• EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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    Wow, that’s a lotta war crimes. I think I count at least 5 different ones committed. Multiple counts of Perfidy, attack of persons hors de combat, multiple counts of attack of civilians/civilian objects, violation of rule 14 on proportionality of attack, violation on rule 15 on principle of precautions in attack.

    Also, gosh wonder what would happen if you pulled a gun in a hospital in the US, which theoretically isn’t even an active war zone. I’ve been in an American hospital twice during an active shooter event and the shooter got smoked both times before cops even set foot in the building.

    Walking into a hospital dressed as a doctor and smoking three security guards is not the badass military op you think it is. Three patients, even more despicable.

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      I’ve been in an American hospital twice during an active shooter event

      Jesus fucking Christ. My condolences for living in this hell.

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        The funniest part is, I don’t. I’m Canadian. I’ve just been unlucky enough to be on a hospital campus in the US twice when some idiot decided to attack perhaps the second or third worst possible place to attack in the US after perhaps a police station or a military base.

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          Well in that case you still have my condolences for having to visit this hellhole.

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      This is a straight up comical level of war crimes.

      This is like the picture of the actress intentionally trying ro break every style guidline with a single photo, it would be hard to come up with a scenario in which you were committing more war crimes at once.

      This is so many war crimes it legit seems like the point was to committ as many as humanly possible to demonstrate you can get away with it.

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        This is so many war crimes it legit seems like the point was to committ as many as humanly possible to demonstrate you can get away with it.

        i choose to believe this to keep myself sane. it’s a flex. big daddy U.S. is openly encouraging and protecting this.

        the cool thing is at least the world is finally recognizing there is no actual “rules based order” but now it’s becoming a “brutal domination based order”

        the nazis basically won, yada yada yada

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            yeah but the veneer is now going away. the rules are being burned in a trashcan in full view of the actual, real international community.

            the U.S. and it’s vassals are a step away from full roman styled Imperium and Dominum backed by “what are you going to do about it you know we are crazy enough to nuke you all”

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netM
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        Yes. This falls under protocol I of the Geneva Convention.

        Article 37. – Prohibition of perfidy

        1. 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;
           (c) The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status; and
           (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.
          

        Healthcare providers and patients alike are always considered civilian, non-combatants.

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    A literal war crime. From the Geneva Convention:

    Article 37. – Prohibition of perfidy

    1. 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:

    […]

    © The feigning of civilian, non-combatant status;

    And, if they dressed up with the Red Cross symbol:

    Article 38. – Recognized emblems

    1. It is prohibited to make improper use of the distinctive emblem of the red cross, red crescent or red lion and sun or of other emblems, signs or signals provided for by the Conventions or by this Protocol. It is also prohibited to misuse deliberately in an armed conflict other internationally recognized protective emblems, signs or signals, including the flag of truce, and the protective emblem of cultural property.
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    The reporting that one of the men had a gun while literally doing assassinations in a hospital. This is cartoon villainy.

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    BBC had an article about this that spent 3 paragraphs talking about October 7, Hamas & Islamic Jihad saying their comrades were the ones killed, and doesn’t question for a second the legality of dressing as doctors to carry out an attack inside a hospital.

    england-cool