A Sky News visual investigation shows a building in Deir al Balah was hit one day after civilians were told they could flee to the city. Israel says it struck military targets in the area that day. The UN told Sky News that such strikes had "no rationale".
  • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Apparently, Israel isn’t as bad as Russia because their military is more competent and their enemies are less-competent.

    I’m sure the families getting bombed think so, too.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      Not disparaging you, but it seems weird to me that people compare Israel and Russia, no matter who they consider worse in the end. Israel isn’t Middle East Russia; they’re Middle East Nazi Germany. The scale is completely different.

    • CluckN@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      Pshh what is the UN going to do? “Hey if you guys keep doing this we’ll sanction ketchup imports in 3 years”.

      • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        I said they’re naive, let alone accomplishing anything. Israel has had their knife in the UN’s back since before the beginning.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Using on-the-ground footage, satellite imagery and mapping software, a Sky News visual investigation found that Israel’s evacuation orders have instead been chaotic and contradictory and that a neighbourhood in Deir al Balah was hit one day after the IDF said evacuees could flee there.

    “This is exactly why we as the UN have been saying that there is no safe place in Gaza,” Ajith Sunghay, head of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, told Sky News.

    The Musabeh home lay in the heart of Deir al Balah, less than 300 metres from Shuhada street - a road explicitly marked by the Israeli army as a route by which civilians could safely reach the city.

    The footage below, captured by Gaza-based journalist Yosef al-Saifi, shows the immediate aftermath: a woman and two children calling for help on top of the ruined home, a street covered in rubble, and a car on fire.

    Preliminary research carried out by Airwars, an organisation specialising in the verification of airstrike casualties, found online tributes to one of those killed in the attack, Mohammad Kamal Abu Musabeh and further posts about the injured infant Layan.

    Brian Finucane, an expert legal adviser with the non-profit International Crisis Group, says that there is a requirement on warring parties to provide effective advanced warnings to civilians, where feasible.

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