Blatant war crime caught on camera as civilians forced to search for mines and tunnels and even forced to dress in Israeli military uniform to draw sniper fire
New footage released by Al Jazeera shows Israeli troops forcing Palestinian hostages to walk into wrecked buildings to look for explosives and tunnel entrances – and even being forced to walk ahead dressed in Israeli military uniform, presumably to draw sniper fire if resistance forces are active in the area:
Israel and the US routinely accuse Hamas and other groups of using civilians as human shields, when in fact in a tiny enclosed area containing millions of people, resistance groups have no choice about where to be. But Israel is clearly committing the blatant war crime of using civilians to shield its troops from the consequences of its invasion of Gaza and its genocidal assault on the people of Gaza.
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In the above article it says that ‘Israel and the US routinely accuse Hamas and other groups of using civilians as human shields, when in fact in a tiny enclosed area containing millions of people, resistance groups have no choice about where to be’, but that’s not actually the situation, and what Hamas are accused of is using hospitals and schools etc where thousands of people are sheltering as locations where they fire rockets from or locate their command centers, which Hamas refute, and there’s an obvious reason why they WOULDN’T use such locations:
In a scenario in which Hamas fired rockets from hospital grounds and used such places and the people there as human shields AND the IDF targeted them anyway, then surely you would very soon stop doing that from such locations, precisely because it doesn’t deter the IDF.
And your thinking would be (as Hamas – in such a scenario) that the IDF know we use hospitals and schools etc. where people are sheltering, so THOSE locations are gonna be the obvious places they’re gonna look for us (with their drones), so they are in fact the unsafest places for us.
BN and Co are lying through their teeth of course – and have been all along – so that they can slaughter civilians – women (including pregnant women) and children and toddlers and babies (including new-born babies) and the elderly and disabled and non-combatant men – en masse. And needless to say, if your target is Hamas fighters, then what possible reason would or could you have for using 2,000lb bombs that can kill and maim people more than 300 metres away, and they have dropped literally thousands and thousands of them on Gaza during the past nine months. Supplied to them by the US!
The Nazis did the same in Vietnam if Devil’s Guard by George Robert Elford is to be believed
I don’t know if you read the same book but the yanks after the war used a nazi force against mo they caused havoc with his lines the only way he stopped them was to complain to the world organisation about their cruel ways so they got took out anyone else doing that the yanks would have created holy hell
Afghanistan, Iraq, war on Terror, Gaza, Ukraine. In the twenty first century, it looks like the US has transformed itself from merely operating a war machine, to becoming one. Apartheid Israel is its expensive protectorate
And, FWIW, Privatisatio, rampant neoliberalism, outsourcing and austerity (not something the US usually imposes on itself, the Chicago School mostly gives classes to America’s economic competitors)) is breaking the American War Machine. There is no better ‘target’ for. America’s attentions here, as the very same practices are HOLLOWING OUT our public sector and NHS.
A might useful read: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/how-america-broke-its-war-machine
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ALL who pray, PRAY that we r spared the ABOMINATIONS that r bad Bad BAD news Starmer & Co!
ALL who trust in something other than prayers, then do so with as much STRENGTH and FOCUS u can muster!!
The unceasing dishonesty , cynicism, and all round pure wickedness displayed so far by Starmer & Co. is as NOTHING compared to what they will unleash on the many if they get their grubby claws on power.
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Even those astonishingly STILL blinding and deafening themselves with their own hope, will be surprised by the concentrated rightwing toxin that is Starmer & Co‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
We should salute the resilience of the peoples of Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, the Balkans – Not forgetting the magnificent and long-suffering people of Palestine in the face of U$A’s murderous record throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
Our record as the USA’s running dog is little better.
When it cost Iran $2m to breach the Iron Dome and Israel and America $2billion to defend it, then to all intents and purposes they are a sitting duck and bankrupt
Now let’s start celebrating the end of the Cheap and Nasty Tory party and the beginning of the end for the Red Tory party, who are financed by Israel
When can we expect an article with a comment section, skwawky? The world hasn’t stopped because we knew what was coming.
Some of the vermin (within smarmerite labour, but not enough) have been eradicated.
Some got away with it (rats)
Jonathan Pie has his work cut out.
…And so does socialism. Smarmer is gonna bollocks things up so the electorate lurch further to the right, and flange has been elected (played, dickheads of clacton…but you are essex DIVVYS)
Ach! Am fookin sick of this place. Yes, keef, farage & co, I have NO faith in this country.
I mean, you both harp on about “Patriotism” but what and who’s country is it when you’re only too happy to sell it off?