Pope slams 'cruelty' of strike killing Gaza children
Issued on: 21/12/2024 - 23:33 Modified: 21/12/2024 - 23:31
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20241221-pope-slams-cruelty-of-strike-killing-gaza-children
A comment by Israeli officials:
"Cruelty is terrorists hiding behind children while trying to murder Israeli children; cruelty is holding 100 hostages for 442 days, including a baby and children, by terrorists and abusing them," the Israeli statement said.
The terrorists who are "hiding behind children" are not cruel to them. Nor are they at present trying to murder Israeli children. It is not a given that 40 children on that October 7th were killed by Hamas, and there seem to have been no new October 7th since then. A Hamasnik is not able to murder any Israelis, children or otherwise, while hiding in tunnels. To make an October 7th style attack, he needs to leave the tunnels. To launch a rocket, he needs to stick out at least his head and his bazooka from the tunnels. As long as a Hamasnik is under the civilians, in a tunnel, he is for the moment not doing any harm to Israelis, except the rare harm that could be being done to hostages, and that harm cannot be stopped by killing the civilians above them with a bomb.
It's not a double standard to state "do not target civilians" ... it is also not a double standard to not adress that to Hamas, since, on October 7th, they were not listening to the world, and since, after October 7th, there seem to have been few Israeli causalties, except 260 Israeli soldiers. As of 10 December, 2024, sources used by the wikipedians behind the article:
Casualties of the Israel–Hamas war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Israel%E2%80%93Hamas_war
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