• InFerNo@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Regardless of what reuters does or doesn’t say, what kind of explanation/justification is targetting “hamas camera”?

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      The supposed justification is that there was a camera used by Hamas to monitor IDF operations for military purposes. So “Hamas camera” would be used in the same capacity as “US spy satellite”.

      Leaving the veracity if that claim aside, attacking a hospital to destroy a camera being used to observe your forces operating dangerously close to a hospital is not great.

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        Also they “double tapped”. So after the initial strike they attacked the same spot again to kill the people trying to rescue wounded.

        It is a war crime tactic also popular with Russia in their attack on Ukraine.

        These kind of attacks are always geared at maximizing civilian casualties by killing rescuers. This does not make sense for destroying supposed equipment.

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          I mean yea kind of but I somehow feel like they haven’t yet said “hamas babies”. I don’t know, I am grasping at straws here trying to imagine how much lower they can go.