Die Untersuchung von NBC News zeigt, dass Israel Angriffe auf Gebiete im Gazastreifen durchführt, von denen es behauptet, sie seien sicher

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1. It doesn’t take a genius to realize this scenario played out…

   Israel: This area over here is safe, and we will not conduct military actions in this area.

   Hamas: I wonder where we can move our assets to where Israel will not shoot at us.

2. Israel never said that these places would be 100% immune from attack. When Israel evacuated Gazans from areas of operations it was to get them away from the places of highest intensity, not at all a guarantee for total safety, but definitely increased safety. Rafah and several central camps are the only places that the IDF hasn’t maneuvered into and where Hamas still has some mass of forces and operations. They still fire rockets from there, and they are preparing there as well for the next maneuver.

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4. This didn’t really even need an investigation. I mean duhhh it’s Israel.

5. I’m sorry to be so cold, but free the hostages and the war ends.

6. You mean the humanitarian zone that Hamas used to fire rockets? Weird how that was left out of the title. 

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8. No shit, Gaza is an active warzone. No place in an active warzone is “safe”.

   There’s “Safer than this area over here,” but these safe zones were designated such because they’re places that were identified as not being hotbeds of Hamas activity so it’d be a lot safer for civilians to go there than to stay in the areas where the IDF had identified hundreds of Hamas fighters and was basically leveling with bombing runs.

   At no point did the IDF ever say “These are areas that we will not strike under any circumstances,” because that’d be fucking stupid to do when the city is still infested with Hamas. They wanted civilians to evacuate to these places because they were pretty sure Hamas wasn’t there. If Hamas turns out to be there, yeah they kinda have to strike. War sucks. It especially sucks when you’ve got civilians with a bunch of dudes trying to blend in with them and attack from civilian structures the way Hamas has been doing for decades. Innocent people are going to die and there’s only so much that can be done to prevent it. Israel is pretty clearly doing what they can to avoid catching innocent people in the crossfire, or the numbers of estimated civilian casualties would be a hell of a lot higher than they are.

   NBC should be ashamed of wording it like this and farming outrage with images of civilian suffering without providing the full context of why Gaza is in this state to begin with.

9. It’s a horrible cycle. Israel says “this is safe”. Hamas promptly uses the stated area, rendering it no longer safe, Israel shoots back, civilians get caught in the crossfire