The BBC is both-sides'ing the war crime attack by Israel on Al-Shifa. (hexbear.net)

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I love how they make it conversational by phrasing it like an everyday question like "Aren't blueberries berries?"

Aren't hospitals protected under the rules of war?

Any hospital in a conflict is protected by the rules of war - they shall not be the target of an attack.

But in some circumstances, hospitals can lose that protective status if they're being used to "commit, outside their humanitarian function... acts harmful to the enermy", according to Protocol 1 of the Geneva Conventions.

Israel has said that is the case with Gaza's largest hospital, Al-Shifa- a claim disputed by Hamas and hospital authorities.

But there are several hurdles that still remain - as the BBC's Analysis editor Ros Atkins explains.

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I thought I created a typo somehow. Nope - "enermy" is all theirs.

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[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago

Fun how nobody questions Israel's claims that every Palestinian man, woman, and child has a Hamas commander in their back pocket.

"That was a school"

"yep that toddler had a high level Hamas commander in their textbook! Had to go! 🤷"

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

"That was a school"

My fear is now that Israel has attacked a hospital - any building is fair game for attack by them. Even a school housing 100s of families. They'll just say "There were tunnels..." and maybe produce some half-assed "evidence". Most western media outlets will say "We cannot confirm assertions by the IDF..." but that's filler text by the outlet and they'll be playing along with the IDF.

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

That's what they've already been doing with refugee camps. "There was a commander there we pinky swear uWu"

[-] Orannis62@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

This has already been the case for decades

[-] regul@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Gee I wonder why Israel is killing journalists in Gaza.

[-] Aryuproudomenowdaddy@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

It helps ease burdens on the IDF Fluffer Brigade, they immediately cream themselves everytime they murder a journalist.

[-] GriffithDidNothingWrong@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

order-of-lenin

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ros Atkins is the biggest fucking propagandist disinformation dickhead at the BBC. I fucking hate the very ground that he walks on and that he gets alzheimers early or and has to suffer losing his mind. I dunno, something nasty, he deserves it.

This is the guy that spread the guy that spearheaded the propaganda of "there are only 1000 nazis in ukraine" bollocks.

He is absolute evil. The very worst of the BBC ghouls.

If you want to bully this shit he's got a university thing in 31 hours that I think might have chat enabled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMX8uKc-_8E

[-] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

The rest of the video he shows of Sabrina Singh cuts off right before she admits that she's just repeating what Israel has told the pentagon. Atkins knows this and still presented it as the US independently confirming.

Inshallah, his last conversation wall-talk

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

I think my greatest takeaway from all the events since October 7 is that whatever last few remnants of trust I could possibly have on mainstream media have been utterly swept away. And I think I'm not the only one either. How can you continue trusting media when you see how most major newspapers nowadays only serve as Israel's press office?