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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Palestinian civilians being killed en masse are simply “collateral damage”

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Netanyahu Calls Palestinians ‘Collateral Damage’ As Israel Destroys Gaza

The right-wing leader appeared on multiple cable news shows to speak on the current state Israel’s monthlong siege on Gaza, which human rights experts have warned amount to ethnic cleansing and war crimes.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes, and said that the only solution to the violence is to end the Israeli occupation and allow Palestinians the right to self-determination.

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Israeli civilians being killed is a war crime though? Double standards much?
- Makes sense when they only think one side are actually human :(
  
  Hamas & Likud think that way.
  Ironically the party folks killed on Oct 7th would have been anti-Likud types.
- Everyone knows that Muslims aren't human
  Bibi, probably
- Targeting civilians is a war crime. Targeting enemy combatants while trying to evacuate civilians, trying to warn civilians so desperately that you warn the enemy combatants too, and killing civilians in attacks that target legitimate military targets and reflect a sufficient level of care to minimize risk to human life, is not a war crime, that's the definition of "collateral damage."
  There's no double standard there, that's the whole issue.
  
  They have bombed a neonatal unit! You can't murder premature babies and be like "Whoopsy!". Absolutely disgusting. As for 'evacuating civilians' they've blocked the borders. Workers who worked outside Gaza have been forcibly returned.
  This is genocide.
  
  I agree. Why doesn't Israel start acting like that? It's minimum behavior for a civilized nation.
They became the Nazis
- Zionists in Mandatory Palestine collaborated with the Nazis just prior to the Holocaust. "They" specifically meaning radical Zionists in Israel. As a side note, Holocaust victims who immigrated to Palestine/Israel were often met with derision because the belligerent Israeli Zionists considered their "weakness" an embarassment to them. I've been reading a lot about Zionism recently and the more I learn the further it seems to me from the kind of values I'm familiar with from Judaism. Hopefully the philosophy goes the way of "Manifest Destiny" in the dustbin of history or at least transforms into something that does not require the removal of all Palestinians from their land.
  
  What is more collaborative:
  "They made an agreement where some Jews were allowed to flee the Holocaust"
  or
  this shit
  fleeing versus encouraging and attempting to extend the holocaust, who were the real Nazi collaborators?
Where's Genova when we need it? Well, we always need it.
- Rule #6 of the international humanitarian law:
  Parties to a conflict shall at all times distinguish between combatants and non-combatants. Attacks shall be directed solely against legitimate military targets.
  If you look up the definition of military targets you will see
  "In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage."
  You can ask pretty much every lawyer that Hamas actually made the hospitals into legitimate targets under the Geneva Conventions. The only party that clearly broke that law without a doubt is Hamas.
  
  I don't think I'll convince you, but...
  what you quoted only makes the Hamas facility the target. Civilians inside that hospital are not valid targets.
  I agree Hamas is to blame. But that doesn't mean we'll watch Israel bombard civilians and support Israel for that.
  Bye.
Is the title editorialized?
Original: Netanyahu Calls Palestinians ‘Collateral Damage’ As Israel Destroys Gaza Post title: Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Palestinian civilians being killed en masse are simply “collateral damage”
The revised title reads as Netanyahu using the world simply, which doesn't appear to be the case in the article.
it's quotes like these that result in a massive swing of support for a ceasefire despite a massively funded propaganda campaign in the media by israeli linked groups
- a one-sided ceasefire, or a two-sided ceasefire? Would you expect Hamas to keep its end of a ceasefire agreement?
The word "simply" is added by the journalist. Netanyahu did not say that.
Really everything taken straight out of the US playbook, they learned from us after all.

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