All available evidence shows that Israel has followed the laws of war, legal obligations, best practices in civilian harm mitigation and still found a way to reduce civilian casualties.

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    8 months ago

    Agreed that anyone committing war crimes needs to face justice. The problem is that many seem to be very loose about their definitions of war crimes but only when applied to Israel, which is actually taking extraordinary measures to reduce civilian harm, as this article details.

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        Did you read the article? Plenty of examples there, with citations.

        Israel gave warning, in some cases for weeks, for civilians to evacuate the major urban areas of northern Gaza before it launched its ground campaign in the fall. The IDF reported dropping over 7 million flyers, but it also deployed technologies never used anywhere in the world, as I witness firsthand on a recent trip to Gaza and southern Israel.

        Israel has made over 70,000 direct phones calls, sent over 13 million text messages and left over 15 million pre-recorded voicemails to notify civilians that they should leave combat areas, where they should go, and what route they should take. They deployed drones with speakers and dropped giant speakers by parachute that began broadcasting for civilians to leave combat areas once they hit the ground. They announced and conducted daily pauses of all operations to allow any civilians left in combat areas to evacuate.

        These measures were effective. Israel was able to evacuate upwards of 85 percent of the urban areas in northern Gaza before the heaviest fighting began. This is actually consistent with my research on urban warfare history that shows that no matter the effort, about 10 percent of populations stay.

        As the war raged on, Israel began giving out its military maps to civilians so they could conduct localized evacuations. This, too, has never been done in war. During my recent visit to Khan Yunis, Gaza, and the IDF civilian harm mitigation unit in southern Israel, I observed as the army began using these maps to communicate each day where the IDF would be operating so civilians in other areas would stay out of harm’s way.

        I saw that the IDF even tracked the population in real time down to a few-block radius using drone and satellite imagery and cell phone presence and building damage assessments to avoid hitting civilians. The New York Times reported in January that the daily civilian death toll had more than halved in the previous month and was down almost two-thirds from its peak.

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          @DarkGamer

          I read the opinion piece. The UN 🇺🇳 released a report yesterday called “The Anatomy of A Genocide,” the ICJ’s preliminary findings is that Israel is likely committing genocide. The IDF raped a woman in Al Shifa for two days until she could not speak, in front of her family. American propaganda is stunning.

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            UN 🇺🇳 released a report yesterday called “The Anatomy of A Genocide,”

            A report by Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, which means she is independent of the UN. She was authorized by HRC item 7 which was not approved by the UN itself, and is controversial. More info here.

            Related: “Algeria, where are your Jews?”

            the ICJ’s preliminary findings is that Israel is likely committing genocide.

            You are miscategorizing their ruling, they said there was enough of a possibility for an investigation, nothing about it being likely. Were that the case they would have ordered a ceasefire.

            The IDF raped a woman in Al Shifa for two days until she could not speak

            Congratulations, you’ve fallen for Hamas propaganda.

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              Regarding the Hamas propaganda one I would still take this with a grain of salt.

              Jerusalem post is a known supporter of Israel (no shit) and while there will be facts used the conclusions drawn will be biased - same as MEE or democracynow but other side

              Not saying its wrong, only consider it.

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                I’m afraid you’re projecting, given that every claim I’ve made is supported by credible citations that I took the time to provide for you. You clearly didn’t read any of them before replying.

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                  Facts are facts and opinions are opinions. The number of deaths, civilian deaths, in this conflict is going out of any chart of any conflict in the last 30 years.

                  Even if we try to focus in something like child under 8 years (that any reasonable person will agree that they are not linked in a terrorist group) this number is still terrorific high under any modern standard.

                  Are they carrying doctors? I can not negate neither confirmate. But a doctor embedded in a unit can not hide this level of death into innocent children.

                  And before you reply. No, no and no. Under no circumstances without a total broken moral compass is acceptable to kill kids under 8 years. They are not responsible for this and they didn’t choose to be there.

                  It just simply a monstruocity