Overall, 44 percent of the victims were children; the youngest was a day-old boy and the oldest was a 97-year-old woman.
  • nogooduser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    451·
    2 months ago

    I don’t get that mindset. Why is it ok to shoot through people to get to the bad guys?

    If the police did that when criminals took hostages it wouldn’t be acceptable so why is it acceptable for Israel?

    • stembolts@programming.devEnglish
      351·
      2 months ago

      It is a talking point meant to engage you and waste your time, it doesn’t have to make sense. This is conservative playbook 101.

      It is a demonstration of good faith vs bad faith. If only you explain it to the person properly then they will change their mind? Nope. They’re just energy/effort vampires trying to exhaust you.

    • Allah@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      2 months ago

      But they are taking precautions, you guys act like they are doing it deliberately without precautions

      • BeatTakeshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        Yeah right “precautions”

        https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

        “In war, we don’t have time to incriminate every target. So we’re prepared to take the margin of error of using AI, risking collateral damage and civilian deaths (…) and live with it,”

        The army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants.

        When it came to targeting alleged junior militants marked by Lavender, the army preferred to only use unguided missiles, commonly known as “dumb” bombs (in contrast to “smart” precision bombs), which can destroy entire buildings on top of their occupants and cause significant casualties. “You don’t want to waste expensive bombs on unimportant people — it’s very expensive for the country and there’s a shortage [of those bombs],”