Amid global criticism, Israel names 19 it says it killed in terror HQ at Gaza school
Amid global criticism, Israel names 19 it says it killed in terror HQ at Gaza school
The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City.
Well that makes up for the other 81 dead.
Oh wait, no it doesn't at all.
Whether there were any legitimate targets is entirely inconsequential. They're after a body count. Nothing more. They just wanna stack corpses.
As of now the Palestinian health authorities haven't released the names of those 81 that are allegedly dead. Usually they don't take long at all. In the meantime the IDF has released the 19 terrorists that totally weren't hiding inside a school and are now dead. I assume most of those 81 don't exist.
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Question
Does that mean that if Likud has a headquarters near some civilian installation, that it's okay to blow it up and the civilians along with it?
(Not that I necessarily believe that Hamas had a command center next to all of the children, but even if they did, I don't think that automatically means that blowing up all the children in the school becomes okay)
The Likud isn't a military organization, that's the IDF job. So.... No.
Neither were the churches. Or the hospitals. Or the UN facilities. Or the Schools. Or the desalination plant. Or the tents filled with refugees. Or the graves of Australian soldiers. Or Palestinian civilians. Or the greenhouses.
Do you understand?
That's...Hamas doctrine. They use civilians as human shields to avoid western attacks. Israel is notably different in their approach where they have basically decided to ignore human shield attempts in order to more effectively counter Hamas. Arguably, if it never works and Hamas fighters get killed anyway, Hamas might stop doing it because being amongst civilians means there are a lot of people who can inform on where Hamas militants are and what they're doing. I suspect most civilians there support Hamas though, so it probably won't change Hamas doctrine.
In Afghanistan by contrast, the US worked with various tribal elders who didn't support al-Qaeda. This information allowed US forces to counter human shield tactics in those areas and fighters increasingly moved out to the remote regions so civilians couldn't inform the US where they were.
The one time the UN looked in detail into this theory, it turned out it was crap. Hamas and civilians are sometimes next to each other just because they all live in Palestine, but the claimed thing where they would deliberately gather up some civilians and have them stand next to their installation, as if this would deter the Israelis or as if there was any shortage of non-artificial civilian casualties and so it was useful on any level to create some artificially, was it turned out a bunch of hooey.
The Israeli army has used Palestinian civilians as human shields, deliberately putting them in strategic places and in front of military targets, in an attempt to prevent attacks, fortify its forces in the Gaza Strip, facilitate its military operations and obstruct corresponding military operations. When conducting ground incursions and military attacks, the Israeli army purposefully used Palestinian civilians to guard its forces’ assembly points. It also made them step in front of military vehicles when it stormed homes and buildings it thought were booby-trapped.
Israel are a terrorist state.
You are gross because you repeat the same broken record. Hamas is using human shield, which is not true, and even then justifying murdering of children and deflecting the reality that the goal is a genocide of Palestinian youth !
How many HQs does hamas have?
If it's got walls and a roof it's a Hamas HQ.
How many schools, hospitals, and refugee camps are there in Gaza?
One less
Like Israel already bombed almost all schools and universities in Gaza.
You can more easily rule over the uneducated, and I guess that's the entire point.
The point is for Hamas terrorists to stop hiding amongst civilians. And hopefully to cease to exist altogether.
Everything can be Hamas if you just manifest it hard enough!
You are gross for justifying killing children with bombs instead of being a man and go there on ground to rescue your hostages.
Does someone have to spell out to you what an insurgency is? Or what asymmetric fighting is?
Is the IOF really so incompetent it has no access to the last 40 years of American imperialist strategy? Or can we drop the facade of logic and say this is about causing as much collateral damage/trauma as possible soas to cleanse Palestine of Palestinians.
The world knows a frontier war when we see one.
One of the names Israel listed as a militant was an 8-year-old boy, Shaheen Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu Sharif, according to the hospital records. Two boys on the morgue’s list, age 10 and 14, had names that suggested they were sons of a man Israel identified as a slain militant, although he was not listed among the hospital’s dead.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-mideast-latest-06-07-2024-cbc1aa84bc30b5f27dc1823155448f86
The name thing is so stupid. You could easily have 5 different people with the same exact name especially when there limited number of families in small area.
Remember the Al Shifa hospital Hamas bunker HQ? It's been almost a year since Israel took control of it and we still haven't seen one shred of evidence. That's how much credibility they have.