“Officials said that Israel and Egypt were prepared to let foreigners leave the Strip which is under heavy Israeli bombardment, but Hamas had refused.”

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    11 months ago

    It’s not like that stops Israel from butchering civilians anyway, so again how does this work?


    To downvoters: It’s a fact that Israel is killing civilians while trying to kill Hamas fighters. After killing nearly 8.5k civilians, they got maybe a couple of dozen of Hamas fighters “dead”, but how would they even be able to confirm it when they aren’t in Gaza? It’s a known indisputable fact that the so-called “human shield” used by Hamas has never stopped and will never stop Israel from shooting or bombing the civlian population.

    But again, it’s because “proximity shielding” is something countries made up so they can do genocide or accomplish whatever urban warfare goal while at the same time not giving a single fuck about the lives of civilians or hostages in that area.

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      11 months ago

      Their intent is that by their “martyring” Palestinian civilians, they’ll be able to use their deaths as PR against Israel.

      Yes, that is a cynical take. That’s how Hamas operates.

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        11 months ago

        I think there was no intent. I think Israel used proximity shielding like the US did as an excuse to kill civilians.

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          11 months ago

          why do you people think Israel wants to kill civilians? Do you really think the IDF is just hundreds of thousands of monsters who love killing? What is wrong with you people?

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            11 months ago

            Because it keeps doing so, documented by far too many human rights organizations and bodies already for nothing to have changed.