• John Richard@lemmy.world
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    HRW may very well be right here, but if the only investigation the police does after a homicide is talk to some witnesses… but you know, never actually check for fingerprints, or in this case… analyze fragments from the rocket, then I’m not going to go all in and say that they’ve done much of a report. How convenient that people act like this is all the proof they need without even reading what they actually examined.

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    Now that Israel just openly declares it is bombing and invading hospitals, the fog of war bullshit really doesn’t matter anymore.

    Maybe this one hospital strike was a rocket. What about all the other ones?

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      All the other ones were literally illegally used by Hamas as bases of combat operations and storage of their weapons. Heroes don’t hide behind injured vulnerable people in hospitals or behind children in their schools. Hamas deserves to be destroyed.

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        All the other ones were literally illegally used by Hamas as bases of combat operations and storage of their weapons.

        According to Israel, the one doing the war crimes. 🙄

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              Only 20 deaths while bombing a location sheltering 20000.

              Bombing UN sponsored shelters for refugees

              These words you added ultimately mean nothing if they aren’t used for that purpose.

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            So, ignoring the only people on the ground telling us what is happening?

            Okay, so Israel has openly admitted to the crime of collective punishment through the blockade and indiscriminate bombing by claiming that anyone who voted for Hamas is a legitimate military target. Bombing hospitals, something else they now admit to, is a crime even if they are mixed military/civilian targets; a claim that Israel has still not proven, by the way. They’ve also made their motives very clear about forcing the population of Gaza into Egypt, though they claim this is merciful and humanitarian it is still ethnic cleansing and fits the crime of genocide.

            These are war crimes that Israel is telling the world it is committing that do not require us to rely on reporting from Palestinian journalists.

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              Israel has openly admitted to the crime of collective punishment through the blockade

              Have they? A blockade makes sense in the context of a war.

              indiscriminate bombing by claiming that anyone who voted for Hamas is a legitimate military target.

              These are likely two unrelated points. i.e. civilians are being killed in bombings, and some Israeli official has shared their idiotic opinion.

              Bombing hospitals, something else they now admit to, is a crime even if they are mixed military/civilian targets; a claim that Israel has still not proven, by the way.

              No it’s not? And yes, it hasn’t been proven to the point of “Hamas militants have been fighting back in hospital corridors”, the evidence has been there. Militants fighting right outside the hospital, militants taking hostages through the hospital, tunnels under the hospital etc.

              They’ve also made their motives very clear about forcing the population of Gaza into Egypt

              Makes sense, get the civilians out of the way so they can sweep the strip without killing them. How is that genocidal lol

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                Have they? A blockade makes sense in the context of a war.

                A blockade is a war on the entire population, yet Israel insists it is not at war with Gaza and is only at war with Hamas. That means they’re telling on themselves; they do not see a distinction between Gaza’s Palestinians and Hamas. They’ve also failed to prove that every element of their blockade has a clear military purpose, which is essential for avoiding war crimes.

                These are likely two unrelated points. i.e. civilians are being killed in bombings, and some Israeli official has shared their idiotic opinion.

                Not “some official” but multiple Israeli officials and low-level government agencies and think tanks. The highest escutcheons of power aren’t admitting any kind of connection, but I say there’s enough that’s come directly from Israel that we can suspect motive and should open a war crimes investigation at the very least.

                No it’s not? And yes, it hasn’t been proven

                Under international law, hospitals are presumed civilian unless proven otherwise. Israel didn’t prove anything before it attacked. Therefore: war crime.

                Also? In the case of a mixed civilian/military target, every effort must be made to preserve civilian life or it’s still a war crime. Instead they snipe nurses.

                Makes sense, get the civilians out of the way so they can sweep the strip without killing them. How is that genocidal lol

                Well I suppose it’s only genocidal if they aren’t allowed to come back and I suppose I can’t prove that Israel is planning to annex Gaza into Israel (even though it’s been stated multiple times from different sources within Israel’s government and institutions). I’ll retract, with the caveat that it’s ridiculous if you think they’d ever be allowed to go home.

