‘Not a normal war’: doctors say children have been targeted by Israeli snipers in Gaza ( www.theguardian.com )

Israeli and foreign human rights groups have documented a long history of snipers firing on unarmed Palestinians, including children, in Gaza and the West Bank.

Palestinians in Gaza also report a terrifying new development in the latest Gaza war – armed drones able to hover over streets and pick off individuals. Called quadcopters, some of these drones are used as remote-control snipers that Palestinians say have been used to shoot civilians.

Omgboom ,

Israeli snipers were targeting children before the war too

SkyezOpen ,

Basically every headline can be replaced with "Israel is now doing what it's always been doing but much more frequently."

MentalEdge ,
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I mean... Netanyahu has made it pretty clear that the goal is to kill them all.

Bipta ,

And the IDF rank and file. And a whole lot of Israeli civilians.

MentalEdge ,
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Indeed. War gets people killed, indiscriminately. Only madmen too out of touch with reality refuse to consider peace.

Both sides of this conflict have some of the worst of humanity in positions where they get to decide over such things. And as a result the situation has become an absolute meat grinder of the innocent.

I don't even pretend to know a way to sort it out. Except that not adding more blades to the grinder might be a good start.

underisk ,
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How many Israeli civilians are starving or dead? How is Hamas’ blockade of Israel going? How much US aid has Hamas stopped from entering Israel?

Don’t “both sides” a genocide you fucking clown.

MentalEdge ,
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Are you saying every person on the side being eradicated is a saint? Are you saying all "both sides" statements are inaccurate simply because one side has shown itself to be by far more monstrous?

Does their innocent dead now become unworthy of considering? People have died on both sides. There are innocent people on both sides. There are monstrous people on both sides.

Ignoring any of that because Gaza is being absolutely stomped by Israels more powerful position does a disservice to anyone trying figure out what is actually happening, and what a way to make it stop might look like.

Shit people in charge doesn't excuse killing kids, but killing kids doesn't make the shit people cease to exist, either.

The whole thing needs to stop. But let's not kid ourselves with the idea that that ball in the long is entirely in Israel's court. It simply isn't that simple.

Is it step one? Yes. Does it have to be step one, because right now nothing Hamas can do or say will make it stop? Yes.

But is it the last step? Fuck no.

underisk ,
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The morality of one side of the other is entirely fucking irrelevant. One side is doing a genocide. Period. They should stop. Immediately. Nothing, absolutely nothing in the entire fucking world justifies starving an entire population, relentlessly bombing civilians, turning hospitals into rubble, killing aid workers, killing journalists, and leveling houses, cities, and infrastructure.

Go to hell you fucking idiot.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Again, removed for civility. You make a salient point right up until you attack the other user.

jordanlund Mod ,
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Removed, attacking the user isn't allowed. Totally OK until the last 3 words.

MonsterMonster ,

The whole event of 7th Oct, as horrendous as it was, is now completely and utterly overshadowed by these evil events in Gaza. The whole thing is deplorable on both sides. This is pure evil.

hydroptic ,

At this point I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out Bibi staged the October attack as a false flag so he could justify genocide.

x4740N ,
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Honestly I just don't know what to think anymore when I see news headlines like this this, I just feel a whole range of emotions

How could you do that to another human, especially a kid

Edit: just to add, no war is normal

hydroptic ,

How could you do that to another human, especially a kid

Easy peasy, just take a page from the conservative playbook and don't think of your "enemies" as human

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