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Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

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Post by loceng »

jncfhnb wrote: post #171
loceng wrote: post #145

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And it should also then be pointed out that under international law an occupier must treat those of their occupied state to a higher degree of care.

This actually varies on the control of the situation. If it’s an active battleground due to ongoing hostilities this does not apply and it is considered invaded rather than occupied with different standards.

Ongoing hostilities by which party..

The game of propaganda - the side with the best funded and most sophisticated and networked censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus - manufactures consent for what people believe, from what scope and narrowed context and angle they're perceive a situation at; and when the truth is becoming too clear the clarity is fogged with emotion and outrage.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

lehi wrote: post #184
jiggawatts wrote: post #151

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"Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says" ( https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/27/un-israel-food... ) "Intentionally depriving people of food is clearly a war crime. Israel has announced its intention to destroy the Palestinian people, in whole or in part, simply for being Palestinian. In my view as a UN human rights expert, this is now a situation of genocide."

Given their complicity with the October 7th attack, this is not a credible source. The ICJ is hearing the case—they maintain legitimacy.

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Post by jncfhnb »

l3mure wrote: post #189
jncfhnb wrote: post #48

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The rules of war are completely out the door when one side routinely pretends to be civilian, which is a war crime. Which is not to say it’s just to go committing whichever crimes you want, but discussing legal rights is largely pointless because it is immediately a lawless war.

> when one side routinely pretends to be civilian Israel actively promotes illegal, violent settlements that kill Palestinians under IDF protection. [1] / [2] --- Israel has on a number of occasions provoked border disputes and then claimed that IDF soldiers killed in those disputes were civilians. [2] > On that very day, however, a high-level decision was taken by the IDF to send a patrol of soldiers dressed up as p…

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Post by Gabriel54 »

itsoktocry wrote: post #88
Gabriel54 wrote: post #45

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Suppose I am a country at war with the United States. Do I have the right to kill every American journalist? Also, it is not clear what "working in Hamas" means since they formed the government of the Gaza strip, so people "working in Hamas" would include all public officials, civil servants, etc. Does Israel have the right to kill all the sanitation workers of the Gaza strip since they also "work in Hamas"?

> Suppose I am a country at war with the United States. Do I have the right to kill every American journalist? This something people say from 5000 miles from the conflict. "Rules" go out the window when you're the one holding the gun and being shot at. The people on the ground are just trying to survive.

So you are suggesting that international law vis a vis war does not apply during war?
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