Poll: Do you believe Israel is committing genocide against the population of Gaza?

[Happy Hoosier]

99. You may not care, but there is a reason the laws of war DO care.

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Because it should be freaking obvious that combatants operating from civilian structures are seeking to do two things:

1) Avoid getting attacked.

or, barring that

2) That a lot of civilians are killed when they are attacked.

Hamas is deliberately putting these civilians in danger for their own protection and propaganda.

To be clear the law of war is subjective here. It is not a war crimr to target a civilian structure that is being used by enemy combatants if all reasonable precautions are taken to avoid unnecessary collateral damage.... ya know, things like using precision munitions. Providing wanring to civilians, things like that.

It's not a war crime just because it makes YOU mad.

OTOH, kidnapping and murdering civilian hostages is definitely a war crime...