given the population density, yes, it is. i'll go dig up the stuff i found when i get the chance here explaining it.do you have anything besides empty rhetoric?they make plenty of effort. did you not see the video where Hamas shoves a bunch of civilians in front of them as meatshields while continuing to shoot at the israelis and the israeli army doesn't just open fire?
there's a difference between "terrorist living in the house across the street" and "literally an entire tunnel network under your entire neighborhood that contains hundreds of terrorists and their stockpiles and infrastructure".
israel tries to get civilians to evacuate before bombing, remember.so what the forget do you think Israel should do when Hamas is firing rockets out of an apartment building and using schools as munitions stockpiles, wiseass?so let me get this straight, when hamas goes on rape, murder, and torture sprees and brags about it and makes it 2000% clear they're going to do it again every time they get anything remotely resembling an opportunity, you want Israel to NOT try to get rid of hamas? no. forget that.
also, you remember the laws of war specifically require both parties to participate, right? hamas doesn't get to fire rockets out of a hospital at israeli towns and then cry foul when the hospital gets hit to take out the rocket launches (in such a case, hitting the hospital firing rockets at you is not a war crime). the REASON the laws of war explicitly allow that kind of response is to discourage starfishs from using civilians as meatshields, since if using civilians as meatshields actually prevents your victims from striking back, then everyone will start doing it and it creates a race to the bottom.
everyone remember this too: the source on the number of civilian deaths is the hamas-run health ministry. they blame literally every single dead palestinian on "israeli aggression" regardless of actual cause of death, including the palestinians that hamas gunned down for trying to flee to escape being used as meatshields. they also claim all deaths are innocent civilians, when the number actually includes plenty of their militants.
i should also point out that israeli soldiers never raped anyone, and that alone means one side is quantitatively worse than the other, because there is absolutely NO CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER under which rape is acceptable even in the most hard-men-making-hard-decisions perspectives. it's the one thing for which there is literally 0 possible gray area.
population density & civilian death rate:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/09/civilian-toll-israeli-airstrikes-gaza-unprecedented-killing-study==> this haaretz-commissioned
study has been deemed credible, accepted by both palestinian sources, neutral human rights orgs, and israeli govt officials. it shows 61% civilian casualties, which is a higher rate than in any conflict. here's the catch: it counts every single 18-65 aged male as a combatant, so the real statistic is even higher. it also excludes deaths by secondary causes such as disease, malnourishment, which is an obvious repercussion of displacement and complete absence of medical facilities, clean water, and consistent healthy nutrition intake. among 10-20 thousand direct palestinian casualties, you can guess 70-95% are civilians. most of those dying from secondary causes will also be civilians, but this is thus far immeasurable as it was in iraq for a decade until it was proven that over a million civilians died on account of the sanctions regime. I dont know in what objective world this could be considered restrained, a higher rate of combatants were in concentration camps than palestinian morgues
"civilian evacuation"
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/6/how-israel-is-squeezing-1-8-million-palestinians-into-an-airport-sized-area==> funny way of putting displacement. likely permanent, given that netanyahu has
said that the PA won't be governing gaza, rather the zionist state, if they own it at the end of the 'war'. illegal settlements also go encouraged by the current government, among whom is ben gvir who personally led the settlement program in his early post-military political career, and obviously publicly finances and expands it. also the self-proclaimed fascist finance minister smotrich, who actively evaded israeli parliamentary regulations on settlement finances and just kept doing this until parliament allowed it to happen legally (israelis love to maintain the lie of rule of law). being evacuated from jaffa to jabalia to al shifa to khan younis to al-mawasi is a guaranteed way for civilians to just fall over and die, it is unsustainable under normal circumstances let alone with the complete lack of aid being allowed into gaza (and some aid even being [urlhttps://www.arabnews.com/node/2423496/media]torched[/url] by the idf)
"rockets fired out of hospitals"
==> this was never true, you're misremembering the other lie that israel put out about it, that a hamas bottle rocket blew up al shifa with the force of a jdam. they never found any conclusive evidence of weapons being held in al shifa, apart from a box full of rifles
located hidden behind an MRI machine which were tampered with
according to the bbc field correspondents who were shown
this bullstuff"including the palestinians that hamas gunned down for trying to flee to escape being used as meatshields"
==> there is no evidence of this happening, there is however the
hannibal doctrine and admissions from idf soldiers and officers plus israeli and palestinian eyewitnesses incl. your beloved kibbutz hostages (none of whom have been harmed!)
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/we-blew-israeli-houses-7-october-says-israeli-colonelhttps://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/just-fire-soldiers-testimony-raises-questions-whether-idf-shot-israelis-during-hamas-blitz-16008367https://thegrayzone.com/2023/11/25/israels-october-7-propaganda-tank-eyewitnesses/https://www.businessinsider.com/freed-israeli-captives-hamas-terrified-idf-airstrikes-would-kill-them-2023-12fake numbers health ministry
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/31/gaza-death-palestine-health-ministry/==> not only do the UNRWA, HRW, RSF, recognize and verify gaza health ministry releases, but even the US state department (no friend of hamas, obviously. handicap lol) uses these numbers internally because it has never been shown to be wrong. in some instances state dept even found that it was an underestimate of reality. when biden pulled his "well they're evil hamas numbers!" schtick he
privately apologized to a handful of palestinian families because US intelligence shows this data is accurate in entirely. of course he wasn't interested in doing it publicly because that would mean the "HAMAS RUN HEALTH MINISTRY" is more credible than the IDF. which is true.
israel soldier rape
https://www.mintpressnews.com/new-idf-chief-rabbi-says-soldiers-can-rape-arab-women-wartime-boost-morale/218362/==> chief IDF rabbi approves rape as a weapon. @phanto this is for you too lmao stop crying about evil hamas fighting the civilized democratic israel it's embarrassing.
even the idf released a statement about US state dept rape claims because it was getting so out of control stupid and they dont want so much attention on the topic of rapes, given what the idf has committed. israeli officials have also said on several occasions that they
literally just have no evidence anyone was raped by hamas on 7 oct. they've recently started showing "private viewing rooms" for select israel-sympathetic journalist to watch rape videos. interesting that they won't allow it to be released! perhaps one reason is because the chair of the rape investigation in the knesset has not once but twice
published photos of dead kurds alleged to be israeli civilian rape victims.
how curious that one of the most surveilled regions on the planet had no cameras in it to prove this rape! how interesting that they somehow only were able to produce 'footage' of this event 5 weeks after the fact, given how obviously plain it must be to prove it. rape also carries with it enormous forensic ramifications, and have closed all forensic investigations to 3rd parties while claiming corpses show evidence of loveual abuse. should be pretty easy to prove if it actually happened, sadly it simply did not!
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