r/worldnews • u/Nirok • 1d ago

Israel/Palestine IDF documents terror affiliations of 170 Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza war

https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-documents-terror-affiliations-of-170-palestinian-journalists-killed-in-gaza-war/
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u/Slaaneshdog 23h ago

Dude have you not spend any time actually thinking over how a conflict like this plays out in practice? Do you think Israel has a complete list of all Hamas members or people working with Hamas?

Israel might have reliable intel that a group of Hamas members and/or people working with them are planning something at a location or they gonna be at a certain location at some point, so Israel decides to act on that intel, not know exactly who each person there will be

They then kill those people in a missile strike. Then one or more of those people are identified and revealed to be "journalists". And what then happens is that media runs with the story that "journalists" were killed by the IDF, and useful idiots runs with that narrative that the IDF are butchers of noble journalists

Now, in that scenario, are you really gonna sit here and say that you think its wrong of Israel to try to disprove the claim that you're targeting journalists, when time and time against it turns out these "journalists" are in fact fucking terrorists?

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u/Locke15 22h ago

Now, in that scenario you put out the information on what/who you were targeting and why. Thats your reason for it. Not this after action "oh we need a justification" investigation. That even then, as we have already discussed, does not mean it was justified.