New evidence shows Hamas operated under Al-Shifa Hospital but falls short of proving Israel’s early claims that there was a command center there.

Gaza’s hospitals have emerged as a focal point in Israel’s war with Hamas, with each side citing how the other has pulled the facilities into the conflict as proof of the enemy’s disregard for the safety of civilians.

In four months of war, Israeli troops have entered several hospitals, including the Qatari Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital and Al-Rantisi Specialized Hospital for Children, to search for weapons and fighters. But Al-Shifa Hospital has taken on particular significance because it is Gaza’s largest medical facility, and because of Israel’s high-profile claims that Hamas leaders operated a command-and-control center beneath it. Hamas and the hospital’s staff, meanwhile, insisted it was only a medical center.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    unless it becomes co-opted for military purposes or represents a legitimate military objective

    That’s the IDF excuse, not the actual law.

    all proportionality calculations must still be made regarding collateral damage.

    You mean the ones the IDF clearly never bother with? Just yesterday, they killed 95 people, most of them civilians, to free 2 hostages.

    The hospital became a legitimate target when Hamas militants, under military orders, brought in hostages.

    First of all, that’s flat out false. Second, it hasn’t even been proven that it was the case. All we have is the word of the notoriously deceptive IDF.

    Notifying the hospital was clearly unreasonable

    Wrong again, genocide denier.

    as that would allow Hamas to remove the hostages

    Hostages who, if they were even there, were there for treatment?

    the recovery of which was the primary military objective.

    If you still believe that one, I have a pristine palace in Gaza to sell you…

    Proportionality considerations dictated what was a reasonable attack

    No. How many times are you going to be just confidently objectively wrong in one reply? Are you going for the record or something?

    they staged a controlled siege (to prevent the hostages from being moved) followed by a methodical taking of the facility.

    Did you get that bullshit verbatim from the IDF press release?

    Nothing about this was unreasonable or illegal given the full context.

    Literally everything about it was. You should be ashamed of yourself.