Quote (fender @ Oct 18 2023 11:14pm)
do you genuinely believe that cutting water and electricity to millions of people already living in destitution "targets" hamas, or would you agree that measures like that will predictably hit the weak and the vulnerable the hardest?
who do you think has an easier time evacuating, re-locating and surviving from constant air bombardments of densely settled residential areas (there are no fix "military targets" in gaza that you can precision strike with bombs, or israel is just reeeeally bad at using all their equipment): hamas combatants, or families with young children and elderly people.
is there any building, any "target" within gaza that you would NOT characterise as somehow at least connected to or benefitting hamas, and thus a valid "military target"?
in other words, is there anything short of EXCLUSIVELY targeting and slaughtering children (something even the disgusting hamas terrorists did not, they indiscriminately killed everyone - just like israel) that the IDF could do, that you would consider illegitimate?
The post I quoted talked about how many bombs Israel dropped, not cutting off water and electricity. I'm against Israel doing that, because it targets the whole population indiscriminately, unlike the bombs they drop. But I'd also add that maybe Hamas could divert some of the funds from the millions of dollars of military equipment they use to murder(or try to murder) Jewish civilians, into building infrastructure of their own so they don't have to rely on Israel's good will for electricity and water.
Well, that's an interesting question, because Hamas intentionally uses buildings civilians are at in order to hide from IDF bombs. When Hamas uses an apartment building for military purposes, who should get the moral blame when it is bombed?
Israel has a right to self-defense. They have a terrorist group on their border who just massacred civilians. The moral blame for collateral damage is on Hamas, as long as Israel is intending to target those terrorists.