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                  A blockade is a war on the entire population … do not see a distinction between Gaza’s Palestinians and Hamas

                  How do you distinguish a Hamas militant from a civilian?

                  essential for avoiding war crimes.

                  [citation needed]

                  say there’s enough that’s come directly from Israel that we can suspect motive and should open a war crimes investigation at the very least.

                  Fair enough. It’s not going to change anything in the short term, but that’s fair.

                  Israel didn’t prove anything before it attacked.

                  Didn’t prove anything to you. The general public doesn’t need to be privy to that information lol.

                  every effort must be made to preserve civilian life or it’s still a war crime.

                  Sounds like they did to me. I saw multiple emotionally manipulative posts about premature babies in the hospital when they were running out of power. Nothing about those premature babies being dead. Only about them being evacuated.

                  If the most fragile lives came out intact, that says enough really.

                  Instead they snipe nurses.

                  Really reaching for points there lol.

                  I do find it interesting the level of evidence you require from Israel vs the level of evidence required from Palestine. (No I’m not equating Palestine to Hamas. I’m referring to their collective media sources)

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      Yeah, so maybe you’re right, maybe I did steal money from your purse, push grandma down the stairs when she got in my way, left the milk out over night, shit in Dad’s shoes while high on meth, smoked crack in the alley, slapped all my cousins alphabetically, poured cocaine on the dog, but I swear, I didn’t smoke crack in my bedroom and I don’t like being accused of things I didn’t do!

      • pingveno@kbin.social
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        My understanding is this lie was used by Hamas to isolate Israel from Arab nations where much of the public was frankly horrified by the brutal violence Hamas had aimed specifically at civilians. So no, it wasn’t just “the one relatively inconsequential thing,” it is a lie that has had serious consequences.

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          Considering the fact that Israel is now bombing and invading every hospital, what difference does it make?

          If this was a lie then it was only a lie by a few weeks. Israel has fulfilled every accusation that Hamas has made.

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            The truth should matter, shouldn’t it? In both cases/ways/directions.

            I don’t understand why you would not want to know this truth? As it seems relevant too. And it does not take away from the horrors that are occurring in the Gaza strip one bit.

            I think the truth does matter, and it also shows that getting reporting right on anything happening in the chaos of war should be reported on properly and preferably with jumping to as little conclusions as possible and without taking any sides press releases as gospel.

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              The truth matters for the historical record, but it wasn’t a lie like the other poster said; it was at worst a false conclusion. Instead of treating this like a reasonable mistake, though, they’re cooking up conspiracy theories to assign malicious intent to what is pretty clearly just a result of the fog of war.

              If it was a mistake. I’m reserving judgement until there’s an actual forensic investigation and a truth-and-reconcilliation commission for Israel’s crimes.

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                I would argue the truth always matters not just in hindsight. The news making such a blunder in reporting will just makke it easier for future reports to be poopooh’ed away as “fake news”.

                In this case the news jumped on the bandwagon without knowing what was going on and that is just stupid, as this conflict has enough evidently disgusting things happening where there is less or no ambiguity in who did what.

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                  People do not need excuses to accuse something of being fake news. Also, there really weren’t a lot of reporters that actually reported this as an Israeli airstrike - they mostly just reported about the claims that were being made of an Israeli airstrike, but tried to stay neutral.

                  Though yes, some jumped to conclusions. Reasonable conclusions in my opinion, but that’s bad reporting.

                  But if truth matters, then we shouldn’t react to bad reporting with wild and speculative claims about people lying to make Israel look bad.

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          It’s also a large part of why people believe everything Hamas says (e.g. death tolls) while also refusing to believe anything Israel says.

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            The reason people believe Gazan death tolls is that they’re found to be reliable by almost every organization working in the region. And the reason most people refuse to believe what Israel says without confirmation is because they’ve been caught lying on multiple occasions, many times going as far as fabricating evidence (remember the Al-Shifa calendar)?

