• jonne
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    1 year ago

    A hospital (in operation) is never a valid target. Even if Hamas fighters are in there. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

    • capital@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You’re wrong.

      Legitimate military targets include: armed forces and persons who take part in the fighting; positions or installations occupied by armed forces as well as objectives that are directly contested in battle; military installations such as barracks, war ministries, munitions or fuel dumps, storage yards for vehicles, airfields, rocket launch ramps, and naval bases.

      https://web.archive.org/web/20090925191155/http://www.crimesofwar.org/thebook/legit-military-target.html

      Hamas put those people and babies in danger when they set up barracks and munitions there.

      You don’t get to just shoot shit out of a hospital and expect the opposing force to sit there with their thumb up their ass.

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        1 year ago

        I’ll remember this next time you’re in any kind of hostage situation. I’ll tell the cops to fire away, you’re obviously cool with it.

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            1 year ago

            And what do you suppose the doctors and immobile patients and anyone else stuck in the hospital do? Kindly ask Hamas to leave? They’re stuck, and for all intents and purposes are hostages of Hamas, as basically everyone in the Gaza strip has been for decades because they’re not allowed to leave.

          • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
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            1 year ago

            That’s true, that’s why IDF is so reckless with their bombing, completely ignore the safety of the hostage.