• hassanmckusick@lemmy.discothe.quest
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    1 year ago

    Cutting off power to Palestinians is also a war crime. Why are war crimes only bad when Palestine does them an not when Israel does them 5x as often?

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      1 year ago

      Literally the first thing the US does in any engagement is cut the power.

      It’s not a war crime lol

      With certain limitations, parts of a country’s electrical grid can be considered legitimate targets if they are used to power military facilities. This is true even if the targets have a civilian as well as a military purpose, so long as destroying the object would “offer a definite military advantage”

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        1 year ago

        Israeli authorities’ cutting off electricity to Gaza and other punitive measures against Gaza’s civilian population would amount to unlawful collective punishment, which is a war crime, said the Human Rights Watch on 9 October.

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          1 year ago

          Human Rights Watch is an activist group with no authority.

          You are free to agree or disagree with them. Clearly I disagree here, but I do agree with their condemnation of the Palestinian attacks.

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        1 year ago

        As if the US gives a single fuck about war crimes. If we did, at least 5 people from George W. Bush’s administration would be rotting in prison right now.

        Yes, it’s still a war crime when we do it.