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              They’re “found reliable”, but not actually checked. Like, nobody actually checks Hamas’ numbers; they just “confirm” them.

  • BaroqueInMind@kbin.social
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    Hamas dick riders in here should all be on terrorist watch lists with Hamas. Why do your heroes kidnap and hold 4 year old girls and mothers as hostages? Is that how good guys are supposed to act?

    They are fucking terrorists and you supporting them by spreading their propaganda makes you complicit.

    I hope Israel kills every single last one of those Hamas cowards who are shooting rockets from inside hospitals and hiding amongst children in their schools.

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      Neither side is ‘good’ or remotely acts like it in this conflict/war. The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying, volunteers trying to keep people from dying of lack of food/water/warmth; and of course all the innocent civilians who are caught up in this clusterfuck.

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        The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying

        Naw, these people are bad too, it turns out. These people are willing to lie to everyone to preserve their access to Gaza and the flow of UN aid.

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            I think it’s bad when people who claim neutrality in a conflict are actually aiding one side of the conflict, and lying about it. Israel would be justified, in this situation, in treating them as spies.

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                Spies on the side of the guys who rape 13-year-old girls with knives aren’t the “good guys” in any fucking universe.

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                  Setting aside the veracity of that accusation, medical personnel can only be interpreted as on the side of civilians. It just happens that the interests of civilians (not dying) happen to go against the interests of Israel (killing civilians and taking their lands).

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        The only good guys around are the medics & doctors trying to keep people from dying

        Then why aren’t they demanding Hamas GTFO of their hospitals and schools? You’re so close.

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          Yeah, I wonder why they don’t demand that the GUYS WITH THE WEAPONS get the fuck out or else.

          And I’m not saying whether the population agrees or not with Hamas, I’m just saying that “GTFO” is not an option.

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    Who the hell cares, Israel has killed a whole lot more innocent people, including thousands of fucking children. The Israeli government is a bunch of genociders.

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        I’m sorry, do we have to wait for them to finish? We know their intentions, Israeli officials say it plainly, that they want to remove them all, make it uninhabitable where they live. That is the act of genocide, you piece of garbage.

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          We know their intentions, Israeli officials say it plainly

          I thought they only lied though. I guess you can always pick and choose which parts you believe.

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            They do lie, they lie all the time. Yet when they talk about their bloodthirst for genocide, dumb motherfuckers like you say, “oh haha that’s so funny they’re just kidding!” Y’all stupid shits of course only believe lies. Talk about picking and fuckin choosing, my god you hypocrite.

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          Well, according to al jazeera they dropped 6000 bombs - 4000 tonnes - from Oct 7 - Oct 12.

          As of 2nd Nov the number was 25000 tonnes. Let’s say that’s 25000 bombs.

          Pretty terrible death rate for that number considering the options available.

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      Don’t you bother to ask what happened to 1000 misfired rockets from Gaza?

      (1200 something confirmed misfires from IDF, and almost 800 something from a twitch streaming bots that were scraping al Jazeera cams etc, some independent new reports on these too). Let’s just say 200 rockets, don’t you wonder where they landed and what happened?

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        And the amount of rockets fired by anyone in Gaza is nothing compared to the sheer destruction Israel does.

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      Because the truth and facts matter when discussing moral responsibility. It doesn’t absolve Israel of other acts of war harming civilians. But this matters when discussing Hamas’s responsibility over the death of Gaza civilians.

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        You will all nitpick minor details and put those who are oppressed (the Palestinians) over hot fiery coals for being potentially wrong whilst never laying a single ounce of doubt or blame on Israel, the ones conducting a god damn ethnic cleansing. I’m sorry I don’t really care about arguing over this one specific instance of horror, (that which I never personally said was Israels fault by the way) when there are many thousands upon thousands of other instances that Israel boasts about murdering innocent people.

        Nitpick all you want, but all of you are just pathetic if this is the tiny sad ant hill you die on while real people die.

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    Yeah, I don’t believe it. How would they know what happened? Were they out there with Hamas firing rockets?

    That would make them… well, you know. Communists