We don’t know that, that’s just what Israel claims. Israel is known to lie about that stuff.
We know Hamas fighters have been using the hospitals to stage rocket attacks, and fire out of. Whether there is an actual base of operations hidden in them is beyond the point, Hamas uses civilian infrastructure to fire at Israel from. They have said as much, they fight from among civilians to get Israel to kill civilians so Israel looks bad to the world. It’s how Hamas operates.
Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
There is video of weapons fire coming from hospitals, so we do have that.
And Hamas is constantly lying too, yet everyone on this site seems to eat up everything they say.
Thief_of_Crows@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Hamas has not lied as blatantly as Israel. The death tolls they have reported have typically been corroborated by later independent sources.
What does weapons fire actually imply in a territory subjected to constant bombing and siege warfare? It’s not like hospitals are safe from bombings and other attacks, so being armed in a gaza hospital is simply the intelligent thing to do
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Most independent sources I’ve seen reporting on numbers have been Palestinians. The UN is not reporting on casualties because it cannot verify any of the claimed numbers.
And Hamas lied about 500 Palestinians being killed in one attack on a hospital by Israel, except it turned out that attack was actually Islamic Jihadists misfiring, and nowhere near 500 people died.
Hamas verifiably made up that 5% of the casualties in this war, so no, you shouldn’t believe the rest of their numbers.
And Hamas has fired thousands of rockets into Israeli territory since Oct. 7th, that goes beyond defending yourself in a hospital.
And the bombing and siege warfare started after Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand civilians, and fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities.
bowcollector@lemmy.world 7 months ago
where is your citation?
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Of course it justifies it. Why wouldn’t it?
balp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Because of the geneva conventions about protections civilians.
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
There was an article on the active page of Lemmy yesterday with confirmation of Hamas fighting from a major hospital.
Glytch@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
So it should be easy for you to link it. That is, if it does prove your point and exists in the first place. Because right now your source is “trust me bro”.
Tavarin@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
i24news.tv/…/1699881898-idf-releases-footage-of-h…
aol.com/…/israel-clashes-hamas-major-hospital-162…