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Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza

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1332 points Qem | 3 comments | 16 Sep 25 08:24 UTC | HN request time: 1.199s | source
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dotancohen[dead post] ◴[16 Sep 25 20:48 UTC] No.45267828[source]▶
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epolanski ◴[16 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45267845[source]▶
While you do have points that these UN bodies do seem to sleep more often than not, one should never, under any circumstance attempt to suggest that what's happening in Gaza aren't crimes against humanity.

A friend of mine is in the Red Cross staff, they had more than 20 casualties since 2021 in Palestine. Their staff was literally shot at because they were doctors.

It's sickening.

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dotancohen ◴[16 Sep 25 21:05 UTC] No.45268035[source]▶
Which side do you think has an interest in shooting doctors?

I'll help you with that. It's not the side that would regularly take Gazan children into Israel for medical treatment before the Gazans started a war against Israeli children. Or do Israeli children mean nothing? Because I personally know two women whose children were burned to death on October 7th.

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epolanski ◴[16 Sep 25 21:09 UTC] No.45268086[source]▶
> Which side do you think has an interest in shooting doctors?

The one shooting doctors.

What happened on October 7 has been a tragedy. 38 children died that day, and you know two of the mothers. I can't even relate with their suffering, in no way I can understand their pain like you do.

But I don't know either any mothers of the 32'000 killed and wounded on the other side.

"One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this."

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dotancohen[dead post] ◴[16 Sep 25 21:27 UTC] No.45268308[source]▶
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1. ViewTrick1002 ◴[16 Sep 25 21:40 UTC] No.45268489[source]▶
We should not call a genocide a genocide because you personally have been impacted by the latest trigger of a long conflict?

I can never understand your pain but for me this reads like bloodlust coming from revenge. That is a path that will never lead to an end of bloodshed.

Given the actions of the Netanyahu government continuously siding with actions prolonging the genocide despite whatever action Hamas takes what do you propose?

What do you think of the colonialists/settlers/occupiers on the West Bank stealing Palestinian land and forcing people from their homes?

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2. latentcall ◴[16 Sep 25 23:49 UTC] No.45269811{4}[source]▶
I can find you videos of mangled Palestinian children recorded every single day since October 8th 2023. So tell me, does October 7th in your eyes justify a war against civilians?

And if you’re about to tell me it isn’t a war against civilians, it should be easily provable by IDF videos of firefights with Hamas on a daily basis since October 8th 2023. However the videos I have seen have targeted civilians and civilian infrastructure.

3. epolanski ◴[16 Sep 25 23:49 UTC] No.45269815{4}[source]▶
> One of the first Hamas Gopro videos of October 7th was the shooting of an ambulance

Nobody's ever denied that October 7th was a tragedy and that similar things happened. Not even once.

Don't get your point besides "if some of us suffered, it's fine to inflict 1000x the suffering on anybody associated, related or even just in proximity of those who caused us the suffering".

> It's not reckoning

I've never seen a war in which only one side has an army, and the other one loses almost exclusively civilians.