JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

  • @ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com
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    502 years ago

    This exactly is my main gripe with how Israel is conducting this war. They’re completely unwilling to take any additional risk to preserve civilian life.

    • @constate368@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      Even the US sent troops in to kill a scumbag like Uday Hussein instead of bombing with an airstrike.

      This is just the Zionist creed of “unlimited Palestinian deaths don’t make up for 1 Israeli.”

    • @TheYang@lemmy.world
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      22 years ago

      Well, the US has shown that they couldn’t fight an insurgency with their level of protections for civilians.
      Makes sense that Israel assesses that they have less resources than the US, and thus can’t fight the same way and have a hope of success.

      Of course they could have used that as a pretty good reason not to start this war in the first placez but alas, they didn’t.

      • @Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network
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        12 years ago

        What argument are you making here? Your first paragraph implies you believe that Isreal is justified in it’s approach based on the US’s failed conflicts with Guerilla warfare. But then your second paragraph implies that Isreal is not justified for exactly that reason, which is like… Yeah… That’s correct lol.

        I feel like it shouldn’t be a controversial opinion to say that if you are unable to conduct a war without massive civilian casualties then you shouldn’t be conducting that war. If you do anyway you are, at the very best, a war criminal.

    • Karyoplasma
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      22 years ago

      It’s not just in “this war”, they weren’t giving a shit about Palestinian civilians for decades.