Nine United Nations staff members have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza since Saturday, the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees confirmed Wednesday. The U.N. Relief and Works Agency…
Israel bombs every place the Hamas is using. The problem is, the Hamas is regularly using civilian buildings.
And Israel doesn’t care at best or at worst is using this to have a real excuse for it.
Plus we don’t know the criteria of a military target. Let’s assume good faith and then only military targets are being hit. What is the military target? Anybody who’s associated with the military? Associated with the government? Anybody whose cell phones spends time with the cell phone of somebody associated with the military or the government? People who spend time in the same house? People who pull money out of the ATM at the same time? People who text each other? It’s a small city, the social graph is going to be pretty dense. You bomb one building everyone runs away, now all those associated targets are in new buildings, and it continues.
The belligerent, Hamas, is the civil government in Gaza right now. All civil infrastructure, through some lens, is a military target.
There are some military doctrines, saying putting pressure on civilian populations, causes problems for the military, and the government supporting the military. So from that viewpoint inflicting infrastructural chaos, weakens the ability of the state to fight. Not saying that’s the doctrine they’re using, but it’s possible, we don’t have data, there’s not a published list of why a certain building was targeted.
Israel has had a very loose criteria for military targets if you take a look at recent history. I think you bring up a major point.
Considering Netanyahu just said he would attack foreign aid for Palestine. Israel’s actions like the IDF sniping kids in convenience stores, and taking shots at the Japanese medical personnel during the cease fire of operation pillar of defense/cloud, and targeting media offices should call into question, what does Israel consider a military target?
Well, you assume semi-wrongly there.
Israel bombs every place the Hamas is using. The problem is, the Hamas is regularly using civilian buildings. And Israel doesn’t care at best or at worst is using this to have a real excuse for it.
Plus we don’t know the criteria of a military target. Let’s assume good faith and then only military targets are being hit. What is the military target? Anybody who’s associated with the military? Associated with the government? Anybody whose cell phones spends time with the cell phone of somebody associated with the military or the government? People who spend time in the same house? People who pull money out of the ATM at the same time? People who text each other? It’s a small city, the social graph is going to be pretty dense. You bomb one building everyone runs away, now all those associated targets are in new buildings, and it continues.
The belligerent, Hamas, is the civil government in Gaza right now. All civil infrastructure, through some lens, is a military target.
There are some military doctrines, saying putting pressure on civilian populations, causes problems for the military, and the government supporting the military. So from that viewpoint inflicting infrastructural chaos, weakens the ability of the state to fight. Not saying that’s the doctrine they’re using, but it’s possible, we don’t have data, there’s not a published list of why a certain building was targeted.
Israel has had a very loose criteria for military targets if you take a look at recent history. I think you bring up a major point.
Considering Netanyahu just said he would attack foreign aid for Palestine. Israel’s actions like the IDF sniping kids in convenience stores, and taking shots at the Japanese medical personnel during the cease fire of operation pillar of defense/cloud, and targeting media offices should call into question, what does Israel consider a military target?