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A video, discovered on the cellphone of a paramedic who was found along with 14 other aid workers in a mass grave in Gaza in late March, shows that the ambulances and fire truck that they were traveling in were clearly marked and had their emergency signal lights on when Israeli troops hit them with a barrage of gunfire.

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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 121 points 1 week ago

Israel shooting medics, throwing them in a mass grave and then lying about it? Better not talk about it, or we might be labelled as antisemites and/or terrorist supporters.

[–] thedruid@lemmy.world 98 points 1 week ago (5 children)

somehow this went from defending themselves against terrorist's, to them becoming terrorists as well

[–] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 106 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The state of Israel was founded by genocidal terrorists

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Religion as a concept and religious states are nothing short of fascism. It doesn't matter if the upmost entity is fictional, and the power is actually wielded by kings or popes and such, or if it's Hitler, at the end it's all the same: A way to suppress and mass murder anyone and anything that doesn't please the Führer(s).

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 50 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always been like this, but more importantly: The IDF aren't (at least primarily) terrorists; they're a Jewish Wehrmacht launching a war of extermination on the people of Gaza. Calling that terrorism implies that they're equal to Hamas rather than subjecting Palestinians one of the worst crimes a state can commit.

[–] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Literally.

In 1948, both Irgun and Lehi disbanded and merged into the newly formed IDF, though some former members later entered israeli politics. (Yitzhak Shamir: Prime Minister of israel (1983–84, 1986–92). Initially Lehi’s operations chief, he later led the Likud party and upheld hardline Zionist policies)

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

the paramedic who filmed the video was later found with a bullet in his head in the mass grave. His name has not been disclosed yet because he has relatives living in Gaza concerned about Israeli retaliation

"We killed your son, and it came to light, so now we're going to kill you."

It's truly hard to fathom the depth of evil in isreal right now. And we're fucking funding it. We're arming them, and paying them to continue. Meanwhile AIPAC continues to fund primaries against our politicians that speak out. The US is a fucking joke.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Yeah well if they're in Gaza Israel wants to (and eventually will) kill them regardless.

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 85 points 1 week ago (20 children)

I am astonished how silent the west is. Why not a single nation is required to conduct independent investigation and require accountability on Israel's side.

What happened on the 7th of October was horrible but it is not giving Israel a carte blanche to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

IDF members are war criminals. Isreal is genocidal state.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thats why I call it the IOZ (Israeli Occupied Zone), its not a country its a military occupation

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 77 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Israel will claim anything to not seem like genocidal maniacs. Seriously, fuck Netanyahu. The arrogance of killing CLEARLY marked aid workers, and claiming they weren’t marked is baffling.

[–] Apple87sagan@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Even in WWII soldiers would respect the red cross

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[–] raod_guitar@feddit.org 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What I don't get is that almost nothing is happening. They are systematically and blatantly committing the most atrocious warcrimes and there is no outcry by the nations. What they do in one day would be enough to denounce any weaker developing country. The west is showing once again that the international community is really all about control, capitalism and racism.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

How is it just blamed on "the west". China, India and other "Eastern" countries are in the UN as well. Would you not have to say it just shows they care nothing about the international community and it is really about their control and power as well? The world is watching executions around the world, and people are just being censored to/from it by their governments. Israel's biggest trading partner is China by far, almost twice the U.S. Not any huge press from them about stopping.

[–] raod_guitar@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago

Good point, I don't disagree. China doesn't have a history of writing human rights on their flags though.

[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The IDF is bombing UN buildings and people are still waffling on calling Israel a terrorist nation is hilarious.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I had to reread this a few times to understand that "waffling" means being hesitant.

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[–] CobraChicken3000@lemmy.ca 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'm no expert but that is a war crime

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pile of bodies in the mass grave or pile of war crimes and atrocities against humanity?

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I'm a lot closer to being an expert than most people and that's a war crime.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As well as withholding humanitarian aid and medical supplies during an ongoing war. But apparently no one cares about international law anymore or they do care selectively depending on the nation committing the war crimes.

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[–] perestroika@lemm.ee 54 points 1 week ago

At first a crime, then doubling down on the crime and making it a massacre, then destroying evidence and lying to everyone about the circumstances...

...I do wonder if there's something else the IDF needs to accomplish, for some countries to reconsider their support to Israel.

[–] HellsBelle 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'd like to know how all of us watching Israel kill thousands of Palestinians - and we do nothing to stop it - is any different than the world watching Germany kill Jews, gypsies, Poles, scientists, etc in WW2?

