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‘Children were carrying other injured children.’ Witness describes aftermath of Israeli strike on Gaza refugee camp | CNN (www.cnn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

An Israeli strike targeting a Hamas commander in the densely populated Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza has left catastrophic damage and killed a large number of people, according to eyewitnesses and medics in the enclave.

Israel is a terrorist state, and they're so blood thirsty for Hamas commanders that they're bombing fucking refuge camps.

And they wonder what drives support for Hamas? Jk, no they don't. Israel knowsthey support Hamas because of Israel's actions, and Israel leans into it to give them excuses to marginalize and remove Palestinians from their land one way or another.

I don't support Hamas, but supporting Israel is unconcionable, and has been for years. But with so many things these days, the authorizations are going full mask off...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Despite the fact that Hamas hides amongst innocent civilians?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely. Punishing the civilians they're hiding amongst us a literal war crime (collective punishment), and I refuse to support a state that's trying to ethnicly cleanse a neighboring state so they can steal land.

Also, a commander being there is a fucking weak excuse to bomb a fucking refugee camp. No matter what you think of the war, it should be unconscionable to target a camp of people who's lives you've already destroyed, but considering the end goal of Israel, I'm not surprised they'd stoop that low.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Israel just bombed the camp again:

Israel-Hamas war live: Jabalia hit again a day after deadly Israeli attack

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Small quibble, it's not occupied Palestine. If it was occupied then there'd be no excuse for bombing the civilians. Besieged Palestine, oppressed Palestine, Gaza prison, all of those are fine.

During different conflicts the US military had a collateral policy, depending on how important the target was. Ideally you try to kill the target by themselves, but if there are non-combatants nearby, if it's a high value target you could get n + 1, if it's a very high value target maybe n + 2. This bombing is in the n plus hundreds range.

The cruelty is the point, it's not accidental, it's not collateral.... https://jewishcurrents.org/a-textbook-case-of-genocide