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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Massive bias aside, the guardian was at least decent enough to get the Israeli response. However, the IDF isn’t providing a direct answer, which raises suspicion.

    Regardless, letting civilians know they should head south and then attacking the designated safe routes is definitely a problem, unless they can prove they didn’t.

    Problem is, if the IDF would legally ratify each attack, they’ll kill nothing but civilians.

    It’s a shitty situation either way. War in Gaza can’t possibly be clean.

    Luckily for Hamas, they don’t have such rules to abide by.


  • My source is https://ihl-databasrs.icrc.org and https://www.icrc.org (international red cross).

    And naturally some wikipedia to help, but I only quote from the red cross. Feel free to check the links.

    Hamas is in clear violation of all the articles of the 3rd common article of the Geneva convention. Every single section. However, the law doesn’t apply since they never agreed to be bound by them or sign the accord.

    I did not see any article that states that if your enemy isn’t bound by the Geneva convention, then it means you aren’t too.

    The 1987 additional to the Geneva protocol at 1977 also states in article 3 section 1 that “nothing in this protocol shall be invoked for the purpose of affecting the sovereignty of a state or the responsibility of the government, by all legitimate means, to maintain or re-establish law and order in the state or to defend the national unity and territorial integrity of the state.”

    This would explain the repeating political statement: “Israel has the right to defend itself”, as it matches this section.

    Also, during the original signing of the Geneva article 3, France and Britain inserted section C paragraph 1 “Scope of the application of common article”.

    And this states verbatim - "Common article 3 does not provide a detailed definition of its scope of application, nor does it contain a list of criteria for identifying the situations in which it is meant to apply. It merely stipulates that ‘[I]n the cas of armed conflict not of an international character occuring in the territory of one of the high contracting parties’, certain provisions must be respected by the parties of the conflict.

    So this is quite the rabbit hole in terms of the law.

    I will read further into this, but it seems that saying the city is dense makes them guilty is a claim for court, and a guess, not a ruling. It doesn’t also clearly let’s Israel off the hook, as definitions can sway the lettering.

    Also, maybe I’m missing some addendums. Don’t know, I’m not a lawyer.

    Laws aside though, this is still an awful situation.


  • Didn’t find that specific truck reference, but I did find. BBC reference from yesterday that people in Khan Younis were bombed after being told to head south of Wadi Gaza. They were bombed because of Hamas presence.

    I don’t know if attacking terrorists that hold human hostages as shields is a war crime, but it sure as shit sounds awful. Especially since the civilians can’t always tell they’re being actual human shields.

    What a nightmare.