• Flying SquidM
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    610 months ago

    Per this article the bunkers were built for hospital medical use.

    I’m sure Israel would love people to think they built bunkers under a hospital for medical use.

    • MxM111
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      110 months ago

      Why else would they build them? This was before Hamas came to power, when Israel was occupying Gaza permanently.

      • Flying SquidM
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        010 months ago

        To store munitions? That’s what bunkers are for. Or do you think Israel wouldn’t store munitions in Gaza?

        • lurch (he/him)
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          310 months ago

          No, bunkers are actually for people to survive airstrikes and shelling. It even makes sense having one near a hospital, because sick people can’t go fast when the sirens go off. Usually responsible governments build bunkers for their citizens when there is a chance of war. Military sometimes has command bunkers, but they are not for and not near civillians.

          • Flying SquidM
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            110 months ago

            So Israel did not use bunkers to store weapons but Hamas did. Seems a little propagandistic to me.

            • lurch (he/him)
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              210 months ago

              idk I’m someone else. … but I think hamas is very stupid, so it appears plausible to me they used a perfectly good bunker to store wapons instead of sheltering people. Not sure if they really did tho.

            • @nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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              110 months ago

              Well the crux here is that it’s not a bunker but a basement. Of course the Israeli government likes the translation into ‘bunker’ a little bit better

        • MxM111
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          110 months ago

          Why would they do it under hospital? I understand the ugly logic of Hamas doing this, but Israel would not make any sense. There was no reporting of them doing that, ever.