An extraordinary warning call to a Palestinian dentist starts the panicked evacuation of a Gazan neighbourhood.

By Alice Cuddy BBC News, Jerusalem

The call to Mahmoud Shaheen came at dawn.

It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.

He’d been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.

He’d heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. “You need to escape,” somebody in the street shouted, “because they will bomb the towers”.

  • jabjoeEnglish
    1·
    8 months ago

    Yes I’m sure they do. However the answer isn’t to respond with more war crimes. It just keeps escalating and innocent people keep dying. It also feeds the nutters on both sides, swelling their numbers and influence.

      • jabjoeEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Other than as part of collective punishment, I don’t think colocated facility is especially contentious.

        Edit: I read chocolate and cut and passed it because I thought chocolated was amusing. Tired dyslexic brain text processing. Co-located does remove some of the protections.

        • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
          11·
          8 months ago

          So your definition of “war crime” is unique and different from the Geneva Conventions definition of war crimes.

          So when you say :

          However the answer isn’t to respond with more war crimes.

          What yiu need to realize is that people arent responding to war crimes with more war crimes. Theyre responding with force which is much less violent than what the Geneva Conventions would allow them to respond with.

          • jabjoeEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            I had read chocolated and was amused. Yes, colated does remove some of the protection. But Israel has to prove that. There will be problems if there is no evidence and/or internal doubts from intelligence appear.

            • mwguy@infosec.pubOPEnglish
              11·
              8 months ago

              For the most part they have shown and told this war. More than they have historically. And in the case of Al Shifa, that being a dual use hospital has been well known and documented for years in the press.

              • jabjoeEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                This is revenge. It will just create a whole new generation of Hamas. It won’t help peace. The previous peace wasn’t really peace but dominance. For real peace, to stop the murder of both sides, there needs to be a peace process. The nutters of sides need to be sidelined and even face a just justice system.