Why is Israel bombing civvies and not military installations? Sounds like a war crime to me!
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The only moral question is whether Hamas has any right to use human shields, when there is worldwide acceptance of such use being illegitimate. There is no violation of international agreements by engaging the enemy, wherever the enemy is located.
Nor is the attacked party under any obligation to become a pretzel in order to avoid civilian casualties which were the responsibility of the attacker to preclude. It doesn't matter if Hamas was a government with a Pentagon, or mere rabble.
what do human shields have to do with bombing residential apartment complexes?
"only Israel is allowed to murder civilians!"
When Hamas sets up offices or headquarters in apartment complexes. The Israelis recently bombed a building at the local university, because it was being used for this purpose, as well as being an armory for ammunition. It is an old trick by the Ukrainians to use human shields, and Hamas is just borrowing the playbook, putting armed forces (a legitimate target) among civilians, and when they are bombed, cry "Israel is murdering civilians!" And gullible types sing their song.
does the same logic go for Hamas targeting civilians?
If a senior military commander lives in an apartment complex we can blow up the whole thing right? The whole block, no need to just stop at one building.
Or is that different?
Epstein ran a child trafficking ring from his apartment in Manhattan, should we blow up that building as well?
Private dwellings with no functional military presence would not count as a legitimate military target. But the Ukrainians shell only civilians without a second thought. And so did Hamas.
I think you are making light of this in order to ignore it. But it was not ignored when the Geneva and Hague treaties on conventions of war were negotiated. Human shields are forbidden. It is not permissible to position anti-aircraft guns on top of hospitals, or store munitions in factories, or set up command centers in university buildings, or fighting teams in apartments. What's the penalty? The opponent always has a right to target military forces or equipment, no matter where they are. The Russians have been scrupulous about this in Ukraine. I'm not sure how scrupulous the Israelis are, but since the Gazans democratically chose Hamas to be their government, they have signed up for all the backblast the actions of Hamas provokes. "But they are innocent civilians!" Innocent of what? Certainly not innocent of approving, endorsing, supporting, and obeying outright terrorists. They are accomplices.