• Kalkaline
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    471 year ago

    The Hamas attack on civilians does not justify the Israeli attack on civilians and vice versa. There is little comfort for the victims of these attacks when you say it was an accident as part of war.

    • @Szymon@lemmy.ca
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      91 year ago

      Both groups seem to be OK devolving to the lowest common denominator.

      I hope the citizens can find peace and love amongst the hateful and antiquated policies being fed into their heads from politicians and culture.

      • Very hard to shake out the hatred once you have been brought up with it. People are fed with hatred from their infancy, they breathe hatred every day, they dream of hearted every night. France and Germany did this for two generations and it brought WW1. Germany and Japan did it again in the 20s and 30s and it brought WW2. Hamas, Likoud, Hezbollah and Republicans are feeding the same hatred to their members.

  • @stifle867@programming.dev
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    141 year ago

    I’m sure the ICC is keeping a close eye on what transpires during this war. Perhaps, it’s too much to ask that the perpetrators of war crimes face the consequences of their decisions.

    • @Gork@lemm.ee
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      121 year ago

      I’ve noticed though that these international bodies aren’t really effective at handling these types of conflicts.

      Was anything done about Azerbaijan invading Armenia? Nope.

      League of Nations 2.0.

      • @stifle867@programming.dev
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        21 year ago

        Exactly, a lot of the time it just feels like the flavour of the moment. Something is better than nothing however and whataboutism isn’t a valid argument against, but can be used to point out hypocrisy.

    • Neuromancer
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      -121 year ago

      People use the word war crime incorrectly so often it has no meaning.

      Read the article, there was no war crime. They missed their target and this family was hit.

      People have lost how shitty war is for everyone. War is awful.

      People also need to learn the rules of war and stop saying everything is a war crime.

        • Neuromancer
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          -41 year ago

          Can you cite which one you think is a violation?

          Also cite the corresponding rule you think was violated ?

          Civilians getting killed is not an automatic violation of any rules.

        • Neuromancer
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          -41 year ago

          It isn’t.

          I think people should take some courses on war crimes. I have.

          Accidentally hitting the wrong building is not a war crime. Even if that building is marked with a Red Cross.

          People need to realize war is shit. It’s not a video game. People die, buildings get destroyed, and crying war crime is stupid.

          We should try to avoid wars whenever it’s possible.

            • Neuromancer
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              -21 year ago

              The conversation was around the Israelis. I am aware Hamas has committed war crimes. In the article I didn’t see where Israel committed a war crime.

              • @stifle867@programming.dev
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                01 year ago

                My original comment never explicitly called out Israel nor Hamas, and for good reason. You’re the one that claimed, and I quote, “read the article, there was no war crime”. The line I quoted was pulled directly from the article.

                I’m sure now you will be correcting your original claim, right?

                • Neuromancer
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                  -11 year ago

                  AH you’re being pedantic to be pedantic. We were talking about Israel and you wanted to pretend we were talking about Hamas.

                  No, I will not be adjusting anything as we were clearly talking about Israel.

          • Collision ResistanceOP
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            -11 year ago

            If you are naive enough to think that a bombing a “jam-packed refugee camp” was an honest mistake, then I have a bridge to sell you, going very very cheap.

            • Neuromancer
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              -21 year ago

              That is an easy way to say you never served in the military.

              While movies show the military as a well-oiled machine flawless in execution, in the real world, it is functional chaos.

              Mistakes happen.

                • Neuromancer
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                  -21 year ago

                  Actually it does.

                  Can you cite the section of the law violated?

              • Collision ResistanceOP
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                01 year ago

                Blowing up buildings and jam-packed refugee camps, knowing fully well that it’ll create mass civilian casualties is a war crime. And I’d rather take the word of experts rather than a nobody over this.

                Quoting from the article itself

                But human rights groups have previously said that Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on residential homes display a disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians and argued they may amount to war crimes.

                The article quotes a previous article Human Rights Watch: Israeli war crimes apparent in Gaza war

                Human Rights Watch on Tuesday accused the Israeli military of carrying out attacks that “apparently amount to war crimes” during an 11-day war in May against the Hamas militant group.

                The international human rights organization issued its conclusions after investigating three Israeli airstrikes that it said killed 62 Palestinian civilians. It said “there were no evident military targets in the vicinity” of the attacks.

                So yeah, brush it off as “Mistakes happen” somewhere else

                • Neuromancer
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                  -21 year ago

                  That isn’t a war crime.

                  Israel notified the area that war was starting, they told all civilians to flee. They use decision motions and notify the targets they will be hit.

                  Israel is going out of their way to avoid civilian loses and exceeds the standards of war.

                  Hamas is hiding in civilian areas which increases the chance of the civilian loses.

                  Israel isn’t at fault here. They’re trying to destroy legit military targets.

      • @zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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        -11 year ago

        Israel isn’t exactly operating with improvised explosives. Israel is one of the most well-funded militaries in the region and has enough Western guided munitions to fend off all their neighbours.

        Either Western munitions are absolute garbage or Israel is going “oopsie doopsie I totally didn’t see those civilians!”

        • Neuromancer
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          -11 year ago

          Western munitions are great but not perfect.

          Israel even designed special weapons just for the occupied lands.

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    21 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Israeli military fired the shot just a short distance from Nasser Abu Quta’s home in the southern Gaza Strip, a precautionary measure meant to allow people to evacuate before airstrikes.

    Abu Quta, 57, thought he and his extended family would be safe some hundred meters (yards) away from the house that was alerted to the pending strike.

    The airstrike in Rafah, a southern town on the border with Egypt, came as Israeli forces intensified their bombardment of targets in the Gaza Strip following a big, multi-front attack by Hamas militants Saturday that had killed over 700 people in Israel by Sunday night.

    It also points to its adversaries’ practice of embedding militants in civilian areas throughout the impoverished coastal enclave of 2.3 million people, which is under a under a severe land, air and sea blockade by Israel and Egypt.

    But human rights groups have previously said that Israel’s pattern of deadly attacks on residential homes display a disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians and argued they may amount to war crimes.

    Abu Quta was gripped by grief Sunday as he prepared for the rush of burials with his two dozen other surviving relatives, including wounded children and grandchildren.


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