• thecookingsenpai@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    A lot of comments are saying that hamas hides behind civilians but from what I see and read hamas and civilians are a melting pot that is interwined due to the extreme oppression in gaza strip. Any palestinian civilian could understand and help or even just not condemn totally hamas due to their conditions and prolly Israel gladly label as hamas any slightly suspect palestinian top

    • RGB3x3@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If you know that your enemy is hiding behind civilians and still kill the civilians, you’re the bad guy.

      It’s a piss poor excuse for murder.

      • InformalTrifle@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        So don’t retaliate? I think the Israeli response is over the top but should they never respond if their attackers fire from within civilian areas and don’t care at all about civilians on their own side?

      • thecookingsenpai@lemmy.ml
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        11 months ago

        Yes is basically what i said in the last sentence. Sometimes u just can’t untie civilians and fighters, especially when you are actively radicalizing civilians daily

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Though You’re mostly right, it’s missing a key part: the Israeli government has actively worked to make it this way, sponsoring Hamas with money and help because they wanted this. If you have an extremist organization so intertwined in the civil population, you can just go and murder them all.

      Hamas is evil, but the Israeli government is arguably worse

    • Sagifurius
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      11 months ago

      Hamas is literally the government of Gaza so