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crashfrog@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Throwing a rock at someone can cause grievous injury or death. We’re not talking about pebbles; they’re throwing multi-kilogram stones in an attempt to damage IDF property and harm IDF soldiers.

And you may say “ok, well, that’s war; soldiers and their equipment are fair game” and that’s fair, but if you attack enemy soldiers that makes you a soldier, whatever your age might be.

So the IDF can either capture and imprison these people, or they can shoot them. Sometimes they do - the prisoners held by IDF are the ones they didn’t.

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bababatman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.

Face it, team Israel is deep in the toilet, stinking of shit and sewage, and the smell ain’t never coming out. Not in this life time nor in the next.

Called karma, dude.

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- SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  The IDF are a colonial occupying army. I think the Palestinians are responding to them the way the entire rest of the planet would.
  
  Theyre neither colonial nor occupying. They’re invading in response to a foreign government massacring their people. The reason for the massacre was to force Israel to respond and thus damage Israel’s normalization of diplomacy with Saudi Arabia.
  
  Hamas isn’t fighting off colonial oppressors. They are engaging in politically motivated terror strikes designed to weaken the standing of a people they want to exterminate, at the cost of the lives of their civilians.
  
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  - NewDark@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If they aren’t occupiers…
    
    Why doesn’t Gaza have an airport? (it was destroyed in 2002 and not allowed to rebuild)
    
    What happens when Gazan’s go too far off the coast? (they get shot)
    
    What happens when they go past the border wall? (they get shot)
    
    But sure, maybe you like the term “under seige” better? Is that more accurate for you?
    
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    SCB@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So is Egypt occupying Gaza? They’re involved in the blockade.
    
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Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Being a soldier illegally on someone’s land is highly illegal they have no business being in the west bank whatsoever but expanding their illegal colonies

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