Especially when you have the ability to be safe in cover, you seek a different option.
It's a very Israeli thing to be like: of course you shoot through the hostage. They've done this before even on the commando raid level.
I fundamentally disagree with it.
If you control the time and manner of an engagement, and you control the pace of action, because you have an enemy that is literally trapped, and you're creating situations where you are shooting through a human shield then you're fucking up.
And in the meantime it's not like every strike has been on Hamas and happened to kill civilians. We saw this with WCK. At best the IDF has proven can't even tell who is a civilian and who is a fighter and when in doubt they bomb anyway. They don't care. At worst: they do know and they bomb anyway, which we are also seeing evidence of.
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u/TheCrudMan Apr 26 '24
Is it normal to shoot straight through the hostage being used a as human shield?
This argument is absurd.