So you’re saying the extreme loss of civilian life is “not excessive”? Over 10,000 dead??
What’s excessive and what’s not is not clear. Hitting a hospital because there’s one Hamas member in it is certainly excessive, but if there’s a command post or even an entrenched fighting position in it that’s actively engaged in hostilities, that’s not excessive anymore. Military necessity and civilian harm have to be proportional.
As an example, Israel hasn’t used bunker busters or large JDAMs on hospitals even when there are suspected Hamas headquarters within / under them. That’s because it would be excessive to kill hundreds of people in the hospital for such a military objective. By contrast, they have destroyed whole civilian houses when there were Hamas installations within / underneath, because there are far fewer civilian casualties in such an attack.
Also, what are “military targets” to you?
Legitimate military targets are anything that is actively contributing to Hamas’ war effort, whether or not an attack on such a target is warranted depends on the collateral damage that would be caused.
There are so many other options if they just wanted to kill Hamas fighters
There are? Please enlighten me, I’m sure the Israeli General Staff would also like to know.
Maybe not to you. But when the Israeli government says they bomb a hospital because there’s a “suspected Hamas headquarters” in it, you blindly trust them. We have no reason to distrust the people saying they definitely did not just commit countless war crimes despite other countries saying they did /s
I’m sure the over 4,000 children that have died were suspected Hamas leaders too.
What’s excessive and what’s not is not clear. Hitting a hospital because there’s one Hamas member in it is certainly excessive, but if there’s a command post or even an entrenched fighting position in it that’s actively engaged in hostilities, that’s not excessive anymore. Military necessity and civilian harm have to be proportional.
What’s excessive and what’s not is not clear. Hitting a hospital because there’s one Hamas member in it is certainly excessive, but if there’s a command post or even an entrenched fighting position in it that’s actively engaged in hostilities, that’s not excessive anymore. Military necessity and civilian harm have to be proportional.
As an example, Israel hasn’t used bunker busters or large JDAMs on hospitals even when there are suspected Hamas headquarters within / under them. That’s because it would be excessive to kill hundreds of people in the hospital for such a military objective. By contrast, they have destroyed whole civilian houses when there were Hamas installations within / underneath, because there are far fewer civilian casualties in such an attack.
Legitimate military targets are anything that is actively contributing to Hamas’ war effort, whether or not an attack on such a target is warranted depends on the collateral damage that would be caused.
There are? Please enlighten me, I’m sure the Israeli General Staff would also like to know.
Maybe not to you. But when the Israeli government says they bomb a hospital because there’s a “suspected Hamas headquarters” in it, you blindly trust them. We have no reason to distrust the people saying they definitely did not just commit countless war crimes despite other countries saying they did /s
I’m sure the over 4,000 children that have died were suspected Hamas leaders too.
So why the fuck you simping already bud?