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Majority of Israeli’s killed on Oct 7th were military not civilians (x.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by LordBullingdon@hexbear.net to c/politics@hexbear.net

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If you read through the linked twitter thread it seems like it’s a significant majority too. Obviously this is totally contrary to what Israel has previously claimed.
I also suspect that many of the civilian deaths were caused by the IDF using them as cover, especially at the festival.
In any case, next time someone talks about indiscriminately killing civilians, you can point out that unlike the IDF, Hamas has predominantly and objectively focused on military targets

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Hiding behind a civilian vehicle full of civilians as a shield forcing your opponent to shoot through said civilians in order to shoot you is about as "human shield" as it possibly gets without physically grabbing someone.

Usually this "human shield" thing means stuff like parking vehicles/launch sites next to civilian buildings that you might hit with counter-rocket fire. But in this case they are quite literally putting them in front of themselves as actual physical shields.