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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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Post by LorenPechtel »

throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #7

https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju... > How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist killings in Gaza

"One high-profile journalist targeted in this way was Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. After his death, the Israeli army quickly circulated documents claiming he had been a Hamas operative since 2013. "Yet even if taken at face value, the files showed his last contact with Hamas was in 2017 – years before the current war," said France 24."

You think Israel shows every bit of intel they have???? The last thing they showed being 2017 doesn't say he was only Hamas for four years.

The basic problem here is that all the terrorist groups over there call their propaganda people "reporters". In a sense they are, they are reporting on events. That does not make them not considered combatants, though. Israel has found terrorist affiliation for about half of the dead "reporters", but that doesn't make the others civilians. Hit a combatant, the person next to him is probably also a combatant.

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Post by zimza »

LorenPechtel wrote: post #12

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Hezbollah is the main political party in Lebanon. Anything can be related to the main political party of a country. It's like saying you can legally kill Israeli medics because they are "related to Likud".

In any case, killing medics is a violation of the Hague and Geneva conventions and the internal law.

If this story is hard for you to take seriously, there's thousands more stories, videos and witnessings of war crimes by Israel in very recent history..

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Post by aibrahem »

LorenPechtel wrote: post #17
RichEO wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does it mean for a medic to “be Hezbollah” in this context? Are you saying they are employed medics of the organisation? Party members? Combatants?

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In all your comments, you keep referring to the resistance groups fighting the Israeli occupation as terrorists, which I’m guessing makes you either an Israeli or pro-Israel.

The IOF has been notoriously lying about killing and torturing civilians. Not only that, but even soldiers caught red-handed on video raping prisoners have not only gotten away scot-free but also been allowed to rejoin the army. Is there a reason why we should trust anything such a genocidal, morally corrupt organization has to say?

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

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Post by se4u »

LorenPechtel wrote: post #15
throwawayqqq11 wrote: post #7

https://theweek.com/world-news/israel-legitimisation-cell-ju... > How Israel's 'Legitimisation Cell' is justifying journalist killings in Gaza

"One high-profile journalist targeted in this way was Al Jazeera reporter Anas Al-Sharif, who was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike earlier this month. After his death, the Israeli army quickly circulated documents claiming he had been a Hamas operative since 2013. "Yet even if taken at face value, the files showed his last contact with Hamas was in 2017 – years before the current war," said F…

> ... the person next to him is probably also a combatant

Absolutely, they could even be future combatants even if they are not now. That's why killing schoolgirls in Iran, reporters in Lebanon, etc. is justified, they are all potential terrorists. It definitely can not be proven otherwise that they are not. Why take a chance? /s

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