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Israeli snipers shooting at ‘every moving object’ | Israeli snipers shoot dead 21 Palestinians as Khan Younis hospital attacked (aje.io)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by snek to c/[email protected]

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No full article for this yet, but it's on the AlJazeera Live Updates Page

In case the link doesn't work well on mobile, here is the news:

Israeli snipers shooting at ‘every moving object’

As we reported earlier, Israeli snipers killed at least 21 people in Khan Younis in the south of Gaza, where displaced Palestinians were gunned down trying to reach Nasser Hospital.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Rafah, says that Israeli snipers are surrounding the area of Nasser Hospital and “shooting at every moving object” as people are trying to reach it from the two densely populated residential neighbourhoods from the eastern and the western part of the hospital.

“The area around the hospital is very dangerous, and it has turned into a combat zone,” he said, noting that the hospital area is the only place right now in Khan Younis that has some water left.

EDIT: link to full article is here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/9/israeli-snipers-kill-21-civilians-outside-gazas-besieged-nasser-hospital

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah that ICJ ruling sure did a lot to stop Israeli aggression.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ICJ: "Hey guys, can you not doing anything genocide-y while we're trying to find out if you were doing a genocide?"

Israel: "Fuck you."

[–] fastandcurious 8 points 9 months ago

“Please don’t commit genocide, Thank you!”

Tbh I wonder what’s gonna stop these guys at this point, talk is definitely not gonna do it anymore

[–] guriinii 43 points 9 months ago

Pure evil.

[–] StarshotJohn 39 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A shop near my house has a sign out front with the American and Israel flags and says "pray for Israel." It just blows my mind.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well you can also pray for Israel to stop

[–] AFaithfulNihilist 5 points 9 months ago

That would be a good protest sticker to add as an amendment. Just the words "to stop the slaughter"

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Why are they doing this?

[–] ButtCheekOnAStick 73 points 9 months ago

Genocide

[–] [email protected] 70 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Settler-colonialism requires terrorism and mass killing to work. The goal at this point is to make Gaza uninhabitable so that every Palestinian is either forced to flee or die.

[–] MotoAsh 53 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Otherwise known as Ethnic Cleansing, or a genocide if mass death is involved.

Israel is purposefully committing a genocide.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And every country that de-funded UNRWA is an accomplice.

And if you notice, all the countries that de-funded UNWRA are either former colonial powers or settler-colonies.

Because settler-colonialism requires genocide.

[–] MotoAsh 9 points 9 months ago

and conservatives are trying to conserve the institutions that think colonialism is a neat way to get rich.

Conservatism is literally a terrorist ideology, and humanity NEEDS to realize it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago

At one point they were like we are half assing this, then they realized they should 100% ass it and yell ‘your anti-semitic’ to anyone,

[+] Potatofish -10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's impossible to know based on these 'reports'

[–] OccamsTeapot 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

What would be an acceptable reason? These "reports" seem quite damning. With snipers. No collateral damage necessary. And yet here we are

[+] Potatofish -6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's not about acceptance. I want facts. I want to know why. Journalism is not a game of yelling and pointing, it's about giving the whole story. This 'news' is like your racist uncle on Facebook spouting nonsense.

[–] OccamsTeapot 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's not about acceptance. I want facts. I want to know why.

Maybe you missed the point of the question. Can you imagine any possible reason why that would make this ok? What justification could there possibly be? Not even in the realm of facts, just theoretically speaking.

Journalism is not a game of yelling and pointing, it's about giving the whole story. This 'news' is like your racist uncle on Facebook spouting nonsense.

I just want to address this because people say it a lot. Basically all news about "events that occurred" come from "reports," unless there is public documentation or photo/video evidence. In a war zone this is totally normal. There is literally no other way to find out what is going on. It's not like there are researchers on the scene collecting data and getting it peer reviewed before putting it on CNN.

Is there any reason you think that these people making these first hand reports are lying?

[+] Potatofish -7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No. Imagining is for your after school sesame street shows, this is for facts. Anything else is a waste of time.

Journalism is research. Posting random videos is TikTok.

[–] OccamsTeapot 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Imagining is for your after school sesame street shows

Thinking about things is really quite useful.

Journalism is research. Posting random videos is TikTok.

What if you post it on an established mainstream news outlet who employs you and it shows real-time footage of the thing we're all trying to find out about?

[–] Potatofish -5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Just like images, realtime footage is useless without facts. This isn't kindergarten, journalism is investigation, not just posting videos.

[–] OccamsTeapot 1 points 9 months ago

[–] filister 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If there were any journalists left in Gaza, I wonder what is going on there... Where are all those journalists gone?!? Do I need to leave an (/s) or the sarcasm is obvious enough?

It seems like all those journalists are being also targeted by the most moral army in the world, I wonder why...

[–] Potatofish -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wut

[–] filister 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

https://cpj.org/2024/02/journalist-casualties-in-the-israel-gaza-conflict/ I will just leave this here

[–] Potatofish -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And?

[–] filister 2 points 9 months ago

Targeting journalists and preventing them from showing what is happening in Gaza is part of the dehumanization effort of Israel to portray Palestinians as a faceless crowd.

And the fact that Israel is getting a pass is just showing how biased and hypocritical our society is.

[–] snek 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Is this some form of emotional protection against admitting this is heartless genocide?

All news are reports, my dude

https://youtu.be/gbbVXW7OF8s?feature=shared

[–] Potatofish -4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No, dude, this is due diligence that must be adhered to by supposed news organizations. Clearly all they are posting is click bait and rage bait.

[–] snek 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This isn't ragebait though. Your assessment is baseless.

[–] Potatofish -5 points 9 months ago

Your response is baseless. It's clearly rage bait because it has zero information.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

"...the only place right now in Khan Younis that has some water left." what the actual fuck.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Moving objects also include animals:

Israeli snipers target sheep in Gaza

[–] okamiueru 8 points 9 months ago

Legitimate military targets as it might feed a potential terrorist. And even if it didn't, not killing it might allow for a surplus of food, in such a way as to benefit terrorists.

/s, but probably not far from their reasoning, for what is actually state sponsored terrorism.

[–] Linkerbaan 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They shot a doctor In the operating room during surgery what the fuck