No. Even IF that’s true (again, enormous if), the war crime is definitely the bombing of civilians, not hiding from people who want to kill you. I’m not saying that the Hamas aren’t heinous terrorists, but that doesn’t excuse the wholesale slaughter of innocents.
Especially since it only INCREASES hostilities, leading to more civilian deaths on both sides of the border.
Um, you’re wrong, it’s known as Perfidy and is a violation of Protocol 1 Article 37 of the Geneva Convention
It is prohibited to kill, injure or capture an adversary by resort to perfidy. Acts inviting the confidence of an adversary to lead him to believe that he is entitled to, or is obliged to accord, protection under the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, with intent to betray that confidence, shall constitute perfidy. The following acts are examples of perfidy:
(a) The feigning of an intent to negotiate under a flag of truce or of a surrender;
(b) The feigning of an incapacitation by wounds or sickness;
(d) The feigning of protected status by the use of signs, emblems or uniforms of the United Nations or of neutral or other States not Parties to the conflict.
This response is the equivalent of a child saying nuh uh and walking off. Also, no one said that it did excuse the war crimes committed by the IDF. The problem I have is that you’re clearly misrepresenting Hamas as innocent.
This response is the equivalent of a child saying nuh uh and walking off.
You want me to elaborate about how false what you’re saying is? Walking off rather than continuing to waste my time and effort on the likes of you sounds tempting, though.
Also, no one said that it did excuse the war crimes committed by the IDF
That’s not true. You heavily implied as much and the other apartheid defender flat out said so.
The problem I have is that you’re clearly misrepresenting Hamas as innocent.
I’m doing no such thing. I’m always clear about the fact that Hamas are heinous terrorists guilty of atrocities.
That doesn’t justify any of IDF’s atrocities like you’re pretending that you’re not implying, though.
Hiding isn’t a war crime. Trying to blend in with a civilian population while you’re an active combatant, however, is. Precisely because it makes strikes with mass civilian casualties a military necessity.
The war crime is hiding there in the first place.
No. Even IF that’s true (again, enormous if), the war crime is definitely the bombing of civilians, not hiding from people who want to kill you. I’m not saying that the Hamas aren’t heinous terrorists, but that doesn’t excuse the wholesale slaughter of innocents.
Especially since it only INCREASES hostilities, leading to more civilian deaths on both sides of the border.
Um, you’re wrong, it’s known as Perfidy and is a violation of Protocol 1 Article 37 of the Geneva Convention
That’s not what they’re doing, though. And even if they were, that would still NOT excuse the war crimes of the IDF.
This response is the equivalent of a child saying nuh uh and walking off. Also, no one said that it did excuse the war crimes committed by the IDF. The problem I have is that you’re clearly misrepresenting Hamas as innocent.
You want me to elaborate about how false what you’re saying is? Walking off rather than continuing to waste my time and effort on the likes of you sounds tempting, though.
That’s not true. You heavily implied as much and the other apartheid defender flat out said so.
I’m doing no such thing. I’m always clear about the fact that Hamas are heinous terrorists guilty of atrocities.
That doesn’t justify any of IDF’s atrocities like you’re pretending that you’re not implying, though.
Hiding isn’t a war crime. Trying to blend in with a civilian population while you’re an active combatant, however, is. Precisely because it makes strikes with mass civilian casualties a military necessity.
Two things can be war crimes.