There. Is. No. Fucking. Difference.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There is a difference: we're helping to fund it.

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[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 20 points 1 week ago

incredibly disappointing that nations like Saudi Arabia and Turkey rather leverage this opportunity to militarise against fucking Syria and Yemen or Iran, and only go against Israel in words only, whilst selling or buying drones to or from Israel

Disappointed with everyone, especially with Germany for being this anti Palestinian

One of the things I say to my Jewish friends and family is, "explain to me how what Israel is doing - like cutting off food, water and medicine to an entire population of civilians it keeps in a ghetto is anything different that what the national socialist Germans did to the Warsaw Ghetto, because it looks like the exact same thing to me."

[–] GG@kbin.earth 50 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Of all countries on this earth, Israel is without doubt the nastiest, most cruel, least human, most bigoted, worst possible country of them all. The people who have chosen to move to Israel as outsiders are IMO just at responsible for any death of innocent children. Are you an American "Jew"? Well good for you. now fucking stay the fuck where you belong instead of terrorizing random families thousands of miles away under the excuse that you own their house or whatever fucking messed up crap you can come up with. I have edited this comment to remove a section which I was made aware is Anti-Semitic due to conflating Judaism with Zionism - thanks for making me aware. I got carried away and regret the harsh tone of the original comment.

[–] Barbarian 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are plenty of anti-Israeli Jews. Don't paint us all with the same brush.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I agree with much of what you're saying... But it's antisemitic to conflate judaism with zionism.

Zios can be jewish, christian, atheist, "muslim", etc. Conversely many jews are not zionist.

There's little reason to even talk about jewish people when the actual problem is the genocidal ideology of zionism.

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[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Y'know, I'm starting to think those Israelis are a bunch of fucking assholes.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

If they do just one more genocide I'm gonna start getting a little angry

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[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 43 points 1 week ago

Wow, even the NYT is reporting on it?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

A colleague lost his brother with this convoy. The path / location of the convoy was shared with the israelis too. They were executed and the vehicles completely destroyed.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 26 points 1 week ago

Same as the Hind Rajab case (and countless others). More than a year on Israel is still 'investigating'.

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

On a similar article, a lot of people on reddit were saying that they could be terrorist on disguise, therefore is on to kill them (attempt to) ask, and that's all good as per Geneva convention.

My reply was deleted, my account banned and my will to stay on that platforms eliminated.

[–] GreyAlien@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

reddit is absolutely unusable.

I got banned for similar behavior, but I still lurk there sometimes. Recently I read an upvoted comment along the lines of: "I would rather have the Nazi for government than live with these hamas supporters and wokists."

There are hundreds of other examples of how biased toward fascism this platform has become. From my understanding, many moderators of large subreddits (e.g., r/worldnews, r/mapporn, r/news, r/geopolitics) have been purged and replaced with state-affiliated actors like literal IOF soldiers.

ʕ ͡° ʖ̯ ͡°ʔ u/maxwellhill

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 18 points 1 week ago

A lot of fucked up things in all that, but them condoning killing civilians is apparently okay, but asking how Trump hasn't been killed yet for trying to turn USA into a fascist dictatorship gets you banned.

That's what got me here.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

r/worldnews is Israeli gov’t propaganda

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[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Zionists bending over backwards rationalizing their war crimes as just anti-terrorist attacks while they are invading another country is the ultimate mental 4D chess.

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[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Awesome to have these two headlines right next to each other in my feed:

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On

Senate Democrats overwhelmingly reject restricting US arms sales to Israel

the US Senate has resoundingly voted in support of continuing the genocide in Gaza by rejecting two resolutions aimed at blocking some $9 billion in weapons to the Israeli government.

Cory Booker, recently hailed in the corporate press for talking for 25 hours straight on the Senate floor—without blocking a vote on legislation or a Trump judicial nomination—voted against both resolutions.

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[–] BookSnob@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago

Death to the IDF

[–] Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I seriously think at some point a dirty bomb is going to go off in Tel Aviv based on the actions the Israelis take today.

[–] slugger@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago

Watch Til Kingdom Come. full doc is on youtude.

In 2017, when Trump's America abandoned the 2 state solution and went in full throated support of Israel with recognisation of Jerusalem, it was the spark that lead to this whole situation. Now that Trump is back in power, his Christian fundamentalist backers are sitting back and awaiting their rapture. Fucking crazy shit.

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