No, you misunderstand the law.
Even if Hamas were using the citizens of Gaza as human shields you're still not allowed to target them.
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Even if Hamas were using the citizens of Gaza as human shields you're still not allowed to target them.
Shack said that about the HAMAS terrorists. Not the general Palestinian population.
No government or army is going to agree not to target terrorists who deliberately surround themselves with human shields.
It would mean that HAMAS - or AQ or ISIS or any rightie neo nazi group - could do 7 October and then retreat into a human shield. It would make it impossible for legitimate governments to protect their own citizens.
Those demographics are meaningless without the story of the forced depopulation of the Palestinian population during the same time period.
75 years is long enough.
You think that old woman gives a shit whether Israel gives Palestinians the vote? At her age?!
Unless your targets were the civIlian population. Then the term precision bombing is completely accurate.
The demographics are what they are.
You think the native American population would be as small without the white man's diseases? At a certain point, you have to go with the current situation.
But the targets were NOT the civilian population. They were HAMAS. Who used human shields.
Yes, but shack, like a large number of Israeli supporters, does not differentiate between Hamas and Palestinians, he sees every Palestinian in Gaza as 'Hamas'. Which is why shack refuses to say killing children is wrong, he sees them as Hamas.
That’s just a nonsensical word salad.
Talk about the depopulation of the indigenous Palestinian population. There is ample scholarship and documentation available.
But Israel does not have the legal right to self defence against the people they occupy in the first place.
The occupation is illegal
The blockade is illegal
Every settlement is illegal
Apartheid is illegal
You can't then use the claim that there are human shields to kill civilians.
If shack held you at gunpoint as a human shield the cops in Toronto would not be justified in killing you both to get squeezer.
Same in Gaza, you can't kill 70% women and children and then claim you were only aiming at Hamas.
Even if that were the case then its still the war crime of disproportionate response.
If that were the case.
Not to mention the seige that has blocked all food, water and power.
That is clearly targeting all the people in Gaza including civilians.
Of course not, Israel should open the gates and welcome Hamas and its fighters in for some coffee and crumpets.
ps...Squeezer would never be in the open or among the civilian population. It's the brothels that would have to be deeeeeep underground for everyone's safety.
Why the fixation on Israel? Iran backed Houthis have killed 500,000 civilians in Yemen Syria’s Assad has killed over 700,000 people North Korea is starving millions of its citizens to death and has executed 1.2 million political dissidents Iran kills gays and often murders girls for not wearing a hijab Where is the outrage against actual oppression?
You miss my point, which is that you have to deal with the current population mix - which is 73% Jewish - if you're going to realistically and pragmatically discuss the future and its alternative choices.
Can I make it any simpler for you? Or is even this still a "word salad"?
Piers Morgan made the point that this might represent only a small % of the Gazan population.
But the counter-point is that there has been no push back from Gazans who oppose this sort of behaviour. If folks were to behave like this in Canada, there would be massive denunciation of this behaviour. In Gaza, it simply doesn't occur.
