• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    They apparently managed to kill Ibrahim Biari - he was near the top of the Hamas hierarchy. I’m impressed that they knew he was there.

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      8 months ago

      I think the average person knows something like sixty or seventy other people, IIRC. Israel flat out killed that many to get one guy; imagine every single person you know getting deleted instantly but the government saying “don’t worry, we got him, so it’s all good.” That’s without talking about the injured, that’s just the people who got immediately killed. Spree shooters have better target discipline than these fucks.

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        8 months ago

        You’re presupposing that a way to kill him without killing civilians existed, but I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many civilians just happened to be around him. As long as he’s near civilians, Israel either has to avoid killing him or triggers international outrage, so of course he’s going to stay near civilians.

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            8 months ago

            No one said that they “asked for it”. The principle isn’t that civilians near a military target somehow deserve to die, but rather that it can be necessary to destroy a military target even if civilians happen to be near it. The responsibility to separate civilians and military targets (and the blame for not doing so) lies with the side whose military targets are near civilians, not with the side that attacks those targets.

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      8 months ago

      This whole thing follows on the crowning jewel of intelligence fuckups, so I wouldn’t take any of their claims too seriously.