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The IDF and Shin Bet security agency on Saturday night named 19 Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror operatives that it said it killed in an airstrike Saturday morning on a Hamas and Islamic Jihad command room at the Taba’een school in Gaza City.

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[-] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That's...Hamas doctrine. They use civilians as human shields to avoid western attacks. Israel is notably different in their approach where they have basically decided to ignore human shield attempts in order to more effectively counter Hamas. Arguably, if it never works and Hamas fighters get killed anyway, Hamas might stop doing it because being amongst civilians means there are a lot of people who can inform on where Hamas militants are and what they're doing. I suspect most civilians there support Hamas though, so it probably won't change Hamas doctrine.

In Afghanistan by contrast, the US worked with various tribal elders who didn't support al-Qaeda. This information allowed US forces to counter human shield tactics in those areas and fighters increasingly moved out to the remote regions so civilians couldn't inform the US where they were.

[-] small44@lemmy.world 31 points 8 months ago

It's israel who's been using palestinian as humanshield with videos to prove it

[-] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

Well, Hamas kidnapped several hundred civilians from a music festival to use as hostages before Israel militarily invaded Gaza. Or is that fake news?

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 15 points 8 months ago

Two whole groups of people can be bad at the same time

Hamas is horrifying villains, and Israel’s government and military are horrifying villains. There is room for all

[-] small44@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

The west bank is illegally occupied that mean every single west banker arrested by israel was kidnapped. We also know how palestinian prisoners are treated.

[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Like that didn't have historical context. Genocide already occurring next to a damn music festival.

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

You can tell this guy would rape Palestinian prisoners if he could.

[-] mozz@mbin.grits.dev 19 points 8 months ago

The one time the UN looked in detail into this theory, it turned out it was crap. Hamas and civilians are sometimes next to each other just because they all live in Palestine, but the claimed thing where they would deliberately gather up some civilians and have them stand next to their installation, as if this would deter the Israelis or as if there was any shortage of non-artificial civilian casualties and so it was useful on any level to create some artificially, was it turned out a bunch of hooey.

[-] Deceptichum@quokk.au 12 points 8 months ago

The Israeli army has used Palestinian civilians as human shields, deliberately putting them in strategic places and in front of military targets, in an attempt to prevent attacks, fortify its forces in the Gaza Strip, facilitate its military operations and obstruct corresponding military operations. When conducting ground incursions and military attacks, the Israeli army purposefully used Palestinian civilians to guard its forces’ assembly points. It also made them step in front of military vehicles when it stormed homes and buildings it thought were booby-trapped.

https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/israeli-armys-use-palestinian-civilians-human-shields-has-been-documented-large-scale

Israel are a terrorist state.

[-] Doorbook@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You are gross because you repeat the same broken record. Hamas is using human shield, which is not true, and even then justifying murdering of children and deflecting the reality that the goal is a genocide of Palestinian youth !

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