You can't just pick one incident and compare it, since the Hamas attack, Israel has already killed more civilians than Hamas did. It's irrelevant if they did it in a single attack on a hospital or not. And I'm not even picking sides, and this hospital event is too fresh for me to believe anything one way or the other. Still a weird thing to defend, though.
Whoever bombed a hospital, and whether intentional or accidental, should be totally condemned.
Israel has already killed more civilians than Hamas did
Have they? Where exactly are those numbers coming from? That said, I'll gladly accept the claim arguendo. The difference is that 100% of Hamas civilian killings were intentional, while 100% or close to it of Israeli were unintentional - and thus not war crimes, assuming proportionality is met.
Still a weird thing to defend, though.
I don't see it as defending anything, but rather, explaining what war crimes are and aren't.
Whoever bombed a hospital, and whether intentional or accidental, should be totally condemned.
Agreed. But if a hospital is used as a military base, it is a legitimate military target, and the war crime is on those using it as a human shield.
You can't just pick one incident and compare it, since the Hamas attack, Israel has already killed more civilians than Hamas did. It's irrelevant if they did it in a single attack on a hospital or not. And I'm not even picking sides, and this hospital event is too fresh for me to believe anything one way or the other. Still a weird thing to defend, though.
Whoever bombed a hospital, and whether intentional or accidental, should be totally condemned.
Have they? Where exactly are those numbers coming from? That said, I'll gladly accept the claim arguendo. The difference is that 100% of Hamas civilian killings were intentional, while 100% or close to it of Israeli were unintentional - and thus not war crimes, assuming proportionality is met.
I don't see it as defending anything, but rather, explaining what war crimes are and aren't.
Agreed. But if a hospital is used as a military base, it is a legitimate military target, and the war crime is on those using it as a human shield.