White House says it has evidence Hamas using Al Shifa hospital to run military actions
White House says it has evidence Hamas using Al Shifa hospital to run military actions
I keep seeing both Israel and the US say they have evidence but neither of them seem to be able or willing to show such evidence.
That by itself should make every single person concerned, because if they actually had evidence, they would put it right out there for everyone to see. What do they gain by hiding it?
Good thing Biden is here to be the spokesperson for Israel for some reason. Show us the evidence or fuck off, and stop buying bullets to kill children while you're at it.
The article shows the admin literally saying this doesn't justify bombing it and they don't want to see firefights in it.
There's a video of a Hamas guy firing a rocket from the hospital. I doubt you'll watch it
Well yeah no ones going to watch a video you don't even link?
Did you go to the same spokesman orientation as Biden? Why not post the evidence if it's so compelling?
Link? Not that I doubt, but saying there's a video ≠ showing the video.
EDIT: Downvoted for asking evidence lol
EDIT2: Thanks @Hatsune_Miku@lemmy.world for the video link, that's how you do it @blahsay@lemmy.world instead of being obtuse and combative. Yes I did watch it, no thanks to you.
The one with a guy walking with an RPG near a different hospital?
Ok that's great. Where's the evidence that's going to convince me it's OK to bomb a hospital full of sick and wounded because of what Hamas is doing in their vicinity?
"To be clear, we do not support striking a hospital from the air. We do not want to see a firefight in a hospital where innocent people, helpless people, sick people are simply trying to get the medical care they deserve," he said.
I don't think they're trying to.
I don't think they care what you think
Ok, but this is a discussion forum.
Either show us or shut up. The White House also had evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. We all know how that turned out.
Cool, so they're gonna show us.. and the evidence for bombing refugee camps, and the those for bombing trucks bringing aids, they must have enough evidence to keep us busy for a couple of months with what Israel did the last month.. otherwise they can fuck right off.
hiii~ pretty sure no one is bombing aid trucks. do you has video?
Well then show us the evidence. And not videos of random calendars-I mean guard shift lists.
Even if that's true - which I doubt - it doesn't excuse bombing the hospital.
I DON'T CARE.
THEY COULD HAVE THE FUCKING GHOST OF OSAMA BIN LADEN IN THERE AND I WOULDN'T CARE!
IT'S A HOSPITAL.
Man, wish everyone had been this fired up over Ukraine.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE, Nov 14 (Reuters) - The White House on Tuesday said it had its own intelligence that Hamas was using Gaza's largest hospital Al Shifa to run its military operations, and probably to store weapons, saying those actions constituted a war crime.
"We have information that confirms that Hamas is using that particular hospital for a command and control mode" and probably to store weapons, national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters aboard Air Force One.
He said the United States had information that Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad were using some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including Al Shifa, to conceal or support their military operations and to hold hostages.
"We have been clear on multiple occasions - Hamas actions do not lessen Israel's responsibilities to protect civilians in Gaza, and this is something we're going to continue to have an active conversation with our counterparts about," he added.
Israeli forces have surrounded Gaza City's Al Shifa hospital, the biggest in the enclave, which they say sits atop an underground headquarters of Hamas militants.
Hamas, Gaza's ruling Islamist group, denies fighters are present and says 650 patients and 5,000-7,000 other civilians are trapped inside the hospital grounds, under constant fire from snipers and drones.
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thank you
Neither of those articles say that, and in fact your first article mentions Hamas firing on the hospital, not firing from.
That's not true. That's not what the article says.
Fatah gunmen began firing mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, drawing Hamas fire from inside the building, killing one Hamas and one Fatah fighter.
According to the article, Fatah was firing on the hospital and Hamas was firing from the hospital.
Did yall missed the video of them launching from the hospital?
If only there were some way to get individuals you want to capture or kill without also killing everyone around them. Oh well, maybe one day someone will invent a way to do that.
Seriously, y'all. How is "there's a bad guy in that hospital" somehow an acceptable justification for blowing up the hospital?!
