"There is no way they could have been considered combatants," said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."
  • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    This is going to be unpopular, but how do we know they’re non-combatants? Just because they’re unarmed at the moment the video is filmed, doesn’t make the non-combatants, AFAIK.

    We’re basing this on the opinion of a a biased reporter, who wached the video and described what they saw?

    Disclaimer, required around here:
    Fuck Israeli Government.
    Fuck Hamas.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      If Israel brought out video evidence of these specific guys doing stuff before then I’d agree. But with their track record the burden is definitely on them to prove these guys were combatants they just happened to catch unaware.

      • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        I’m sure the Israeli government has a lot of their hands right now to comment on every twitter video posted by a person who’s location is set to Gaza.

        If this is actually a war crime, I hope the culprits are punished accordingly.

        Other than that, I’m going to treat this as yet another twitter video, without context, cut to fit an agenda, with some blood-boiling comment.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      If you’ve ever seen a Hamas video they sneak through the opnenings in the sides of buildings. They certainly don’t walk around in the open like this without worries.

      The burden of evidence lies on israel, and just like that time they drone striked an ambulance, no evidence will be presented.

      • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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        8 months ago

        We can’t deduce shit from a video like this, especially when it’s just posted on “X” by a strongly biased source.

        I’ll wait for a credible source to report on this, twitter bullshit can stay in twitter.

  • Forester@yiffit.net
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    8 months ago

    The cynic in me thinks the IDF would not use $3000 in munitions to kill four random guys. Bullets are dirt cheap fpv bomb drones are expensive. From that I can only assume someone really wanted to kill one of them for some reason that we can not determine from the limited footage. I’m not saying war crimes including intentional starvation and indiscriminate fire are not happening but I don’t think this is one of them this looks far too coordinated and planned to be a random act of aggression.