You’re twisting it. There’s zero credible proof the IDF goes around targeting kids. The IDF has rules of engagement and investigates civilian deaths. Hamas is the one hiding behind kids, firing from schools, hospitals, and houses, and putting civilians in danger on purpose.
When Hamas turns neighborhoods into launch sites, tragic things happen, but that’s on them. There’s a big difference between a combat mistake in a war zone and deliberately using kids as shields or teaching them to die for propaganda.
Trying to say the IDF and Hamas are “equally bad” isn’t balance, it’s simply shows moral confusion.
Zero credible evidence? Countless doctors, journalists and even IDFs own snipers have testified to targeting civilians .... that's not credible?
How is it a combat mistake to shoot a 4 year old in the head? Was it also a "combat mistake" when israeli soldiers murdered an entire ambulance crew and tried to burry the evidence?
When Israel occupies a territory illegally for +70 years tragic things happen, but that's on them. You see you can twist that argument around and it will make sense, but i try to avoid that because i don't think murdering civilians is ever acceptable despite the horrors israel has and is right now committing.
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Israeli soldiers are using Palestinian civilians as human shields in Gaza to enter and clear tunnels and buildings they suspect may have been booby-trapped, a leading Israeli NGO and newspaper have reported.
The practice was so widespread across different units fighting in Gaza that it could in effect be considered a “protocol”, said Nadav Weiman, the executive director of Breaking the Silence, a group founded by Israeli combat veterans to document military abuses.
The group has collected testimony describing the practice from veterans of the 10-month war in Gaza. The accounts they have heard match those reported in an investigation by the newspaper Haaretz, which claimed that the chief of staff’s office was aware of the practice.
“The senior ranks know about it,” one source said to have taken part in finding civilians to serve as human shields told the paper. “Our lives are more important than their lives,” Haaretz quoted commanders telling their soldiers.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/aug/14/israeli-forces-in-gaza-use-civilians-as-human-shields-against-possible-booby-traps