Dear Israel: use your world renowned special forces and world renowned secret police to go get the assholes and disappear them to a prison cell or whatever without killing a bunch of innocent civilians!! For fuck's sake...
So? Don’t bomb babies. This isn’t hard
How do you suggest they take out Hamas otherwise? Just saying so doesn't solve the problem that simultaneously forces Palistinians under leadership they did not vote for and ensures future and sustained terror attacks directed against the civilian population of Israel as they've experienced the last 17 years.
Inaction is not a viable option anymore. Urban fighting favors the defender so sending in light infantry is suicide. Sending in light infantry supported by indirect fire is less suicide but worse for the civilians because it is slower and ensures the city is destroyed block by block a la Aleppo or Mosul.
I'm getting really tired of these reactionary responses by people who have never had to plan urban combat before. Literally every army on earth would do the same as Israel right now and it is overall legal.
How about they take meaningful action legitimize Palestinian existence within Israel, end the apartheid and work out a plan for restitution? That would evaporate any shreds of support for Hamas nearly overnight and make it significantly easier to locate, and bring the terrorists to justice. Oh, and they could try to not actively promote and fund Hamas. That method would also have the side benefit of a lot fewer dead babies.
Boots on the ground.
Soldiers should risk their lives to save children.
Or if that's too much to ask, maybe negotiate? Try to talk with the people they've been blockading since 2007. See how they can make gaza less of a shithole so the people there have better things to do than lash out at the people who keep them there.
It'll cost money, but Israel has plenty.
I'll take "it was legal at the time" for 1000, Alex
Ah yes because bombing thousands of innocent civilians has ALWAYS worked to make the opposing force more secure. It totally has not radicalized even more people and brought about more terrorists.
We have zero evidence of more terrorists being created and an ideology growing stronger from the US fucking about and indiscriminately bombing half the Middle East.
Why would this take Hamas out? Can ideas be murdered by dropping bombs on babies? Last time I checked the Nazis got destroyed. Are you telling me Nazis don't exist anymore?
I just had a great idea. Let’s just make genocide legal!
There's a disconnect between inevitable military reality and many people's views of the situation which I don't understand.
Hamas has to be embedded among the civilian population of Gaza or Israel would have already destroyed them with bombs and artillery. The rockets that Hamas has are purely a terror weapon and they would be completely ineffective in an artillery duel.
Israel has to use bombs and artillery anyway because, as you say, attacking light infantry would be torn apart against an entrenched enemy in an urban environment. Urban warfare always involves large numbers of civilians dead no matter who is fighting whom.
Israel must seek to minimize civilian casualties (and Hamas must not) because unless Iran and Hezbollah decide to get involved after all, the only way this war ends without the destruction of Hamas is if international pressure forces Israel to stop fighting. In this context, the narrative that Israel's policy is to deliberately target civilians isn't just false but nonsensical - such a policy would be the most direct way for them to lose the war!
By stopping their occupation of Gaza.
Then why did the UN condemn it as a war crime? And why are they using white phosphorus and deliberately leading civilians to bombing targets?
Let me put this in perspective for you, if there was a school with an armed gunman holding a bunch of children captive, do you think the best course of action is to bomb the entire school?
What’s ur preferred child to terrorist ratio? 3:1? 5:1? Right now I think it’s 10:1 in Gaza.
Every army on earth fuckin sucka my dick 🫡
Nuke it all before Crimas. WWJD?
for this and many other reasons we need autonomous robots with machine guns/grenade launchers/weapons platforms. those boston dynamics robots or something very similar. flood the streets with them - no boots on the ground, no worries. it's more granular than saturation bombing & platoons of killer robots just sounds badass!
Sure, mr commando that has planned 100 urban combat before.
What if they bomb you first? Is violence justified in response to violence?
My opinion is that pacifist opinions on violence should be held at the start of conflict and go no further when it comes to the ethics of force progression. It's just an opinion but don't expect too much support for your opinion when you are flatly against all war regardless of justification. Hitler loved folks like you.
Even better idea.