• problematicPanther@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        palestinian civilians didn’t do this you sick fuck. Israel has been doing the same shit to palestinian civilians for decades. Rape, infanticide, torture, kidnapping children and calling them terrorists. from what i see, you can say the same thing of israel that you are asserting of hamas.

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            11 months ago

            you’re a military vet. did you skip the class on LOAC? civilian non combatants are not targets and intentionally targeting them (as the IDF is doing) is a big no-no. It’s called a war crime. so is bombing anything with a big ass red cross or crescent.

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              11 months ago

              LOAC allowed us to target any structure housing terrorists. That’s why we flattened Fallujah. Gaza and Fallujah are very much the same.

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                11 months ago

                Okay, so, Fallujah and Gaza are similar in that they are both urban warfare. That’s about it. the US set up checkpoints around the city and allowed civilians to flee. In gaza, there’s nowhere to go. IDF is attacking where they are telling the civilians to flee to. Red cross estimated 800 civilian casualties in Fallujah. As of 7 December, there are over 17,000 Palestinian casualties , it’s estimated that 61% (about 10,000) are civilians. That leaves only 39% to be actual combatants. Remember, killing noncoms is a war crime.

                Fallujah mas also much smaller. Gaza is an order of magnitude larger. Bit somehow, the IDF is managing to outpace the US forces in Fallujah in terms of displacing those civilians too. 80 percent of Gazans are displaced, around 1.7 million civilians. In Fallujah, that number was closer to 200k (about 57%)

                Fallujah is one of the worst battles in the war on terror. Yet somehow even we didn’t fuck it up for civilians there as bad as the IDF is doing in Gaza.