naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoHostages were holding white cloth on stick when Israeli forces shot them, army sayswww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square132fedilinkarrow-up1559arrow-down114
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minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·10 months agoFunny. I was a soldier in Iraq and I don’t remember shooting people for having the temerity to approach me with a white flag. Oh yeah that’s right we had a whole standard operating procedure to clear them and then get them to an IDP/Refugee camp. Hand waiving what is obviously a shoot first ROE is ridiculous. You can absolutely tell whose a civilian and refrain from shooting them.
Funny. I was a soldier in Iraq and I don’t remember shooting people for having the temerity to approach me with a white flag.
Oh yeah that’s right we had a whole standard operating procedure to clear them and then get them to an IDP/Refugee camp.
Hand waiving what is obviously a shoot first ROE is ridiculous. You can absolutely tell whose a civilian and refrain from shooting them.