Israeli military used 500lb bomb in strike on Gaza cafe, fragments reveal | Israel-Gaza war | The Guardian

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1. Is there anything that Israel could do to elicit more than the slightest, weakest, most pussy footed condemnation from the G 7 nations? Just curious like what line is the red one? Hospitals? No. Systemic rape in prisons? No. Child murder? No. Weaponized starvation? No.

   Crazy stuff.

2. Illegal and just another example of the indiscriminate warfare utilized against the people of Gaza. It’s evil and yet people will still come into reddit and claim there is no genocide or that it’s bad eggs.

3. When you admit that you have surveillance, which means you know exactly who is there, which means you know that there are scores of innocent civilians in an area, and yet you still drop a weapon of such indiscriminate destructive capability on that area, you are a fucking terrorist organization. This is willful and intentional murder of civilians with complete disregard for humanity and a level of evil that is unfathomable.

   Fuck the IDF and fuck Israel

4. In the mean time, BBC and other Western media are still focused on Bob Dylan so that people don’t talk about Israeli war crimes. We have always been at war with Eastasia

5. Not wanting to defend Israel and as someone who likes the guardian in general, this article feels somewhat disingenuous with its focus on the weight of the weapon.

   For most western jets 500lbs (aprox 250kg) is the lightest standard aircraft bomb they carry. Most carry individual bombs of up to 2000lbs (aprox 1000kg) and some even larger than that.

   We also know that Israel is getting large amounts of resupply for said larger bombs:

   https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/

   In essence, why focus on the mass of the bomb which was possibly the lightest that Israel was likely to be able too use for an airstrike and not on the fact that they chose to do an airstrike to begin with. ANY airstrike on a civilian location is inherently showing disregard for collateral damage and that choice is more damming and worthy of condemnation than the choice of 500lbs bombs.

6. Well, that’s dented Gaza’s intercontinental ballistic nuclear missile capability. Israelis can sleep easy tonight. (/s, just in case it’s not obvious)

7. This, in fact, is not what people meant, when they are talking about coffee bombs.

   How are actions like these not considered terror bombing? Thing like these and “settler” violence happen on a regular basis, then they get all up in arms when things like Oct 7th happens.

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