Hundreds of thousands march in London, demanding end to Gaza genocide

Peter Link@lemmy.ml · 3 months ago

Hundreds of thousands march in London, demanding end to Gaza genocide

Jackthelad@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Israel is the only country in the world that isn’t allowed to bomb its enemies.

If any other country does it, it’s to protect themselves. When Israel does it, it’s “genocide”.

Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 months ago

It is allowed to bomb their enemies, and their families and their children, and their schools and hospitals.

They just all categorize them as enemy, which is the problem.

Krono@lemmy.today · 3 months ago

Summing up the situation as “bombing their enemies” only shows your ignorance or bias.

They are running a starvation campaign. They created a million refugees, then they carpet bomb the refugee camps. They destroyed almost all of the hospitals, schools, and places of worship in Gaza. They rape Palestinian prisoners, and when the rapist was going to be prosecuted, the populace protested and made him a social media star. The civilian leadership has called for the starvation and extermination of the entire population on hundreds of occasions. I could go on and on, the list of Israeli war crimes in the past year is horrendously long.

And now they aren’t just attacking Gaza, they are invading Lebanon as well, doing the same war crimes.

FelixCress@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Israel is the only country in the world that isn’t allowed to bomb its enemies.

These with crayons in their school bags?

Jackthelad@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Why is Hamas never blamed for using human shields?

Keeponstalin@lemmy.world · 2 months ago

Israel justifies nearly every attack on civilians that way

Human Shields

Hamas:

Intentionally utilizing the presence of civilians or other protected persons to render certain areas immune from military attack is prohibited under international law. Amnesty International was not able to establish whether or not the fighters’ presence in the camps was intended to shield themselves from military attacks. However, under international humanitarian law, even if one party uses “human shields”, or is otherwise unlawfully endangering civilians, this does not absolve the opposing party from complying with its obligations to distinguish between military objectives and civilians or civilian objects, to refrain from carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, and to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians and civilian objects.

Israel:

Additionally, there is extensive independent verification of Israel using Palestinians as Human Shields:

IDF uses Human Shields,
Including Children (2013 Report)
Israel “Systematically” Uses Gaza Children as Human Shields, Rights Group Finds 2024
Breaking The Silence - Testimonies from IDF Veterans

Deliberate Attacks on Civilians

Israel deliberately targets civilian areas. From in general with the Dahiya Doctrine to multiple systems deployed in Gaza to do so:

Israel also targets Israeli Soldiers and Civilians to prevent them being leveraged as hostages, known as the Hannibal Directive. Which was also used on Oct 7th.