The Israel Defense Forces releases surveillance camera footage from Shifa Hospital showing Hamas terrorists bringing a Nepali and Thai citizen who were abducted from Israel on October 7 to the medical center.

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      Isn’t this just bringing in wounded hostages for treatment? What do you expect hostage takers to do with wounded hostages exactly?

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          71 year ago

          Lol, nobody’s saying they’re a proper government. Everyone agrees they’re terrorists. All I’m saying is that a hospital treating hostages doesn’t make it part of a terrorist entreprise.

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              From the article:

              One of the hostages is visibly wounded in his arm and is brought on a hospital bed, while the second is forcefully dragged into the hospital

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              In an evening press conference, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari says the two wounded hostages were later taken by Hamas to hideouts, and that the Red Cross was unable to visit them. He says their locations are currently unknown.

              So, you’re wrong about both assertions. The IDF themselves say they were both wounded, and that after treatment they were moved to a different location. The source also doesn’t indicate they’re both dead now, you’re just making shit up.

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                  91 year ago

                  Hamas are not the good guys. That doesn’t make the hospital the bad guys, and it doesn’t make everyone in Gaza complicit. Your inability to separate different actors in this scenario is limiting your perspective and objectivity.

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                  Nobody’s calling Hamas the good guys. We’re pushing back on the narrative that the hospital itself is somehow involved and thus exempt from the normal protections in war.

                  Hospitals will treat anyone that comes in by default, and in the case of a Gazan hospital, what choice would they even have anyway? You can’t call the authorities if Hamas are the (de facto) authorities. You treat the hostage and get them to GTFO as fast as possible before you get bombed.

                  You are falling for the IDF narrative that says all Palestinians are Hamas, as if they have any kind of choice in the matter.

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                  I some mob enforcer shot some guy “to teach him a lesson” and then brough him to a Hospital so that he wouldn’t die, would that make the Hospital a “Mob HQ” and justify a military attack on it that killed innocents being treated and working there?!

                  There is no such thing as Guilt By Association except in the “they’re all the same” of racist-logic, so one wonders how exactly anybody who is not a racist could ever go from “IDF video of Hamas bringing hostages for treatment in a Hospital” to “This justifies the IDF’s military attack on that hospital and associated civilian deaths”.

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      61 year ago

      No one has been making that claim. So the only person who could lay it to rest is you. Since you’re the one claiming that. Everyone knows Hamas has been using civilian shields. We’re just upset about Israel committing genocide and using that as an excuse.

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        41 year ago

        Isn’t it weird how nobody ever says that Hamas is committing genocide when they don’t give a fuck about where their rockets explode in Gaza, when they’re murdering Palestinians who are trying to evacuate, when they’re using Palestinian civilians as human shields, when they’re firing rockets from civilian Palestinian infrastructure, deliberately making it a military target?

        Does it just not count when Hamas murders Palestinians, or how does that work?

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          71 year ago

          Genocide is a focused/targeted slaying of specific groups. Hamas is murderous careless and wanton. It’s not genocide. It’s not good. But it’s not genocide. Israel however, is largely targeting and slaughtering large portions of innocent Palestinians who’ve done nothing to them. Simply because Israel wants the land and wants to clear the people. Who’ve lived there off of it. And are simply using the terrorist attack as an excuse That’s genocide.

          I mean everyone hates Mondays. Let’s be real here. But Monday isn’t a terrorist neither is Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday or Saturday.

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          51 year ago

          Two wrongs don’t make a right. Criticizing Israeli actions is not implicit approval of Hamas actions.

          The challenge here is that Hamas are generally considered to be the bad guys. You expect the bad guys to do evil shit.

          Israel is supposed to be the good guys in this scenario. Being the good guys means you are not expected to do evil shit, and are supposed to do the right thing even if it is harder. Except right now they are doing orders more magnitude evil shit than the bad guys. I don’t think it is unfair to call them out on that.

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            They’re an Appartheid state (with explicit legislation that creates special citizenship classes by religion, with the Jewish Iraeli Citizenship having more rights than the Arab Israeli Citizenship) governed by an extreme rightwing government displaying most of the traits of Fascism - Militarism, Ultra-nationalism, reckless use if violence, even rabid racism against an etnic group they describe as “animals” - and the worst kind of Fascism at that, the could calculating hate-filled Germanic shit, not the “mild” version of places like Italy.

            If Israel were ever the good guys (maybe at some point after the architects of Nakba left power and before they murdered Yitzhak Rabin) they haven’t been it for a long time.

            Buy yeah, if you unskeptically consume the propaganda about Israel from the last couple of decades that portrays them as a western-like white people with humanitarian values, it’s natural you think it’s a country of “good guys”.

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        Y’all still haven’t read up on the Geneva convention hu.

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          61 year ago

          You may be shocked to find out that the Geneva Convention is not the whole extent of most people’s moral beliefs.

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            What do your moral beliefs tell you about how to conduct a war with zero civilian casualties?

            We’d all like to know that would work.

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              61 year ago

              There’s a lot of fucking room between “zero civilian casualties” and the deliberat massacre that’s happening now. Fuck you and your false dichotomy.

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                11 year ago

                Ahh ok. Tons of military strategists on lemmy lately. Who knew it was such a prevalent profession.

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              41 year ago

              I get it. I’m the Pope. It ain’t easy. But you should know kiddo. Two wrongs don’t make a right. My buddy J.C. even says so. And I was unaware one could not be Zionist in the US. Solid logic there.

              What hamas did was horrible. What Israel has done since makes that pale in comparison. Well that’s not really fair. What Israel did before still made it pale in comparison. If you don’t like people calling you a Zionist stop carying their water. There are no good guys involved in this conflict. Unfortunately just collateral of innocent citizens. Both Israeli and mostly Palestinian. Israel however, is the one with the power to change all this.

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                You can call me whatever. It literally means nothing to me lol.

                Civilian deaths fucking suck but when the group you’re fighting uses them as shields, the numbers are gonna be high.

                Edit: just looked up the term

                a political movement that was originally begun in order to establish an independent state for Jewish people, and now supports the development and protection of the state of Israel

                https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/zionism

                Huh. Looks like I’m a Zionist.

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                  41 year ago

                  It’s great and all how you can never actually address what was said. Civilian deaths could be much less while still addressing the Hamas problem. But I’m glad that you have accepted the definition as a genocidal ethno nationalist. That’s what zionists are these days bubbala. And with how hard you are defending their genocidal extermination. Honestly I got to say it’s very believable on you. So you should really do yourself a mitzvah and read up on things a little better.

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                    11 year ago

                    I literally posted the definition that I’m identifying with but I guess you’re welcome to read into it. It won’t be representative of reality but I can’t stop you.

                    Your comments are a little hard to read though so I’m tiring of this particular thread.