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If your enemy is using civilians as human shields you still cannot attack the civilians being used. You find better tactics that limit that tactic. Refusing to do so makes you no better than your enemy. Both should be condemned.
For another example this is like a shooter hiding behind a hostage and the cops just shooting the hostage. That's murder.
It's just the trolley problem Moral dilemma in a very real and cruel application.
It's worse than that since in this case there is plenty of time to stop the trolley before it kills anyone.
"plenty of time" is pretty generous considering this whole thing started with an attack which killed over a thousand people.
No one should be surprised by this. It's been well known for a long time that Hamas uses civilian infrastructure to shield their operations, and civilians themselves as human shields.
Cool, still shouldn't bomb hospitals.
Two things...
First, as samokosik says, if it's being used militarily, it's a military target. But second - and more importantly - I never said Israel should bomb hospitals.
There is no "should" in this clusterfuck. Everyone is guilty. Hamas happens to be the most guilty in all this, and should definitely be eradicated, but Israel should never have oppressed the Gaza strip or deployed illegal "settlements." There is no good, clean solution now. Everything is fucked.
Are these the same tunnels IDF built when they occupied the area?
No, these are "terror tunnels," so they are different! If you put the word "terror" in front of something, it completely changes it.