An Israeli army tank killed Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah and injured six other journalists in Lebanon while they were filming cross-border shelling on Oct. 13, a Reuters investigation has found.
Edit: here’s another link in case it doesn’t work. https://www.reuters.com/graphics/ISRAEL-LEBANON/JOURNALIST/akveabxrzvr/
Well that’s… Comprehensive.
There’s not really any conclusion other than the IDF just committed a blatant war crime and any response less than the immediate arrest of those soldiers and their leadership will be seen as approval for war crimes from the government.
Not like that’s stopped the Israeli government before now! The most they ever argue on the issue is that they should be allowed to get away with it because something something “Hamas and Hezbollah did it first!” something something “you owe us because Holocaust (don’t ask how we treat the actual Holocaust survivor families that live here)” something something “any criticism is antisemitism!”
The other thing is it now really calls into question previous deaths of journalists in this invasion. Deaths Israel was able to shrug off as a dangerous job in a dangerous area. That’s why Reuters went so hard on bringing the receipts. They wanted to leave nowhere for them to turn to this time.
Keep in mind, Israel is doing this for revenge. If this was for defense, then they would improve their defenses.
The suffering is the point.
Even if you look at “revenge” it doesn’t make sense. This is like a psycho found a justification to commit massacres. The way videos shows IDF playing, dancing, laughing, and letting non military people bomb houses tells you this is not a revenge…
Exactly. Their behavior is just wanton violence and venting, there’s no actual purpose. The attack by Hamas was tragic, and Israel has every right to go after them, but they don’t have the right to drop bombs and shoot randomly in the general vicinity of where maybe Hamas could potentially be.
This isn’t what an operation to root out and destroy terrorists like like. This also isn’t what revenge looks like. This is killing oppressed people for no reason other than they can, apparently. Perhaps the IDF should spend more time defending Israel, as their name suggests, and not fuck around. They found out with the Hamas attack, and they’re just going right back to fucking around.
Sometimes the defensive position is going on the offensive. You can’t expect the army to just cower and wait to be hit, right?
Going on the offensive by killing international journalists 🤨
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Lol. Israel has the most sophisticated anti-missile defense system in the history of Earth. How much more defense do you think they need?
More defense to stop attacks like what happened on Oct 7th?
Maybe people on the ground who will stop terrorist attacks? It seriously looks like the only reason they have an army at all is to hurt Palestinians, and repelling actual attacks is something they strictly don’t do.
International humanitarian law bars attacks on journalists as those in the news media have the full scope of protection granted to civilians and cannot be considered military targets.
Well, we all know how the IOF feels about civilians, so…
Inb4 downpunxxx comments claiming Reuters is a terrorist organization.
But do they condemn Hamas?
Sarcasm, why have you forsaken us?
Two quips come to mind:
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Somehow Hamas has killed fewer journalists. Israel has yet to learn how to not point a gun and shoot wherever they’d like.
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If Israel’s defensive forces spent as much effort to protect Israel as they do to kill journalists, maybe they could’ve stopped the attack from Hamas in the first place.
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This worked for me, thank you!
weird, i’m getting an “Access Denied” page when i click on the link. anyone else?
Edit: It’s because it’s here.
Weird; I copied it directly from the website I was looking at. Thanks for finding the original site!
No worries. Thanks for bringing up the article!
same here
