Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in the clashing narratives of the conflict.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

  • whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world
    50·
    1 year ago

    Not sure why you’re being downvoted… Israel an ethnostate, and what we’re seeing here are the early stages of a genocide. Look at any other ethnic cleansing in history, and you’ll easily see the parallels.

    • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
      33·
      1 year ago

      Well, I’m not sure early stages fits, that’s calling for a group to removed and Israel has been bombing water wells, while monopolizing all water supplies and providing only dangerously! small amounts of unclean water. Without question, this has caused unneeded deaths. Simmiliarly for electricity and food supplies.

      It’s tragically been a genocide for a long time.

      • whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world
        14·
        1 year ago

        You know, I was trying to tread lightly, lest the Zionist apologists show up to try and redefine “genocide”.

        But the reality is this:

        • Tens of thousands of civilians are being murdered (shot, bombed, starved, water supply poisoned) by Israel’s military.
        • Israel is an ethnostate which believes that their race makes them god’s chosen people.
        • One of the Israeli government cabinet members has declared that the Palestinians in Gaza must be eradicated, and that he would drop a nuclear bomb on Gaze if he could.

        When you use the U.N.’s definition of genocide (“acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”), the picture is pretty clear.

        • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          Absolutely. I hope I didn’t sound pedantic or talking down, my intent was just to have more details higher in the thread in case some of those zionist shit poster tolls take over the bottom. You’re 100% right on every point and I wish you weren’t.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      War does not automatically equate to being a genocide just because people due. Otherwise, every war in history would.be genocide.

      There are Arabs & Palestinians that serve in the IDF too and have killed Palestinians. There are other Arabs in Jordan and Syria who have also gone to war against Palestine.

      You are using incindiary rhetoric to win an online argument, but your description doesn’t fit the facts.

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        You’re literally using the same arguments every genocidal government has used to justify their genocides in history.