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commandos into a hospital dressed as medics and Muslim women to assassinate sleeping patients in their bed.
This is perfect news for the Hamas chiefs. Israeli atrocities in the West Bank are exactly the reaction they wanted. Maximum outrage, with international support for Israel being reduced every day. More players are being drawn into the war.
But I don't see how this can end well for Hamas. Can anyone see a possible chain reaction which threatens the existence of Israel? Aren't we going to end up with Palestinian deaths in six figures but with Israel intact?
nick_h.-
Hamas leaders are religious
fanatics, and at least one of them has said he thinks he’ll be killed and that he’s lived too long. They might not need further justification beyond their belief that it’s their gods will.Reuters has now picked up the hospital story. No insignia immediately apparent, but it is how Israel’s assassination squads have operated (all over the world) for decades now.
Leshaches
Israel is making it difficult to defend their claim that they’re not breaking the Geneva Convention when they send commandos dressed as medics and Muslim women into a hospital to assassinate sleeping patients in their beds.
Shooting people in the head on their hospital bed certainly sends a message.
Adding- feigning civilian status to kill an enemy (especially feigning to be a medic) is considered perfidy, and is a war crime. A simple Israeli flag shoulder patch slapped on before the tactical action (i.e., use of force) begins is/can be enough to remove the element of perfidy (imo), and transforms the perfidious killing into a lawful assassination. It isn’t clear whether or not the Israelis bothered.