DdCno1,

It has resulted in level of destruction (e.g. 60% of homes damaged) that hasn’t existed since WW2.

You need to ignore lots of wars to come to this conclusion. Korea would be one immediately after WW2 that makes this one look like child’s play. More recently, the wars in Chechnya, the Syrian civil war, the Sudanese civil war, the civil war in Myanmar, etc. pp. are all vastly more destructive. There is a single death camp in Syria where Assad had up to 13,000 people murdered.

The sheer percentages of children being killed versus adults (nevermind combatants), is just staggering.

Could this be, because Hamas produces fake numbers to weaponize outrage against Israel? Read this:

nitter.net/Aizenberg55/…/1731753062622982386

Israel is not the ones supplying those resources anyways, other countries are, and Israel is blocking them.

Nonsense. Israel was supplying a significant portion of the strip’s power and electricity, as well as bringing in regular supplies of fuel and food. They stopped this on October 7. Israel has since continued this, even though they are not obliged, and also permitted foreign aid through the border crossing with Egypt. Meanwhile, Hamas have openly stolen a significant portion of these supplies, which is the actual reason why Israel stopped them in the first place. Hamas are the ones stealing from civilians and causing their suffering.

water infra and power plants

There’s only one power plant in Gaza, but you seem to have adopted the Hamas method of just making things up for outrage. I guess it’s rubbing off on you. As for the water infrastructure, do I need to remind you that Hamas is using water pipes to create unguided rockets to fire at Israeli population centers? That’s the actual indiscriminate bombing that few people are willing to talk about.

Why even have stipulations about war crimes, since apparently no one in a warzone can expect not to be killed indiscriminately anyways?

These rules are meant to not encourage the use of human shields, because this turns every group of civilians into a potential target. This isn’t difficult to understand - or at least it shouldn’t be. Many of the regulations of the Geneva Conventions are the least terrible solutions to awful questions. That’s sadly how the world works.

Hamas doesn’t “operate” from the 60% of residential buildings that have been damaged in Gaza

In a single so-called refugee camp in Northern Gaza (it’s a normal suburb with houses - it merely inherited the status due to unique UN rules that solely exist for Palestinians and no other people), almost half of all buildings were rigged with explosives. I’m sure whenever Hamas blows one of these up, it gets added to the amount blamed on Israel, just like when one of the 20% of rockets fired from Gaza falls on Gaza instead of hitting a random target in Israel.

Israel has shown no evidence

Here’s a video that shows rockets being launched right from the middle of a refugee camp:

old.reddit.com/…/footage_shows_hamas_launching_ro…

That’s just one of countless pieces of evidence that you choose to ignore in favor of that one-sided victim narrative of yours.

and in fact has been shown to have been dead wrong with their claims, such as at al-Shifa

You mean where they found weapons and a tunnel with an armored door with a firing port? That one? Or the al-Shifa hospital where a surveillance camera recording shows terrorists bringing in a hostage? Or was that a different al-Shifa?

Simply having your soldiers live somewhere doesn’t make it a valid target, otherwise the rocket attacks into Israel are all justified too.

I can tell you are not even trying to argue in good faith.

your country’s claims

I’m not Israeli.

half-baked justifications

At least I’m not ignoring evidence that is right in the open.

Let me ask you this: How should Israel have reacted to the terror attack on October 7? What would, in your eyes, an appropriate, justified response look like? Please be honest.

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