For full context, Israel says 10,000 are Hamas soldiers. It’s super disingenuous for the Gaza health ministry (Hamas) to lump military and civilian deaths together like they do. And I know, you’re literally frothing at the mouth to inform me how all Israeli’s are liars and all Palestinians are angels. I’m not going to read any responses.
You did not read correctly:
Israel says it will establish 15 camp villages… Each with 25000 tents
It would be about 3 to a tent. I doubt any of this is real though unless Israel has half a million tents laying around.
I’m not disputing anything in this article. I’m criticizing the presentation of a source rated as “low credibility” with reasoning “Propaganda, Hate Group, Misinformation” on this community.
The reason we even have this community rule is so people don’t have to go in and individually pick apart articles to separate facts from propaganda. Websites that aren’t rated as credible can and should be ignored.
The community rules state that sources with a “low or very low” MBFC rating may be removed. This source has that rating, and so I’m pointing it out.
Mondoweiss.net? Where do you guys find these ridiculous websites?
MediaBias: QUESTIONABLE SOURCE
Reasoning: Propaganda, Hate Group, Misinformation
Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
This is simply not true when IHL is looked at as a whole.
Hospitals do receive special protections. As a rule a hospital can never be attacked unless it becomes co-opted for military purposes or represents a legitimate military objective. At that point, the hospital must be notified prior to attack if doing so is at all reasonable. Further, all proportionality calculations must still be made regarding collateral damage.
The hospital became a legitimate target when Hamas militants, under military orders, brought in hostages.
Notifying the hospital was clearly unreasonable, as that would allow Hamas to remove the hostages, the recovery of which was the primary military objective.
Proportionality considerations dictated what was a reasonable attack. Israel didn’t bomb the building into dust - they staged a controlled siege (to prevent the hostages from being moved) followed by a methodical taking of the facility.
Nothing about this was unreasonable or illegal given the full context.
I do, but in the few last rounds of talks Hamas has consistently demanded full Israeli withdrawal as a condition to release any hostages, and a permanent peace prior to releasing all hostages.
Since Israel is obviously not going to agree to withdraw leaving Hamas to reassert full control, and further would never make a peace treaty with a terrorist organization holding their citizens hostage, I don’t see any path forward here.
4 is covered under “shit I never said or contested”
For 3 you’re just going to have to accept that you can’t always personally view US intelligence information.
I didn’t say anything about civilian death rates mate. Pretty weird to accuse me of something that I’ve never said and is on-its-face absurd.
Regarding point 1, Israel obviously has the right to try to recover its citizens, taken hostage by a foreign military force, wherever they have evidence of them being. A hostage site is clearly a valid military target under IHL.
A couple of points here.
Regarding Al-Shifa hospital, there is video of Hamas taking some hostages inside, and widespread reporting of Hamas previously using part of the facility for interrogation/torture of civilians. That, in conjunction with the tunnel evidence, makes it a reasonable target for Israel to take control of (i.e. not a war crime). Personally I doubt the tunnel constitutes a command center. A method for discreetly bringing in captives makes more sense.
Ok so that was where you should have picked a step in my reasoning that you disagree with and explained why.
… I’m stating my reasoning for disagreeing with the article. What I wrote is my opinion, which isn’t something an article can contradict.
I didn’t state any opinion at all. I only discussed what seems politically possible right now.
Hamas will never accept a ceasefire without full Israeli withdrawal, and Israel will never accept a ceasefire that leaves Hamas in power. There is no middle ground here acceptable to both sides. It’s not going to happen until the situation substantially changes.
Yes, if a dog attacks you can shoot it. That’s true pretty much everywhere.
Why in the fuck is this considered world news?
Basic reading comprehension mate. The sign is wrong regardless of whether a Jewish customer stole anything. It isn’t a point worth fighting over.
the shop would no longer rent gear such as sleds, skis and snowshoes to “our Jewish brothers” after a series of “very annoying incidents” — including the theft of a sled.
This is a ski shop that posted a sign saying they won’t do business with Jews, due to a Jewish person stealing a sled.
Replace ‘Jew’ with any other ethnic group here and it’s clearly not okay, but I’m sure other commenters will make an exception.
The extraverts had the tables turned on them in 2020 and have been itchy for a captive audience ever since. It’s a drug fix for these people, nothing more. I’ve skipped every cross country in-person team building gibberish since 2020 and will continue to do so.