Israeli soldiers appear to be using the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in the Gaza Strip as a br for military operations, and, since March, also a school in the village of Juhor ad Dik, which is located about one kilometer from the border with Israel and was destroyed in the Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, indicated by aerial photographs that the Washington Post published on Friday.
The report states that the satellite imagery documents the construction of earth berms around the hospital, which halted operations early in the war, in late November, and near the school in Juhor ad Dik in the second half of March.
the article says the hospital isn’t active ‘halted operations early in the war’
This would mean that the IDF isn’t using a active hospital as a shield for military operations.
I get the temptation is to say ‘Hey the IDF is doing exactly what they said Hamas was doing’, but the key is active hospital for a apples to apples comparison.
There is no shortage of war crimes to get upset about, but to make a inaccurate comparison gives ammunition to the genocide supporters to discredit the reports of genuine crimes against humanity.
Yeah, no. Shilling for the IDF is a bad look.
They bombed the hospitals and are denying health care while occupying the health care facilities. So instead of “hiding behind patients” bullshit, it is denying the ability to treat patients.
Not being exactly the same is not as important as the fact that they are running military operations from a hospital.
It doesn’t matter if its a bad look, it gives the apologists ammunition to undermine all of the valid and critical war crime reporting.
The IDF is operating from a former hospital site, which is terrible - it isn’t, however, the same as using a active hospital and patients as a human shield for military operations - which is what the IDF claimed Hamas was doing.
Going around and saying the IDF is doing what they said Hamas was doing, when there is a critical difference, will undermine all reporting of the IDF war crimes.
The complaint here isn’t ‘They are denying a hospital’ it’s clearly meant to trigger outrage ‘look at this MFers doing exactly what they accused Hamas of doing using human shields’ … from a hospital implies its a active hospital, not a deactivated former hospital site.
Any criticism gives apologists ammunition because they twist everything and lie. What stupid fucking reason not to call bad actors out on their bullshit.
You are being an apologist for the IDF right now.
Pointing out the current “news” is working against the anti-genocide interests is not being a apologist, and you calling it such is a weak attempt at gate-keeping and a ad-hominin attack.
You have no idea what either of those words mean.
Keep embarrasing yourself though, it is entertaining.
The fact that there aren’t patients seems immaterial. The rules against this aren’t predicated on how many patients are inside.
By militarizing the hospital, they’ve made it a target, which you’re not supposed to do. That’s essential infrastructure. That’s jeopardizing that critical infrastructure by using it as a shield.
It’s not good.
Yeah strange that Palestinians just abandoned this hospital for no reason. I wonder how the IDF stumbled onto an empty hospital they are using as their base to commit war crimes.