"There is no way they could have been considered combatants," said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."

Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month.

Those killed by the unmanned aerial vehicle in the rubble of the southern Gaza city appear to be unarmed teenagers or young men. According to a translation of the coverage, they were not identified in the reporting.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka’s U.S. policy fellow, said: “This is among the worst footage I’ve seen. Not only were these boys clearly unarmed and present no threat whatsoever, but they were struck multiple times even after stumbling/crawling away. There is no way they could have been considered combatants. This is unreal.”

  • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    8 months ago

    Killing obvious civilians is a warcrime. While there are circumstances where this is ambiguous, this example isn’t - Israel needs to overcome the very reasonable conclusion that these were civilians and prove that they were enemy combatants.

    Understanding that 60-70% of the Palestinians Israel have killed are children, this will be a tall order.

      • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        The video shows 4 people in civilian clothes casually wandering along chatting while unarmed.

        Putting aside the thousands upon thousands literal children Israel has slaughtered in the past few months while spewing genocidal rhetoric (because Hamas?), what evidence do you have that this isn’t a warcrime and that they’re combatants? The video contains absolutely nothing suggesting anything of the sort, and no evidence has been presented.

        When people say they want to commit a genocide, then kill tens of thousands of civilians, I tend to believe them - why are you so incredulous?

        • TheControlled@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          8 months ago

          Stop being hung up on the unarmed thing. All the badguys in movies are armed to make it clear to the audience and make it “justified”. Unarmed soldiers and military personnel make up a much larger chunk of casualties than you realize. Terrorists don’t just toss their guns to the side and claim immunity. They are still targets.

          Anyway, I’ve made my points clear, I’ve explained various things using traceable, sound logic. You seem to have to not read it or comprehended it. I’m not going to waste my time with unreasonable, volatile people.

          • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            Literally zero evidence that this killing is justified in the context of a genocide that the Israeli government and IDF won’t shut up about, where the majority of their targets are women and children.

            Don’t go pretending you know a thing about reason or that you’ve made any meaningful point whatsoever.

            • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              Where’s the evidence justifying the killing of these people? Or do we not care about the rule of law?

              I guess in the context of the genocide Israel is committing there’s not much room for that kind of thing.

          • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            8 months ago

            You kill a bunch of people, you’d better be damn sure it’s justifiable - you know - by looking at the evidence. Basic rule of law stuff.

            Where’s the evidence? We both know there isn’t any - much like there’s nothing that would justify Israel’s broader genocide.

            How do you think evidence works?

              • WaxedWookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                8 months ago

                Feel free to reach out if you’d like to take a break from defending warcrimes by a genocidal regime and provide any evidence.

                • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
                  11·
                  8 months ago
                  • Not a proven warcrime
                  • Provide evidence of what??

                  Now you’re just repeating the same words over and over again with no correlation. Holy shit. Did I get baited into a “discussion” with ChatGPT 1.0? There’s no other explanation

      • Prandom_returns@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        8 months ago

        I think that person has very strong pre-concieved notions… At this point a rock on the ground is “evidence” to them that the rock is in cahoots with Israel, because children in Gaza, because obviously.

        That video is evidence of nothing, but certain death of 4 unknown people, at an unknown location, recorded at unknown point in time.

        Again, disclaimer: There’s an active genocide in Gaza, performed by Israel against Palestinians. Hamas is a terrorist organisation.