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.

  • Argonne@lemmy.world
    1341·
    11 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·
        11 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·
          11 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·
        11 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·
        11 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·
          11 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·
          11 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.