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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

This post and multiple comments are being reported, so I'm making a top post to be 100% clear on this:

The facts of the issue are not in dispute. Israel did send an undercover team into a hospital to assassinate legitimate military targets. They admit to it and we have surveilance camera footage confirming it.

Problem #1 - Patients in hospitals, either ill or injured, are a protected class under the Geneva Conventions. You cannot run an assassination operation in a hospital, that's a war crime. Even if the targets are legitimately bad people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_neutrality

"The First Geneva Convention states that there should be no “obstacle to the humanitarian activities” and that wounded and sick “shall be respected and protected in all circumstances.”[4]

Article 18 demands that medical units, i.e. hospitals and mobile medical facilities, may in no circumstances be attacked.[5]

Problem #2 - Dressing as civilians, doctors, and women to engage in a military operation is is SEPARATE war crime called "perfidy".

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v2/rule65?country=us#sectioni

"(4) One may commit an act of treachery or perfidy by, for example, feigning an intent to negotiate under a flag of truce or a surrender or feigning incapacitation by wounds or sickness or feigning a civilian, non-combatant status or feigning a protected status by the use of signs, emblems, or uniforms of the United Nations or a neutral State or a State not party to the conflict."

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 2 years ago

They bombed entire hospitals and the world community didn't bat an eye, so they thought that the Geneva convention doesn't apply to them

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