• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    You’re presupposing that a way to kill him without killing civilians existed, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many civilians just happened to be around him. As long as he’s near civilians, Israel either has to avoid killing him or triggers international outrage, so of course he’s going to stay near civilians.

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        10 months ago

        No one said that they “asked for it”. The principle isn’t that civilians near a military target somehow deserve to die, but rather that it can be necessary to destroy a military target even if civilians happen to be near it. The responsibility to separate civilians and military targets (and the blame for not doing so) lies with the side whose military targets are near civilians, not with the side that attacks those targets.