• GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    6 months ago

    One of the really fascinating things about October 7th was that Israel's top priority was openly "preventing Hamas from getting in", with all other considerations, like the preservation of Israeli life, coming second. Then you read stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside, and it becomes an inevitable conclusion that the civilian death toll (such as it even existed, since there was a heavy military presence there) was almost entirely Israel's fault on an immediate level, even before getting into "Their policies made the attack inevitable" and such

    • theturtlemoves [he/him]
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      6 months ago

      stories about helicopters firing missiles without targeting carefully or those girls in tanks firing on kibbutz homes without a clear idea of who is inside

      Does anyone have a 'reputable' (i.e. Western or at least Al Jazeera) source for both of these? I need to show some people.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        6 months ago

        Discussion of the helicopter story, linking directly to a Hebrew article on it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/11993

        And a version of the tank story, though you can even find writers on Haaretz complaining about it: https://thecradle.co/articles-id/15975

      • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org
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        6 months ago

        Also Reuters if they don't belive the other source

        https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-inquiry-finds-oct-7-hostage-likely-killed-by-friendly-fire-2024-04-05/