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Nobody is saying you can’t. Read the article.

It’s somewhat misleading to call one side of a war a ‘terrorist organisation’ though. That’s not really how war works.

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one side of a war a ‘terrorist organisation’

Are you shitting me? The group that has the destruction of Israel in their founding charter and that massacred more than 1000 civilians is just a regular war party? They are fucking war criminals according to International Humanitarian Law.

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You understand how many civilians Israel has massacred this week?

Both sides have committed war crimes but Israels are more numerous even if we talk about the current conflict and ignore the past decades of torture, cruelty and invasions.

Having said that, there’s been an acceptance of war crimes recently since America committed a lot.

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So you claim that Israel deliberately targeted the civilians in the same way Hamas did?

If Hamas or Islamic Jihad have their launch sites anywhere close or in civilian structures, those structures become legitimate military targets. Civilians have to get protected as good as possible, but not at any cost. The attacker only has to make sure that civilian deaths are not „excessive“ compared to the achieved military advantage. So valid military targets can be pretty much ANY civilian structure, if the structure is abused by the enemy. Abusing civilian structures, like putting launch sites close or into Schools, Hospitals or similar, makes those usually protected structures military targets.

And no - I do not like that - but it is war after all - and this is International Humanitarian Law.

So many things you probably consider war crimes, because civilians died in a Israeli attack against Hamas, are no war crimes. The only criminals in this equation is Hamas. Hamas started this war and also brought those attacks on the Palestinian people.

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