Military reveals Hamas command posts in and beneath Gaza hospital
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Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari briefs foreign press on terror tunnels accessed from inside hospital wards, plays conversations on the locations of those terror HQs, Hamas control of fuel

The IDF revealed on Friday, what it described as intelligence showing a Hamas command center located under a the Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. In a briefing, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told members of the foreign press corps that there are areas in the hospitals that are used by Hamas to direct its military operations.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    1 year ago

    Do Israeli leaders know that when a terrorist uses “human shields,”, you aren’t supposed to kill the “human shields”? You’re supposed to prove you’re better than the terrorist by valuing civilian life.

    “Human shields” in quotes because they seem to think Hamas using tunnels makes all of Gaza a human shield. But if you value human life on the x and y axis and kill civilians on the z axis, you’re still a war criminal. Real life is 3D.

      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have a problem with crushing the Al-Qassam Brigades or crushing Hamas leadership structure. I do have a problem with the loose definition of human shield and pretending the health ministry is the Al-Qassam Brigades.

        I root for team civilian but even if I had a special place in my heart for Israel, I think what they’re doing is counterproductive. Every civilian killed means two terrorists a few years from now.

      • Syntha@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        1 year ago

        From what I understand, putting militarily installations in places of worship, schools, hospitals and similar, is a war crime even in non-international conflicts.

      • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        get as many hostages out

        Ah I see Israel skipped this step because they don’t care about the hostages (and neither does Egypt for that matter)

    • 5BC2E7@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s not what the geneva convention says. The right of self defense takes precedence. So according to international law those locations become valid targets. They are not “supposed to keel over and die”, that’s not valuing their own lives.