An Israeli airstrike on a hospital in Gaza has killed five people, including a Hamas political leader and Palestinian medics, Hamas has said, in an attack that Israel said had targeted a key figure in the militant group.
The Gaza health ministry said the strike hit the surgery department at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis. The Israeli military said its attack followed extensive intelligence and used precise munitions to minimise harm at the site.
Hamas said a member of its political office, Ismail Barhoum, had been killed.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, confirmed the target was Barhoum. The military did not name the target, which it described only as “a key terrorist” in Hamas.
Blatant war crime.
Who are the other 4+ people killed in this attack ON A HOSPITAL??
Dude, the target was a civilian, a non-combatant. Killing non-combatants is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions
Both Bardaweel and Barhoum were members of the 19-member Hamas decision-making body, the political office
Killing members of a government at war is something else than killing civilians.
They’re still civilians. Only enemy combatants can be killled under international law. Otherwise I assume that you’d be okay if Hamas planned a suicide bombing inside the Knesset? And also, even if he was a legal target, he enjoys the same protection as other wounded do if he’s being treated at a hospital.
The Knesset also contains people opposed to the war. I don’t see how such an attack would bring a military advantage.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule8
In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose partial or total destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.
Killing Hamas civilian leaders in charge of internal security, meaning they also hunt Israeli spies, would bring an obvious military advantage.
Attacking the Israeli defense ministry or border police, the prime minister, or the cabinet could be justified as giving a military advantage.
Now, I’m not sure if civilian leadership of the armed forces count as combatants or not. However an attack should be covered by the above. IANAL of course.
Don’t get me wrong. Israel certainly commits war crimes, I’m not sure this was one.
First off that quote is talking about objects, not people. These rules are more stringent for people because they’re people.
The Knesset also contains people opposed to the war. I don’t see how such an attack would bring a military advantage.
The Hamas political office also might.
Killing Hamas civilian leaders in charge of internal security, meaning they also hunt Israeli spies, would bring an obvious military advantage.
Knesset is also in charge of internal security through the ministers they appoint. That aside it would help cause domestic chaos, which would be a definite military advantage.
Don’t get me wrong. Israel certainly commits war crimes, I’m not sure this was one.
Don’t get me wrong it’s a war crime either way because it’s an attack on a wounded person on a hospital (it would be unequivocally a war crime for Hamas to kill, say, Ben Gvir if he was being treatrd in a hospital); we’re talking about whether killing that person was in and of its own a war crime.
At least one was a teenager…
As is almost always the case in this genocide. This isn’t “Hamas using people as human shields” like Bibi claims. This is the IDF using all of Gaza as live targets.
how the fuck is israel not up on war crimes charges? That is fucked, bombing a hospital.
They are.
On 21 November 2024, following an investigation of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two senior Israeli officials, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Yoav Gallant, the former Minister of Defense of Israel, alleging responsibility for the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts during the Gaza war. The warrant against Netanyahu is the first against the leader of a Western-backed democratic country for war crimes.
125 ICC member states are now required to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant if they enter their territory, including France and the United Kingdom.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_arrest_warrants_for_Israeli_leaders
Oh. That’s OK then. It killed a hamas so striking a hospital is absolutely fine and the four other people don’t matter. Like at all. Yeh. They said the hospital was already demolished, so don’t worry about it. AT ALL.
JUST STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
The "international rules-based order no longer exists (maybe it never really existed on the first place). International law isn’t murky here, it’s crystal clear: Israel is committing (yet another) war crime, they’re not even trying to hide it, and the US, the UK, Australia, and a number of other “western democracies” are just looking the other way.
Fuck Israel. Fucking rogue terrorist state.
Best buddy to the US.
Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV said Barhoum was being treated at the hospital for wounds sustained in a previous attack.
Still a war crime, Israel.
Wait, who’s the terrorist in this story? j/k, I know.
Israel a year ago: we would never bomb a hospital!
Israel a 3 months later: hospitals are Hamas bases!
Israel a year later: We bombed a hospital we killed this wounded politician who was even not in the armed wing of Hamas. And 5 other people including children. Are we not amazing!
Kudos to the Western media apparatus collectively omitting that that bombing even a wounded soldier in a hospital is a war crime. Put Hamas in the title!
Israeli strike at Gaza hospital kills five including
Hamas political leaderteenage boy.Here’s an accurate headline that you’ll never see from imperial news.
We can only imagine who the other victims might have been.
