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JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 9:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

> You can't blow up entire hospitals and kill patients just because someone's storing stuff in the basement

I believe hospitals lose much of their protection under international law when they’re dual used like this. (There is still proportionality and morality.)


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ceejayozyesterday at 9:24 PM

"Much of" and "all of" are very different things.

thranceyesterday at 9:38 PM

I don't know how much weight the legalist argument holds here, seeing how the IDF has been acting extra-legally for a long while now, but anyway, I seriously doubt that each destroyed hospital and each destroyed school held terrorists. We've seen the IDF target civilians, aid workers and journalists too many times to believe them so easily.