

If the West really wants to solve its Muslim problem, it must adopt the opposite approach - making it clear that violence, far from being rewarded, will be penalized. By instead seeking to appease the Muslim world in Israeli coin, it merely proves that violence pays.

And it will thereby reap more of the same.