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Hospitals have special protection under the rules of war. Why are they in the crosshairs in Gaza? (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Nobody@lemmy.world to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of surgery at Gaza’s largest and most advanced hospital held up his phone Saturday to the hammering of gunfire and artillery shelling. “Listen,” said Dr. Marwan Abu Sada as fighting raged around Shifa Hospital.

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[-] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 33 points 11 months ago

Not sure why you’re being downvoted… Israel an ethnostate, and what we’re seeing here are the early stages of a genocide. Look at any other ethnic cleansing in history, and you’ll easily see the parallels.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Well, I'm not sure early stages fits, that's calling for a group to removed and Israel has been bombing water wells, while monopolizing all water supplies and providing only dangerously! small amounts of unclean water. Without question, this has caused unneeded deaths. Simmiliarly for electricity and food supplies.

It's tragically been a genocide for a long time.

[-] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

You know, I was trying to tread lightly, lest the Zionist apologists show up to try and redefine “genocide”.

But the reality is this:

Tens of thousands of civilians are being murdered (shot, bombed, starved, water supply poisoned) by Israel’s military.
Israel is an ethnostate which believes that their race makes them god’s chosen people.
One of the Israeli government cabinet members has declared that the Palestinians in Gaza must be eradicated, and that he would drop a nuclear bomb on Gaze if he could.

When you use the U.N.’s definition of genocide (“acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group”), the picture is pretty clear.

[-] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Absolutely. I hope I didn't sound pedantic or talking down, my intent was just to have more details higher in the thread in case some of those zionist shit poster tolls take over the bottom. You're 100% right on every point and I wish you weren't.

[-] whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I didn’t receive it as pedantic or talking down at all. I just totally agree with you as well!

[-] Argonne@lemmy.world -5 points 11 months ago

Israel is definitely not an ethnostate. It has 20% Arabs. How many Jews does Palestine have?

[-] cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago

Calling a state an Ethnostate doesn’t mean you’re saying the population is entirely of one ethnicity. It means one ethnicity is given a privileged status above all others.

Israel was founded when Zionists purged Palestinians from their homes and forced them into Gaza and the West Bank in order to create a Jewish majority state. That makes Israel an ethnostate by definition.