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IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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Real shame this got flagged so quickly, too. This is prime HN material.

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Oh no, we shouldn't talk about war crimes because the iPhone I'm tapping my words into has some tech from the nation committing those war crimes. I should be more THANKFUL!

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

#132
post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=flags%20off%20turn%20by%3Adang... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47141443

You always have plenty of excuses when you get called out. Looking the other way while bot armies mass downvote pro Palestine / anti ICE / anti PayPal mafia content is complicity. I’m sure you have the data to suss out what is obvious to anyone watching these threads in real time.

Think about what you are saying for a moment. Why would "bot armies" come to Hacker News of all places to flag pro-Palestine articles? Don't you think it's a much more reasonable conclusion that people read the site guidelines[1], which clearly say that political posts are off-topic, and then flagged for that reason instead?

There are a million places to discuss politics online. If I wanted to discuss politics, I would go to any one of them. Claiming any HN moderator is 'complicit' in atrocities is absurd.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

#133
post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any posts linked to the IDF committing crimes are automatically flagged on this site (and others). Many bots are at play here.

Its not automatic due to bot activity. It is from people actively suppressing stories that don't want other people to see. This is discernible by watching how long it takes stories like these to reach a flagged state on the new submissions page. It is further evident by watching which comments within those submissions get flagged based upon their upvotes and visibility.

Indeed, and try suggesting there should be minimal accountability for flagging[0] and you'll likewise be flagged. Sure maybe the data says there's not some cartel flagging conspiracy but it starts to seem awful suspicious that even reasonable discussion of this misfeature gets flagged.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44962005

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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From where I sit nobody is questioning that the Israelis are supposed to be the good guys in this story. But the stories coming from the region are horrific! Is it true that it is the official policy of the IDF to shoot to kill children who throw stones at them? Plus because Israel is making serious efforts to choke off all information from the region, I understand that it takes some time before a sober accounting of…

Where I'm sitting, nobody would question that Israel is and has been the bad guy since 1948. Before that it was the Jewish Agency for Palestine/World Zionist Organisation and the British.

Israel has been an apartheid performing ethnic cleansing and a slow genocide during its whole existence.

Re: IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report

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post #130

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Oh, come on.

> The Israeli military was forced to change its story about the ambush several times, following the discovery of the bodies in a mass grave, along with their flattened vehicles, and the emergence of video and audio recordings taken by the aid workers. An internal military inquiry ultimately did not recommend any criminal action against the army units responsible for the incident.

Unfortunately, the takeaway here will be "be better at destroying the evidence". The video is quite damning against their initial claims; it includes an uninterrupted view of their arrival, in marked emergency vehicles with lights on and uniformed personnel, and the gunfire beginning: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-isr...

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