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Isn't it convenient how every time the US or Israel bombs civilians they automatically know they we're secretly terrorists the whole time?
Almost as if they were intentionally targeting terrorists...
Not saying they aren't lying, but this proves exactly nothing.
You're absolutely correct.
Another plausible scenario is they're killing potential targets, but they're not too picky about it. And if anybody asks they will confirm that there were actually terrorists there
Or terrorist sympathizers
Or people who hang out with terrorists
Or people who live near terrorists
Or people who promote narratives that terrorists take advantage of ...
We just don't know, we know the explosions happen, we know people are dying, the rest is propaganda from both directions
I think they must present their considerations/justifications to neutral third party, but there's danger of very potent intelligence being publicized. Imagine if IDF/US military had a high ranking informant among Hamas leadership, who then let them know that they plan to use ambulance movement to smuggle forces/equipment in and out of Gaza. If they publish it far and wide, that person is in grave danger, but more impactful - they won't be able to provide Intel anymore...
Ya it's like they're using the multiple billions of dollars we've invested in spy satellites and other technologies to track people against Hamas or something....
Oh so they just have a big list of every Hamas member and can vette them from name alone?
Ahmad Awad? Yeah, sorry bud, there's a couple hundred of you on the list.
Really shameful that the US is aiding and abetting genocide.
I’m sure Hamas would slaughter the Israelis if they got the chance—oh wait they are. Both sides of the coin is genocide.
They're both killing each other. America sides with its homie because they've been ride or die for a while. It's hood politics. Always will be.
Why not just let them through? Arrest them on the other side. They're terrorists right? Arresting them and giving them a trial shouldn't be an issue. They're vulnerable when they cross the border
Actually: why not let memebers of Hamas surrender themselves at the border? If it's a war, accepting voluntary POWs should be a net positive
Well, hopefully they instead just stay where they are, and being grievously wounded, die from them. Unfortunately some will probably survive to keep fighting.
Why not allow them to pass and then arrest them at the border? Surely better than bombing random buildings that may or may not have Hamas fighters inside.
Doing that would prompt Hamas to stop cooperating with allowing civilians to seek medical assistance outside of Gaza.
Literally every humanitarian thing Hamas permits it does so with the intention of funneling benefits to its own fighters and members.
It's the same problem as African warlords intercepting and sitting on medical aid intended for impoverished villagers.
A system which perfectly excluded Hamas cronies and fighters from receiving the benefits is one which Hamas will begin targeting for attack because they would rather Palestinians die than be able to get aid through means outside of Hamas' approval and exploitation
Egypt doesn't want to deal with that. That's actually why what were reticent at first to help and why neighboring Arab countries won't take refugees. Radical militants have snuck in with Palestinian refugees before and caused civil wars. They even killed the King of Jordan in what was eventually called Black September.
Why not arrest them then, if they have proof of being terrorists?
It's an active warzone.
I understand the skepticism, but this is where it's good to know your history. Radical militants have snuck in with Palestinian refugees before in the past. This has happened before.
It's why Egypt was so reticent to accept refugees. These radicals have snuck in and caused civil strife. They even killed the King of Jordan, in what's called Black September. This is why neighboring Arab countries aren't taking in refugees either.
Hamas is utterly evil.
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This explanation sounds too flimsy to believe. Seems more like a cover story after the fact for the insane bombing of hospitals and a caravan of ambulances within a clear pattern of overall genocide.
It's not like Hamas hasn't been caught using ambulances to smuggle military goods around before.
I can believe this happens without condoning just bombing the shit out of any group of ambulances because they might contain fighters.
Forgive me if I don't take everything the US says on the matter at face value.
It was a joint verification with Egypt
Also trying to smuggle in military supplies in humanitarian aid:
Meanwhile, two senior Israeli officials told The Times of Israel that Israeli inspectors earlier this week uncovered several oxygen concentrators meant to aerate the tunnels operated by terror organizations in Gaza.
“These weren’t for use in the hospitals, but below them. That’s why they were smuggled among boxes of cookies,” one of the senior Israeli officials said, adding that the entire truck in which the oxygen concentrators were found was barred from entering Gaza.
I mean, how do they know where they're meant to be used? If Gazans can't get oxygen concentrators legally they're very much right to smuggle them.
right to smuggle them
They were told by the US and the UN what types of aid will be allowed in. Smuggling only hurts Gaza from getting the aid it needs.
That's how you end up with a blockade and no more aid entering Gaza. Is that what you want for those people?
Fighters need medical treatment like anyone else when they get wounded, just saying ...
Nah. Terrorists who cut people's heads off can have medical treatment when they surrender.
Like you said later, the world isn't simple good and evil. If they don't surrender, they don't get treatment. The IDF would hardly treat a member of Hamas and Hamas would hardly treat a member of the IDF. A group treating civilians can tell members of both to fuck off.