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[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 43 points 8 months ago

Hey, look, that's white phosphorus, it's a war crime on the featured image! Yay normalization of barbarity UwU

[-] rektangel@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Is there an image available with a higher resolution? Because you can't really see what is being bombed in the picture. Using white phosphorous is only a war crime if it is used close to civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_phosphorus_munition#International_law

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 13 points 8 months ago

It's been replaced by a picture of Joe Biden, so I dunno. That said:

Israel has no credibility when it comes to war crimes against civilians.

[-] rektangel@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

It hasn't been replaced on my end, even with disabled caching. But yeah, this is probably a war crime. 😞 You'd think Israel would know better with their history.

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

From the nakba, to their initiation of the six day war and the resulting ethnic displacement of some 400k people, to their 80s invasion of Lebanon and the resulting ethnic cleansing at Sabra and Shatila, to their siege on gaza since 2008 targeting civilians by cutting off food and building materials and regular bombings, to their reaction to the peaceful march of return protests (snipers targeting the elderly, children, and the disabled), to the current ongoing well-documented genocide, what is it about the history of Israel that makes you think they should know better? They're literally built on war crimes and atrocities.

If you're talking about the holocaust, that's part of the history of Jewish people, not that of Israel. And many Jewish people do criticize Israel for its war crimes, precisely because of the holocaust. Israel is not the same as the Jewish people, and conflating the two is actually kind of antisemitic.

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[-] indomara@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This is the image. (I use imagus or hover zoom which enlarges images all over the web upon hover)

There do appear to be civilian buildings with lights on in the image.

Combatants fight in civilian areas regularly.

Are you trying to say they're targeting it at the combatants and therefore it is OK to use it in a civilian area?

Because the photo just above makes it pretty obvious that it isn't a weapon that can be used in a targeted fashion.

Yes, that’s legal under international humanitarian law. Being in a civilian area does not protect combatants from being targeted.

Proportionality applies, but that’s it. That means attacking combatants in a civilian area has to serve a military objective.

Is it not "use of air-delivered incendiary weapons against military targets in civilian areas" ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_Certain_Conventional_Weapons .

[-] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Could also just be thermite

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Yay normalization of barbarity!

[-] wpb@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

What a relief! , Here I was thinking it was an incendiary non-discriminate weapon that could horribly maim civilians if used in a densely populated city like beirut.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 8 months ago

I admit I did not believe both sides would agree when I read this was close yesterday.

[-] Jolan@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

Well you were basically right. The ceasefire lasted less than a day.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago
[-] xor 1 points 8 months ago

Got a source for this? Last I saw the ceasefire seems to still be holding, if tenuously

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 22 points 8 months ago

I understand that Lebanon has to look out for themselves and recover from the horrific terrorist pager attacks and civilian apartment building bombings of Israel, but this isn't good for Gaza. Now Israel is free to complete their genocide without opposition =( Everyone needs to participate in BDS. We need to pressure Israel in other ways now.

[-] FLX@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Hezbollah is not lebanon. Fuck them.

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

The pager attack killed children and Lebanese civilians, i guess fuck them too.

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

This is classic clanoizier mentality. "We will take your land, kill everyone ignoring any rules of war, that we set for the world, and you cannot fight back, and if you do you are a terrorist."

[-] FLX@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Please just talk to any Lebanon citizen, they will explain you better than me how wrong you are. Its a terrorist sect, not the resistance.

Ask all the Syrian and Lebanese children killed by Hezbollah how they’re doing.

[-] DeadWorldWalking@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Good people don't make excuses to kill children

[-] FLX@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

The pager attack was a terrorism act. That doesnt mean hezbollah members are not pieces of shit too

[-] answersplease77@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

A decision to instantly save money, save economies, save lives and people's blood, save the climate, and start talking like humans instead of luanching metals into each other. I hate wars and the people who profit from destruction of the planet and mass bloodsheding of civilians. Israel's war crimes fully sponsored, supported and funded by the US have shown their true image oppressing and genociding whom they illegally colonize.
Their hypocrasy made putin look good taking over Ukraine, and legitimized China's intent to take over Taiwan by so many levels. You don't have the right to defend injustice and what you colonize from others wether your name was Israel, Russia, or China. and everyone is sick of hearing about those Western values then seeing them on display as ethnic cleansing and genocide against oppressed stateless people in a ethnostate aparthied.

[-] iii@mander.xyz 7 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So the clusterfuck Hezbollah - Lebanese government will continue.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

How much of Lebanese land is Isreal occupying now?

[-] xor 1 points 8 months ago

The short answer is about the same as yesterday.

The ceasefire defines a 60 day window for them to gradually withdraw (at an agreed rate), while Hezbollah moves away to the north and the Lebanese military move into the south.

[-] anonymous111@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

What is in this thumbnail picture? I can't see it in the article.

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

I sort of recall that these hezbowlers and their friends eeeseeess pieces removed the thinking part from one of our comrades in the media. It's been a weird sort of war. Accordingly Israel has actually murdered thousands of children, women and other innocent people including members of the media. The war was started by an attack from the loosing party. Israel shot and killed a woman Journalist named Shirin Abu Akhala may 2022 this before the war really started. Maybe she knew something the rest of us didn't about the incoming war? Now the entire country has been erased apparently with a small portion of the population remaining. So now is the right time to stop? 😞🛑. I mean sure it should stop. But like we all thought it was time to stop right after it began and the reports started coming in about innocent people being murdered. Then came images of total destruction and murder by drone like remote extermination. Anyway, Trump is an idiot, so if a smart person didn't stop the war, maybe a total retard can?

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