• Mrkawfee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    None of that has been verified. Israelis have been consistently caught lying about human shields. Bombing refugee camps and failing to distinguish between civilians and combatants.

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      1 year ago

      You can choose not to believe it. But when there’s footage of actual captured terrorists saying explicitly everything that they’re being excused of, and when even the son of Hamas’ leader is saying those same things aswell, then I just find it hard to ignore all that evidence. Hamas are publicly evil, advocating to death to all Israelis civilians (shooting rockets/terror attacks indiscriminately), and doing everything they can to prevent the existence of the more peaceful PLO in Gaza (via armed means, see their coup as an example…). So it’s really not that hard to believe (given the evidence) that they’re also evil towards their own population, and hide under civilian infrastructure, again, after so many testimonies and intelligence reports.

      And say what you want about the IDF, but multiple professional army personnel have advocated for how they’re the most humane army in the world, doing the most out of any army in the world to make sure they don’t target civilians. Do civilians still die? Yes. Is it unavoidable as an act of war? Yes. Are the IDF the best at mitigating those civilian deaths in the world? Yes.

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        1 year ago

        You mean the Green Prince? That guy is a douchebag who will say anything for attention.

        The most humane army in the world has killed more children in 4 weeks than have died in war zones since 2020. The most humane army drops bombs in refugee camps killing hundreds of innocents to eliminate one combatant. It uses explosive weapons against hospitals and suffocates premature babies by denying supplies in violation of the Geneva convention.

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          “This guy with an absolutely more valid point of view doesn’t agree with me so he’s a douchebag” Sure. Ok. Whatever.

          And comparing this Gaza war with the rest of the world’s conflicts is just absurd. No war in recent times has been with so many civilians around legitimate military targets, and that makes this war impossible to win without casualties. Not to mention almost half of Gaza are children, so that data is also heavily skewed.

          That same “refugee camp” was heavily populated by Hamas terrorists, which were located there for decades, in concrete buildings. Calling it an innocent refugee camp for the poor and helpless is a loooong stretch after what’s been done in 7/10.

          Premature babies are evacuated by the IDF when they arrive at the hospital.

          And the geneva convention clearly states that deliberately fighting from civilian infrastructure is a violation of the geneva convention, and that once such a case has been made, that same infrastructure is a valid military target. No one cares when Hamas grossly and admittedly break the geneva convention because they’re the poor side.

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            1 year ago

            “Impossible to win”

            Yep that’s sums it up. There’s no military solution to what Israel is doing unless it involves ethnic cleansing and genocide, which based on the dehumanizing statements of Israel’s politicians, officers and religious extremists in addition to the war crimes it’s carrying out in Gaza by bombing hospitals, schools and refugee camps, is quite likely. There are millions of Palestinians without rights or self determination. Israel wants to keep them in ghettos forever.

            This deliberate destruction of urban areas by the Israeli army is policy as you probably already know.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahiya_doctrine?wprov=sfla1