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Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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Re: Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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If you are as ignorant as me:

"A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack."

"Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in the 2014 Gaza War, the Gaza war (2023-present), and the 2026 Lebanon war. by Russia and the Ba'athist Syria in the Syrian civil war, and by Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War, especially since the full-scale invasion in 2022."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike

Re: Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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post #2

If you are as ignorant as me: "A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack." "Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in…

I thought the US was caught doing a similar thing to those boats it was destroying because they might be carrying drugs.

Re: Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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post #2

If you are as ignorant as me: "A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack." "Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in…

The importance of the “double tap” was expounded by Columbus in Zombieland as Rule #2 to survive the apocalypse.

https://zombieland.fandom.com/wiki/Zombieland_Rules

Re: Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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post #2

If you are as ignorant as me: "A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack." "Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in…

Truly horrific

Re: Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'

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post #2

If you are as ignorant as me: "A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike [...] with a deliberately timed second strike in the same place several minutes later, usually in an attempt to maximize the casualties of an attack." "Double-tap strikes have been used by Saudi Arabia during its military intervention in Yemen, by the United States in Pakistan, Yemen, and the Gulf of Mexico, by Israel in…

I thought the US was caught doing a similar thing to those boats it was destroying because they might be carrying drugs.

> They were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the U.S. military was weighing whether to finish them off.

> "The video follows them for about an hour as they tried to flip the boat back over. They couldn't do it," one source said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/video-shows-final-con...

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