In blatant violation of international law, particularly international humanitarian law, the Israeli army has executed 13 children by direct shooting in Al-Shifa Medical Complex and its Gaza City environs. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity, and is part of the genocide that the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip having been experiencing for the past six months.

For over a week now, the Israeli army has been conducting systematic and horrifying military operations inside and around Al-Shifa Medical Complex. These crimes include extrajudicial executions and deliberate killings of Palestinian civilians. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor field team has received identical testimonies about the killings and executions of Palestinian children between the ages of four and 16.

Some of the fatal shootings occurred during an Israeli army siege while the victims’ families were inside their homes; others occurred when the victims attempted to escape via routes that the Israeli army had designated as “safe” after forcibly evacuating them from their homes and places of residence.

  • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Hamas are a bunch of assholes just like Bibi, and neither should be allowed to continue in power. The civilians caught in the crossfire are distinct from both groups, whether Isreali or Palestinian - and most of them are alright.

    I absolutely disapprove of Netanyahu - it isn’t necessary to approve of Hamas to do so and neither party is worthy of your defense.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      when the problem is that civilian settlements should not be targeted to begin with.

      I don’t, don’t get me wrong. But a lot of comparisons paint Hamas as an unsalvageable terrorist organization that should be wiped off the face of the Earth and the IDF as a “legitimate” army running rampant. You’ll see this in people saying Hamas should be dismantled while the IDF should be forced to respect international law, which is wrong. Both should be dismantled, and if anything I’d be more comfortable with Hamas continuing to exist than the IDF, since Hamas at least has done the absolute bare minimum to try to end the fighting before (see: 2008, 2012-2013, more 2013). What I want to say is that the IDF and its genocidal Apartheid state Israel is even less compatible with peace than Hamas. Either a one state solution or a complete restructuring of Israeli law and government are necessary here.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 months ago

        I think a one state solution is unreasonable because it’d necessarily lead to a large cultural minority and I simply don’t trust Isreali voters not to continue to oppress the Muslim population. It’s a fucking complicated situation and I wish the politics weren’t religiously framed but in the short term I’d be concerned about political retaliation against whoever the minority is.

        • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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          8 months ago

          I think a one state solution is unreasonable because it’d necessarily lead to a large cultural minority and I simply don’t trust Isreali voters not to continue to oppress the Muslim population.

          It’s not as big of a gap as you think. There are 7 million Palestinians in Palestine and Israel (not counting Jordan or Lebanon, let alone the rest of the world) compared to the same number of Jews in Israel. This is enough for either group to hold the other in check. Then we remember that not all Jews are right-wing, so in effect the people we don’t want running the government will be overwhelmingly a minority).

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Funny how all of Gaza’s government is responsible but only a single guy in the israeli government.

      • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 months ago

        In the statement above Netanyahu is shorthand for him, his ministers, and his supporting party… it’s quite an oversimplification but it’s probably the most comprehensible way of separating people who just want to live their lives from people who need to cultivate hate to retain power (and for some reason care about retaining power).

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I understand but deflects from the reality that if Netanyahu leaves this would never happen. The majority of israels population and their government fully support this Genocide.

          This is an israel problem not a Netanyahu problem.

          • xmunk@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            8 months ago

            That is not my impression but I’m not familiar with any hard evidence towards or against that statement - so it may be true (if you have polling evidence I’d appreciate it). Netanyahu did secure a comfortable win in the last election and it’s clear the hardline right wing parties have significant support.

            The issue is that, much like everywhere else - politics is complicated. Likud has been a dominant force and voters who appreciate investments into defense research and Bibi branded international outreach do exist without necessarily embracing the settlement policies.