• Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Ok, let’s send them to the Hague I guess? Why do you think this is an important point? Hamas isn’t actually a legitimate organization that signed on to international law and would ever care what “legitimate warfare” is. They just went into Israel and murdered a bunch of civilians. If these fighters are caught whether the UN thinks they were wrong is the least of their problems.

    And none of that makes Israel attacking a hospital (or just the blatant collective punishment) justified.

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      1 year ago

      Hamas are the legal representative government of palestine mate. For all intents and purposes according to law, this is two countries at war, not a fight against a terror group, but a hostile state

      • VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social
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        Nah the PLO is the official government of Palestine and is recognized as so by basically everyone, but they are stationed in the West Bank and Israel tries to keep them separated. Hamas has some control over Gaza and held an election decades ago before most of the people there could vote and hasn’t held another one since.

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          1 year ago

          The palestinian authority answers to hamas and the muslim brotherhood. So, yea, hamas, the people that actually got voted in, do run the show.

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        50% of the people alive in Palestine today weren’t born when the last election was held and then elections were shut down.

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      1 year ago

      Except it literally does justify attacking the hospital. Black on white, letter and spirit of the law.