Hospitals have been caught in the crossfire during the Israel-Hamas war — both literally and in the clashing narratives of the conflict.

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

  • Mir@programming.dev
    4612·
    8 months ago

    Can you please reread what you just said? You’re saying it’s okay to kill children and innocent people in order to kill someone else you actually want to kill?

    • FakinUpCountryDegen@lemmy.world
      223·
      8 months ago

      Hamas must be completely eliminated, period. No cost is too great, for the good of the entire world and all its future children.

      Please explain your strategy which accomplishes that goal while not harming the human shields they’re using, and collect your Nobel Peace Prize.

      • theluckyone@lemmy.world
        9·
        8 months ago

        " Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

        Friedrich Nietzsche

      • Count042@lemmy.ml
        6·
        8 months ago

        Not yours. Israel isn’t doing a thing in Qatar.

        You’re either a liar or you believe in obvious lies.

    • Argonne@lemmy.world
      1341·
      8 months ago

      I think you need glasses or some mental help because that’s not what I said. I am saying Hamas is committing war crimes by using the hospital and forcing Israel into war crimes by attacking the hospital. There is no good guy here. If you reread that’s what I said

        • Argonne@lemmy.world
          527·
          8 months ago

          According to international law they are. If they shoot from a school, Israel has to shoot back. Do they are forcing their hand

          • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network
            103·
            8 months ago

            Could you cite that law for me? Because last I checked there is no such law forcing Isreal to shoot back, school or otherwise.

            Intentionally bombing civilians is a war crime. I don’t care how many of your “intended targets” you think you’re getting. If you are bombing civilian centers, like, oh let’s say a hospital for instance, then you are a war criminal, Full stop. There is nothing forcing Isreal to do that.

        • Threeme2189
          12·
          8 months ago

          Israel had to tear down one of its own police stations in Sderot becausesome Hamas terrorists were cooped up in there after attacking it on the 7th of October.

        • teichflamme
          21·
          8 months ago

          Yeah I guess they can just do nothing and die from the bombs and missiles that Hamas is firing from their civil headquarters

          • jimbo@lemmy.world
            2·
            8 months ago

            If only there was some wide range of alternatives between “bomb innocent people in hospitals” and “do nothing and die”…oh wait, there are.

          • 𝕽𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖙@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            If you read the article it outlines what international law says:

            Even if Israel succeeds in proving Shifa conceals a Hamas command center, the tenets of international law remain in place, said Jessica Wolfendale, expert in military ethics at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio.

            “It doesn’t license an instant attack,” she said. “Steps need to be taken to protect the innocent as much as possible.”

            If the harm to civilians is disproportionate to the military objective, the attack is illegal under international law.

            They need to not only provide proof beforehand but also take steps to mitigate innocent death and injury.