'A Full-Fledged War Crime': Israel Condemned Over New Human Shield Footage
'A Full-Fledged War Crime': Israel Condemned Over New Human Shield Footage
"These crimes, and dozens of similar cases, require urgent intervention from the international justice system," said one human rights group.
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What proves this footage is really what the article claims it to be? It's a very specific explanation for what appears quite vague.
I just don't want to go sharing something we cannot actually verify as true. There's a lot of other stuff mentioned in the article a lot of which we know to be true, but that isn't proof of this claim.
So you're volunteering to go looking for explosives without drones, weapons, or any other equipment normally given to EOD soldiers? The idea that this footage is normal is ridiculous to anyone whose spent even a second in a western military.
Why isn't it being reported on any other news service than Al Jazeera Arabic and Commom Dreams then? Am indictment against the IDF like this would absolutely be published in Reuters or the AP and many others.
The car hood event is a sample of one. You can't prove a pattern of behavior of a military using human shields with that. That's not how patterns work.
How many examples of using a human shield would you like?
I'm guessing it's whatever there's evidence for, and then one more. After all you're down to nitpicking the subcategories of human shields.
More than one, for a start. The accusation is that there's a pattern. One does not a pattern make.
What exactly is vague about being naked (mostly) with hands tied behind their back while walking through a building? What explanation do you have for such an event?
Something like this could easily be a simple prisoner transfer. This is one idea.
In general, we don't know the where, the why, or the who. Movies have worse scenes than this. Nothing is beyond fabrication. Why were they filming and who posted the video? There are myriad possibilities.
There are already many clear-cut reasons to be critical of Israel, but it should still matter what is actually fact and what is fiction, shouldn't it?
Movies have worse scenes than this.
Heard it here first folks, if it's in a movie, it's not a war crime any more.
I'll say that I mostly agree, it's good to be critical and sceptical, but I do think that defense is well worse than lukewarm. I'd almost say if you treat your prisoners anywhere near as badly as they do in most movies, you're already well into war crime territory.
It's not a defense - I am just expressing how hard it is to really know what's going on. It's a good article though, and Common Dreams despite a strong liberal bias are known for factual reporting. There's a good chance this is real, and that really sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSbWuGSGOBo Here's the video. There's nothing vague about it.
You're kidding me right? This is in Arabic for a start. I don't speak Arabic. It looks on the face of it a vague as before otherwise. Help me out here.
Hang on... So you aren't going to trust a primary source from a country that doesn't speak English, unless said source is in English? The fuck? Of course it's in fucking Arabic, it was filmed in an Arabic-speaking country. Put it through a translator like the rest of the world did.
You can press the closed captions button and click auto translate to English.
It's a magical world out there.
TIL, thanks!
And we can trust what's being said you think?
Yes of course. The narration matches the video evidence.
I posted a translated version yesterday. I will link it below. It took a dip in the internet JPEG fryer so quality is not as great anymore.
It'd be fantastic to not have the dramatic music and narrative overlay and have a translated version of the original footage and any dialogue that's going on. We have Al Jazeera to blame for that though.
Israel using human shields was what bothered me in the video. To each their own.
And yet that's the narrative, not necessarily what is actually going on. There's a reason it's not a story published on Reuters, or AP, or even English Al Jazeera that I can find at least. There's plenty of criticism of Israel in all of these. No reason why they wouldn't run a story with evidence of the IDF using human shields. They ran this story after all.
The Arab version of Al Jazeera publishes the good stuff. English media is censoredwhen it comes to anything NSFW that is not nudity related.
Maybe in terms of visuals, but they will publish the story itself if the evidence is strong. There was the story involving the hood of a car. That one I know is real.
My skepticism here should not be interpreted as some kind of stubbornness to acknowledge the IDF are committing war crimes. They absolutely are.
But I don't think this story is what it looks like, and I am sure Al Jazeera are embellishing a lot of content that is being published on social media.