mozz OP , 1 month ago

This has more to do with how Hamas are deliberately embedding themselves within civilians

"Deliberately"?

Can you lay out for me what you think members of Hamas should do in order to avoid being "embedded" in this way? Should they, for example, abandon their residences as individuals and go to live somewhere else where there are no people, so they can be clearly identified as enemy combatants, so that Israel won't be tempted into destroying the entire apartment building where is their private residence?

Would this also have applied to, for example, Jewish resistance fighters during the holocaust? Would it be reasonable to say that someone in the Warsaw ghetto who has weapons is "embedded" in the civilian population there, and shares some responsibility if innocent people in the ghetto are killed during the uprising?

preventing them from fleeing

Citation?

I actually think Hamas is a deeply corrupt and violent organization; most bad things that someone would say about them, I probably would agree with. Trying to use that as some kind of excuse for "and that's why it's their fault that Israel is indiscriminately bombing, shooting, and starving an entire civilian population even the most well-armed of which pose a very minor threat to them" isn't something I'll agree with.

the IDF deciding to deliberately murder children

Here's video of the IDF shooting two children including an 8 year old

Here's the IDF killing 11 children in a refugee camp

Here's the IDF attacking a school and killing children

Should I keep going? I can, if you want to try to paint the idea that the IDF is deliberately killing children as in any way untrue or exaggerated.

I am not aware of any other armed forces going even remotely to the same lengths to warn civilians as the IDF

Did you read the Foreign Affairs article I linked to? It goes into quite a bit of detail about this claim from a dispassionate and evidence based perspective.

which Palestinians trust so much that they are standing within meters of a marked building

Can you give some instances? E.g. link to a video where Palestinians are standing calmly next to a building which is being attacked by the IDF, trusting that they won't be harmed?

Your second link does not support your claim that Israel said they are only killing Hamas.

They said civilian casualties are very very low. I interpret that as meaning that most of the thousands of dead people are Hamas fighters. No?

What would be your assessment of the number of people killed in the fighting and what amount of them are Hamas vs innocent men vs innocent women or children? Just trying to get a frame of reference of what you think / assert is happening.