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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.
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Even if true, does it justify bombing and killing everyone in that hospital?
That’s the thing
Hamas is awful for putting military installations near civilian infrastructure, and the Israeli military is awful for bombing indiscriminately despite their advanced military tech and resources.
We don’t need to pick one or the other
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If only there were some middle ground between “doing nothing” and “leveling the entire building from orbit”. Perhaps something like sending in ground troops who can separate the terrorists from 6yo children.
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So send in iserali troops that cam get killed while trying to clear the tunnels and who could also in the heat of battle shoot innocent people ?
What dumb logic is that. You are just introducing more people that can die into the situation.
That’s the cost of claiming to care about innocent life.
Well put.on your fatigues and go raid the hospital big boy. It’s really easy to be concerned about innocent lives when you don’t have to put yours on the line.
I’ll keep the innocent soldiers safe and just bomb hamas
Love how soldiers are always innocent and victims are always terrorists.
Take precautions and don’t indiscriminately bomb civilian population creating the next generation of people that will fight you.
You know what would keep you from killing civilians?
A ceasefire.
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Yes, those ceasefires! The ones that let non-combatants escape, aid to reach the dead and dying, humanitarian efforts to make headway even if only for a short time.
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~40k Hamas fighters in Gaza can’t hold the other 99.9% non combatants population hostage. This is an excuse to lump all Palestinians in with the Hamas fighters.
Flour was allowed in to feed the people then one of the only remaining bakeries in Gaza was bombed. What is that but an attempt to starve the people of Gaza. Again maybe 1 in 1000 people is Hamas so 999 people have to starve to cut off Hamas?
How about Westbank, where there is no Hamas. Why are they bombing Palestinians in the Westbank if this is all about Hamas and taking them out?
What should Hamas do? Put their bases out in the open and announce where they are? They would be blown up within minutes.
So pragmatism for palestine but israel must be held accountable to the highest standards?? This is why I cannot understand hamas apologists.
Yeah, that’d work for me.
By the rules of war? Yes, absolutely. You could even make an argument that the Geneva Convention would encourage the bombing of this hospital as a way to deter future actors from attempting a similar war crime.
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Are you copying and pasting the same reply as someone else? I swear I keep seeing this exact reply on anything to do with Israel / Palestine, but it doesn’t show up in your post history (as far back as I could be bothered going anyway).
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No, it’s being said a lot because its both deplorable and true. And every time someone learns about it for the first time they assume that no self respecting person could know about Hamas’ crimes and still support Hamas.
or PIJ’s own rockets which have misfired
Still hasn’t been verifiably proven by either Hamas nor the IDF what actually happened. Even Al jazeera’s own video was contradictory to what the IDF claimed because it showed the missile launching from Israel which makes no sense.
And then a Rabbi gets stabbed to death outside her home in Detroit.
Unrelated and most likely not a targeted murder according to the police
UNHRC have found this to be true
Not saying this isn’t true but source plz? I can’t find anything talking about this mostly because right now they are focusing on the humanitarian crisis, so its all the new articles.
This looks so fake, holy shit. Apparently Hamas has a red barrel room straight out of every video game.
Not only is it not fake, it’s been known for some time, and Amnesty did a whole piece of how Hamas tortures dissidents there.
I don’t see anything there about Hamas punkers looking like an graphic design intern, who plays an excessive amount of FPS games, quickly threw the design together in Garry’s Mod.
I’m not sure how you think this is criticism.
Are you saying you’d be happier if the IDF released a Blizzard Cinematic of the tunnels? Why?
I’d be happier if it doesn’t look obviously faked. Like you have the gun wall room with rockets littering the floor, then you have the terrorist video room and the video game red barrel room. All in a weird concrete structure. Like it looks like they just got some random to throw it together, it’s Russian propaganda levels of lazy.
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It’s a representation of a Garry’s Mod level. I don’t doubt Hamas has bases in tunnels but the base depicted looks so obviously faked, the rooms in it look straight out of a video game. It’s like the Israeli government told a video game addicted intern to make up a Hamas bases in Garry’s Mod to send to the media.
“This is an illustration of Shifa hospital and the underground facilities. I want to repeat, this is only an illustration. We will not share here the true material that we have in our hands. This is only an illustration.” - The dude doing the press conference.
Yea, it’s an illustration of nothing real. Like Hamas doesn’t even have cement, what’s depicted in the video is as close to real life as if they had just shown a Doom level. What is the point of illustrating your imagination of what’s there?
…you think Gaza doesn’t have cement?
The import of cement is heavily restricted by Israel since like 20 years ago, yea.
Um Randy
https://handymantips.org/make-homemade-concrete/
Making cement is not hard. Find some sea shells or limestone and crush them up, add heat.
Do you need me to come fix your stove hinge ?
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.
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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.
From what I understand, putting militarily installations in places of worship, schools, hospitals and similar, is a war crime even in non-international conflicts.
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I’m obviously not a lawyer so take this with a heap of salt but Article 8, 2. e) seems to explicitly specify war crimes for non-international conflicts:
Other serious violations of the laws and customs applicable in armed conflicts not of an international character, within the established framework of international law, namely, any of the following acts
That’s just saying they can hold a trial in absentia for non members, it’s not binding but it’s shows international stance.
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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)
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.
The right of self defense takes precedence
It stopped being self defense a while ago bud
Oh, well if IDF reveals it, it’s gotta be true . . .
What do you mean?
It’s not like they could have faked the audio recording of two anonymous people saying it’s definitely happening…
I mean sure, if they wanted to they could send in ground forces and capture the hospital they could prove that infrastructure exists, but why do that when they can just collapse the hospital and kill all the patients too?
Sending ground forces straight into the center of Gaza isn’t as simple as you make it seem. The place is booby trapped and has a labyrinth of tunnels full of armed terrorists just waiting to kill Israeli soldiers in the name of Allah or some shit.
They can’t just stroll in and take a look under the hospital.
I don’t doubt that they put them in and around hospitals, schools, mosques, and churches to try to increase civilian casualties and therefore outrage when Israel goes and strikes their enemies.
hey that means we should just bomb it down!
No this is why they’re doing the ground invasion.
Although they did collapse some tunnels with “sponge bombs” that have expanding foam rather than explosives.
Have they already used the sponge bomb? Or not yet?
This certainly has the tone of disinformation released by a state intelligence agency. Justification after the fact for brutal hospital bombings.
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There are, in fact, multiple hospitals in Gaza. This logic is not particularly challenging.
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Not the same hospital
I wonder how many people understand what this was.
points at hospital “It’s coming right for us!”
inb4 WMDs in Gaza /s
So this is a hospital IDF is admitting they bombed?
This picture reminds me of something…
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Oh, right, lemmy doesn’t show images from Kbin. Here’s a link
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