• TWeaK
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    1 year ago

    I want to believe that Israel didn’t target a group of journalists. There’s a hell of a lot to give doubt to that theory, though.

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      Well, the IDF forces pulled BBC reporters out of their van clearly marked press and physically assaulted them. Source

      In this situation, the man killed had uploaded a photo of himself, which was geotagged, onto social media just before Isreal fired on their location (again, clearly marked press).

      With all of the other crimes against humanity committed by the IDF, I’m certainly suspicious that these may be intentional attacks on press. Not going to jump to any conclusions yet.

      And before biased crazy assholes decend into this thread and jump to conclusions about me, I don’t support Hamas or Isreal here; just the victimized innocent civilians on both sides.

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        Well, the IDF forces pulled BBC reporters out of their van clearly marked press and physically assaulted them.

        Same shit, different day.

        From the U.N. Human Rights Commission, 2019:

        The Commission found that Israeli Security Forces killed 183 of these protesters with live ammunition. Thirty-five of these fatalities were children, while three were clearly marked paramedics, and two were clearly marked journalists.

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        In this situation, the man killed had uploaded a photo of himself, which was geotagged, onto social media just before Isreal fired on their location (again, clearly marked press).

        Yeah there were a couple bits mentioned about geotagging in there. It reads like the CNN author really wanted to say that it most likely was targeted, but doesn’t have enough proof and has too much journalistic integrity to say it outright.

        And before biased crazy assholes decend into this thread and jump to conclusions about me, I don’t support Hamas or Isreal here; just the victimized innocent civilians on both sides.

        Don’t think you really have to worry about that now, lemmy.world is defederated from lemmygrad.ml. Although frankly it’s the hexbear users who have been the worst recently.