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Originally Posted by burn_this_city
Its kind of sad watching Israel and her supporters contort in all sorts of ways to justify the incomparable level of destruction. Now the death toll is suspicious, but even if you took half the palestinian deaths away, Israel has still killed 10 times as many.
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The body count is being used by a lot of reporters and even commentators to ascribe blame of all of those to Israel while not clarifying the level of defense capabilities (of the 2874 missiles fired on Israel, Iron dome stops 95% of them at great material cost) one side has over the other and completely evading questions about ultimate responsibility for these killings. Questions such as why is Hamas hiding rockets and missiles in UN run schools when by international law you are required distinguish between military and civilian facilities? What does it mean when Hamas turns a UN run hospital into a "de-facto headquarters" and why does Hamas keep on rejecting and, in all four cases, violating cease fires it agreed to? How does Hamas distinguish between militant and civilian numbers? If a civilian stayed in the hospital that has now been converted to military use, it gets attacked, one side gave warning (as per international humanitarian law), the other told them to stay put (in violation of law)... who is to blame for that person's death?
Like I said before, a reasonable person might conclude that Hamas wants the war to continue and is relying on Israeli morality to not attack civilian sites Hamas has converted for military use or lack of Israeli morality to drum up international support with the deaths of it's own people. This does not absolve Israel of wrong doing for these civilian deaths, they are being far far too indiscriminate and I hope one day their leaders are held accountable... but to say it's unjustifiable... It's war