"There is no way they could have been considered combatants," said one writer and analyst. "This is unreal."

Adding to the mountain of evidence that Israel is engaged in a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, Al Jazeera on Thursday aired footage of what the news outlet reported was an Israeli drone targeting four Palestinians in Khan Younis last month.

Those killed by the unmanned aerial vehicle in the rubble of the southern Gaza city appear to be unarmed teenagers or young men. According to a translation of the coverage, they were not identified in the reporting.

Tariq Kenney-Shawa, Al-Shabaka’s U.S. policy fellow, said: “This is among the worst footage I’ve seen. Not only were these boys clearly unarmed and present no threat whatsoever, but they were struck multiple times even after stumbling/crawling away. There is no way they could have been considered combatants. This is unreal.”

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        8 months ago

        Does it matter? Support or oppose people are being killed by missiles from drones not unkind words tossed from across the ocean.

        • drislands@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          8 months ago

          In the context of the conversation we’re currently having? Yeah it does matter, because the person I was replying to suggested that all Jews support what Israel is doing.

          • Crikeste@lemm.eeEnglish
            71·
            8 months ago

            And some of the strongest critics of Israel I’ve seen throughout all this have been Jewish. Wild to cast their protest to the side and generalize them.

      • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        57·
        8 months ago

        I don’t worry about pissing off white people in America by pointing out the shitty things they collectively were responsible for in the pre civil war era even though not every white person in the 1800s owned slaves or supported slavery.

      • eatthecake@lemmy.worldEnglish
        291·
        8 months ago

        Im starting to think that what a lot of people learned from the holocaust wasn’t ‘never let this happen again’, but ‘never let this happen to the jews again’. The people of gaza are being wiped out because we, the west, can’t hold a Jewish state accountable for their actions, because that might make us nazis in the eyes of morons and their propagandists.

        • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          because that might make us nazis in the eyes of morons and their propagandists.

          You mean the Israeli state?

        • RatBin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          The many faces of totalitarianism; we need to discuss this better, or have representatives who can at very least acknowledge that. By the way, none of these people seem to have at hearth the peace of the region. Until than, our hands are tied.

        • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          Im starting to think that what a lot of people learned from the holocaust

          That always happens when you try to teach a crowd a moral lesson.

          But, to be frank, there were institutional things learned too, culminating in the UN being created. Too bad it wasn’t reformed significantly after decolonization happened, and for the Cold War, and as a result by now it’s completely irrelevant. Its rules are being used to justify things opposite to stated when those rules were written.

      • Evotech@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        8 months ago

        Idk if you have participated in the us political system much but like there’s a lot of Jews

        Going against them and potentially being branded anti-Semitic is political suicide