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Israeli precision-guided munition likely killed group of children playing foosball in Gaza, weapons experts say | CNN (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The very best explanation is that they accurately targeted a Hamas operative and simply gave zero shits that it also meant killing 11 kids. Even that to me is unacceptable.

That's a very plausible explanation and I agree, completely unacceptable.

[–] OccamsTeapot 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah I mean it would be a better explanation if we had any evidence that a Hamas operative was killed. If none materializes, then we are forced to believe that Israel did this to kill the kids. Really, by "best" in context I meant "most charitable to Israel."

In any case, you do not fire a precision guided munition by accident, which means they did deliberately murder the children. They just (maybe) thought it was worth it to kill one "terrorist."

But yeah you're right, I'm sure most people who support Israel wouldn't say this is "acceptable" but they will certainly believe any excuse the IDF offers up with little critical thought and then bleat and moan about Hamas until we inevitably move on to the next atrocity. Remember Hind? Did we ever get an answer about that? Not that I know of.

[–] OccamsTeapot 3 points 7 months ago

CNN: Why did you kill the kids?

IDF:

“The collateral damage as described in the query is not known to the IDF.”

Excuse me for giving their half baked explanations zero weight as I draw my conclusion. They "didn't know" despite their supposed world class intelligence that there was a group of children playing a few metres away from the location of a precision strike that they did.

"Sorry officer, I was just firing my gun at a possum that was definitely there, I was totally unaware of the child stood in the line of fire." Sounds great bro, looking forward to seeing how that works out for you in court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No I'm sure the rocket hit exactly where it was intended to. I'm just not cynical enough to think murdering 11 children was the goal there. It takes an exceptionally evil individual to be able to do something like that. There's plenty to criticize Israel for but I think this kind of claim is taking it too far and I think it's the least likely explanation for this (but not impossible either)

[–] OccamsTeapot 2 points 7 months ago

Well if they weren't intending to kill the children they really painted themselves into a corner by using a precise munition to do it.

We have absolutely zero evidence that they were doing anything other than killing the kids. Just their word. At this point, why believe them?

Anyway, as always, we will never really know. We can throw it on the pile. With Hind and the thousands of others