The European Union on Sunday condemned Hamas for using "hospitals and civilians as human shields" in Gaza, while also urging Israel to show "maximum restraint" to protect civilians.
Using human shields is a war crime, holding civilians hostage is a war crime, perfidy is a war crime, using recognized medical organization’s infrastructure is a war crime (transporting military assets in an ambulance from Red Cross/Red Crescent is a major no no). On Israel’s side, targeting journalists is a war crime, and targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime, civilian mass punishment is a war crime.
The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians
shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military
operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks
or to shield, favour or impede military operations. The Parties to the conflict
shall not direct the movement of the civilian population or individual civilians
in order to attempt to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield
military operations.
Being militarily more powerful does not imply that they don’t want to avoid civilian casualties. Fighting an enemy who primarily employ terrorist tactics causes a large amount of civilian casualties, and Gaza being one of the most densely populated areas in the world makes it even worse.
If we consider some sort of an upper limit how many civilians you theoretically could kill, there’s nazis. They killed 1,5 million jews in 100 days. And that’s only jews. Now, you don’t have to be redoing the holocaust in order to qualify for an atrocity of course, but Israel is definetely not trying to kill as many civilians as they can. This would look very different if they were.
Which war law is being broken?
Using human shields is a war crime, holding civilians hostage is a war crime, perfidy is a war crime, using recognized medical organization’s infrastructure is a war crime (transporting military assets in an ambulance from Red Cross/Red Crescent is a major no no). On Israel’s side, targeting journalists is a war crime, and targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime, civilian mass punishment is a war crime.
That one.
So obviously the answer is kill the civvies
Israel, to their credit, are taking steps to avoid civilian casualties, including leaflet drops, phone calls, and the infamous “roof knocking”.
Looking at the numbers they are doing great. For years even, championing, killing and injuring 20+ times more.
Source: https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties
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Being militarily more powerful does not imply that they don’t want to avoid civilian casualties. Fighting an enemy who primarily employ terrorist tactics causes a large amount of civilian casualties, and Gaza being one of the most densely populated areas in the world makes it even worse.
If we consider some sort of an upper limit how many civilians you theoretically could kill, there’s nazis. They killed 1,5 million jews in 100 days. And that’s only jews. Now, you don’t have to be redoing the holocaust in order to qualify for an atrocity of course, but Israel is definetely not trying to kill as many civilians as they can. This would look very different if they were.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine#Demographics_of_the_Gaza_Strip – their population growth is #34 in the world.