• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    2 hours ago

    It wasn’t an armed conflict until they began it on October 7th.

    Whether or not Israel drove them to do it is another issue. I believe that’s what happened. But it doesn’t change the fact that I would not consider conscripts fair game in that situation because the situation itself is not a fair one.

    • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      9 minutes ago

      Of course there was armed conflict or do you think the apartheid and blockade of Gaza was enforced with bubblegum and rainbows?

    • Saleh@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      27 minutes ago

      An armed siege and occupation are armed conflicts.

      Just because there wasn’t active fighting at a time does not change the fact that at least one side established its position by force. To take the example of Crimea. Just because Russia moved in to occupy it quickly and there was little fighting, it is still an armed conflict. If Russia wouldn’t roam Crimea with its army, it wouldn’t hold control of it. The same is true for the siege of Gaza that Israel upheld before reinvading it.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        Sorry, I replied to you again without realizing you were the person who tried to lie about me being an Israel supporter. My mistake. I won’t reply again after this.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        2 hours ago

        That is a fact. There was no fighting going on at the time. It was not an armed conflict at the time. Just because they had an armed conflict at times before that doesn’t mean that was what was happening at that time.

        India and Pakistan have gone to war multiple times. That doesn’t mean they’re always at war.